From 1997 to 2003 Pan Pan produced the Dublin International Theatre Symposium, a unique and dynamic programme of talks, workshops, demonstration-performances and full productions.

The Symposium gave an Irish audience the chance to engage with a variety of styles, approaches and viewpoints in contemporary theatre from Europe and further afield, allowing space for discussion and engagement with the theatre artists through the workshop and talks programmes and through the demonstration-performances, giving an insight into the varied creation processes. Symposia 1 – 4 included an open plenary session on the final day where the audience and participants were welcome to discuss the week.

4th Symposium Participants

ArtsLab, Ireland
Talk about Macalla Para Manana (Echo for Tomorrow) – a collaboration between artists in Ireland, Navarre and Catalunya.

Bedrock Productions, Ireland
www.bedrockproductions.com
Demonstration-performance of Request Programme by Franz Kaver-Kratz

Blue Raincoat Theatre Company, Ireland
www.blueraincoat.com
2 day workshop on the disciplines of Corporeal Mime, Viewpoints Training and Suzuki Method.

Corcadorca, Ireland
www.corcadorca.com
5 day workshop with Liam Heffernan developing the text of Noose by Jerry Twomey
Demonstration-performance of Noose based on the material created in the workshop

The Corn Exchange, Ireland
www.cornexchange.ie
Performance of Foley

Forced Entertainment, UK
www.forcedentertainment.com
Performance of Speak Bitterness
Performance of Quizoola
1 day workshop with members of the company
Talk with members of the company on their work

Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Ireland
www.irishmoderndancetheatre.com
Demonstration-performance of Rough Air
2 day workshop led by John Scott and company members

Loose Canon, Ireland
4 day workshop led by Jason Byrne and members of the company on techniques of physical and vocal training

Pan Pan Theatre, Ireland
Performance of Standoffish
Demonstration-performance of new work Deflowerfucked

Il Pudore Bene in Vista, Italy and Andreas Staudinger, Austria
www.andreas-staudinger.at
Performance of Camera Echo (world premiere commissioned by the Dublin International Theatre Symposium)
2 day workshop with Fabrizio Crisafulli

Ridiculusmus, UK
www.ridiculusmus.com
Performance of Yes, Yes, Yes
Performance of Say Nothing
1 day workshop on devising with the company
Talk with Jon Hough and David Woods on the work of the company

Théâtre du Soleil, France
www.theatre-du-soleil.fr
4 day workshop with company member Duccio Bellugi on improvisation with masks
Talk by Duccio Bellugi on the company’s work

Teatr Ósmego Dnia (Theatre of the Eighth Day), Poland
http://osmego.art.pl
Performance of No Man’s Land (version II)
Demonstration-performance by company members of ideas for a new work and their methods of creating performance

Unga Klara, Sweden
http://ungaklara.se
Talk by the actors of the company about their work
3 day workshop on the company’s working process