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Dateline: 4th May, 2004 Boilerhouse Gets European Funding Scottish performance company Boilerhouse has announced that its forthcoming co-production with French street theatre company Metalovoice has been awarded funding by the European arts consortium IN-SITU. The collaboration will premiere at BIG In Falkirk, Scotland's National Street Arts Festival, in May 2005. The production, provisionally titled 3600", will take the form of large-scale outdoor event which explores perceptions of time - in particular, what can happen in the space of a single hour. During the summer of 2005, it will tour to festivals around Europe, including those which make up the IN-SITU consortium. Set up in 2002 with the involvement of six European arts organisations, the group's purpose is to promote and fund pan-European projects over a 3-year period. Neil Butler, director of Glasgow-based UZ Events which hosts BIG In Falkirk and is an IN-SITU partner, said, "BIG In Falkirk is continuing to develop its reputation as one of Europe's key commissioning festivals, so we are absolutely delighted to welcome back this major Scottish company to next year's event, and to host the premiere of such a pioneering collaboration." As part of an ongoing move to take its unique large-scale work to an international level, Edinburgh-based Boilerhouse has already started work on the collaboration with the French street theatre company. At an initial encounter in 2001, Artistic Director Paul Pinson and Pascal Dores, his opposite number in the French company, discovered that they shared similar passions with regards to their work. Over the past year, the two have continued to meet, and forge the core creative idea for the co-production. Commenting on the project, Paul Pinson said, "We are absolutely thrilled with this award for 3600". The support of IN-SITU is an affirmation of the collaborative heart of the project. To embark upon a journey to make a new piece of theatre is always a challenge, but this is even more so, as we have no shared language. However we do have the same desire - to create a show that is uplifting, universal and bursting at the seams, a piece of theatre that shows the combined strength and vision of both companies." Pascal Dores, Artistic Director of Metalovoice, added, "We are still at the evolutionary stage, and already I'm finding this collaboration a very exciting prospect. Not only exciting, but also mutually beneficial, potentially complex and very interesting!" Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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