Over to our Learning and Access Officer Laurence Young: ‘We recently completed a project working with students at the University of Salford, creating two new live graphic novels using the methods we pioneered making Airlock, our Culture in Quarantine commission. Over 6 weeks the students were led through an interdisciplinary performance process, learning how […]
Co-Writer and Director of Dr Blood’s Old Travelling Show in conversation with journalist Heather Kincaid (September 2020) When did you have the idea for Dr Blood’s Old Travelling Show? Was it just in response to lockdown or did you want to do something like this anyway? I think in some ways it […]
Here’s your invitation to join us on Thursday 8th October 11am – 12pm for a special online Zoom Q&A from our Learning and Access Officer Laurence Young. We’re back hosting another Zoom Q&A, this time all about our latest touring production Dr Blood’s Old Travelling Show. Come and join members of the company […]
By Laurence Young ‘When I joined imitating the dog as Learning and Access Officer, I was fascinated by our digital magazine; what it already was, and what it could be. Starting out as a fanzine, the magazine was already acting as a kind of archive of work that has already been made, bringing to […]
My country. My house. I’m an actress and theatre educator who lives in a city called Porto Alegre, situated at the extreme south of Latin America in a country called Brasil. A very large country. And it’s common for people around the world to think it is constantly hot and sunny out […]
Here’s your invitation to join us on Friday 15th May for a special online Q&A from our Learning & Access Officer Laurence Young ‘Come and join the imitating the dog company for a special online Q+A. Hosted on Zoom, company members will open with a small talk about the work we’ve been sharing […]
Day 2 By the second day of the exchange, everybody was feeling a little bit more comfortable with each other. The initial ‘nice to meet you’ barriers were down, and we were starting feel more like a group who were working collectively. This notion of belonging was also the starting point for Bradley Smith’s session […]
Day 1 On a rainy a Lancaster Friday, a group of artists shared pizza, drinks and exchanged pleasantries. Fuelled by the community spirit and inspiration provided by Daniel Bye’s Tiny Heroes; this group were meeting to exchange more than just pleasantries, we were meeting to exchange ideas. Last weekend saw imitating the dog and Lancaster […]
Hello, my name’s Marco Turcich and along with my colleague Morven Macbeth I’ve recently had the pleasure of working in Porto Alegre, Brazil as part of the annual international festival Porto Alegre Em Cena. imitating the dog had been asked to hold a 10 day workshop residency ‘Redux – Night of the Living Dead’, culminating […]