Memo of APB Directors’ Conference on the Sept. Vietnam Event

 

Time: April 21, 2013

Place: Shanghai Theatre Academy

Participants: Beijing’s National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Shanghai Theatre Academy, Ateneo de Manila University, Institute Seni Indonesia – Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, School of Arts, Korea National University of the Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.

 

Most schools (Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Manila, Yogyakarta, Malaysia, Singapore, Bankok) are committed to participating in the festival in Vietnam in September 2013, Korea and Taipei are tentatively committed, depending on the infomation they need from Vietnam.

 

May 10 is the dead-line for Duong to give detailed info on:

 

- Place of the festival (We generally prefer Hanoi/Ho Chi Minh City to Quy Nhon, for easier and less expensive travel, if all other factors are similar.)

- Aproximate price per extra participant

- Specific dates for the festival. Is Sep 1 the day of arrival or the first day of the festival?

 

       All participating schools should submit proposals for workshops and send them to Duong and the APB mailing list May 10-15, including a short description, name of the instructor and some photos.

 

      Suggested guidelines or considerations for our APB festival

 

- The most important is the intermingle between the students (no competitive stress).

 

- Time frame,  6 days including arrival and departure, 4 full days.

 

- 6 people, normally including 4 students 2 teachers, if you send more each school will have to pay themselves.

 

- Creating a final show together. One suggestion is to create three or four groups each performing one part. Different teachers could monitor the different groups.

 

- Performances first and then workshops in order to take some stress off of the participating students.

 

- A school directors’ meeting

 

- Common morning exercise in local, traditional style.

 

- Do we need to set the length of each production, 1 hour or up to 90 minutes? We can wait till we know for sure how many schools and shows will be there.

 

- Papers? Academical Papers or papers on practical techniques/ training. A seminar or conference of papers?

- Half a day to present student papers? E-publication?