CPD At Rubicon 2016

For the first time, Rubicon ran a three day CPD intensive designed to share skills, gain insight, and network with sector leaders in the fields of Dance for Foundation Phase Children, Hard to Reach Groups, and Dance for Dementia Patients.

It was a really interesting three days with completely different subjects and workshop leaders which seemed to work really well whatever your level of experience. There was new information/methods and ideas and also things we had all done many times but good to have a re fresh with a slightly different approach. 

We had about 7-8 organsations and companies attend and several freelance dance leaders so a great mix and people had travelled from west and mid Wales to more local to the south which was great!  Community dance organisations linked to the Wales Wide Training Programme really supported the training programme so thank you to thoe people.  Many thanks to the freelance leaders who came – I really hope the CPD was affordable for you (we were piloting this with no additional funding).

If you haven’t already given me your feedback could you please do so by e mail – a few lines is absolutely perfect so I can pass feedback on to Anna Daly, Paul Bayes Kitcher and Nicola Jacobson. I may use some of the feedback/quotes on Rubicon’s website or social media – please let me know if you would rather I didn’t use yours.  If you could get the feeback to me by Wednesday August 3rd that would be wonderful….thank you!

Best wishes and once again thank you for supporting our Rubicon CPD training programme.  We are hoping to do it again next year so if you have any ideas please let me know!

tracey@rubicondance.co.uk

Rubicon – History

A little while ago while researching the history of the building that is now home to Rubicon, I discovered that under the incarnation of the Casson Theatre, the great British actor Steven Berkoff had performed here.  I wrote to Steven to see if he had any memories – his reply is below:

Metamorphosis 1972
I remember Cardiff quite well really.  I believe we did just under a week there and what a miserable time it was for all of us.  But at least we were touring our own show rather than doing some dreary British play.  I remember most of all that we were found lodging in a CARAVAN, on some dreary site on the edges of Cardiff and never can forget that strange caravan smell of plastic and rotting carpets.  It was cold and dreary and we couldn’t wait to get back to London where we did a season at the Little Hampstead Theatre Club. 

I don’t remember much more that this.  I don’t remember there being much if any contact with the host company which was quite usual in Britain, unlike our experiences abroad where we were welcomed and given hospitality.

Hope this will do and thanks for getting in touch.  Archives are the vital life blood of history.

Steven