Clear Insight Productions - Background

Clear Insight Productions makes theatre, opera, film, music and dance productions that present the opportunity to find wider perspectives and new ways of seeing the world. We develop artistic ventures that create a sense of community, history and shared vision, often offering communities and individuals the chance to participate, as well as witness. Clear Insight Productions has a growing team of collaborators throughout the world who are interested in the role of the arts in creating change.

Mae Cynyrchiadau Gweledigaeth Glir yn gwneud cynyrchiadau theatr, opera, ffilm, cerddoriaeth a dawns sy'n cyflwyno'r cyfle i ddarganfod safbwyntiau ehangach a ffyrdd newydd o edrych ar y byd. o edrych ar y byd. Rydym yn datblygu mentrau artistig sy'n creu naws o gymuned, hanes a gweledigaeth a rennir, yn aml yn cynnig cyfle i gymunedau ac unigolion gyfranogi, yn ogystal â gweld. Mae gan Clear Insight Productions dîm o gydweithwyr sy'n ehangu ac yn fyd-eang a gyda diddordeb yn y modd y gall y celfyddydau greu newid.

Seeing

Anthropologist Victor Turner talked about "communitas" - the ability and power of culture to link people.

Art and culture can make you look and look again.

British poet, print maker and visionary, William Blake perhaps puts it the best,

"To see a world in a Grain of Sand,

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,

And eternity in an hour."

How do we experience the world clearly?

How can we really see?

Art, music, poetry, philosophy and psychology are all ways that we can try to look deeper into the nature of things - searches for truth that aid us in our daily live

"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does." Jorge Luis Borges

Projects

"A Horse Bleeding Shakespeare"

- a song of a space -

- a sketch of a landscape -

- a portrait of a landscape -

" We were a people bred on legends." R. S. Thomas (Welsh Poet)

How to capture the sense of the landscape? What is Wales today? Theatre, music, dance, and video blend in this new opera about our sense of place and sense of national identity.

Performer and director, Deborah Claire Procter (2005 winner of the Creative Wales Award), has been specially researching and developing with an Arts Council of Wales project grant some of these themes, spending a period of time in Tregaron & Uplands, near the Pafiliwn performance space in the midst of magic West Wales. Part of the research involved visiting Tregaron Male Voice choir who meet once a week, singing in Welsh.

The new work has developed into an opera which will be written by composer Oscar Edelstein (Argentina). together with Procter.

Already they have worked together with video dancer Sean Feldman, and performer-director, Jane Lloyd-Francis of Carreg Dressage and found of Equilibre Horse Theatre. After a few days of research and rehearsal at Carreg, they video-ed on Ynyslas beach, accompanied by Georges Dewez (Carreg Dressage).

Clear Insight Production's previous projects

Seapiece (2002)

Over 25 performers in a four hour movement study set on the seawall in Aberystwyth, directed by Deborah Claire Procter with performers from Equilibre Horse Theatre, Dance India Wales, and Gorwellion community group. Also Vikram Ivengar (Katak dancer), Stuart Bowden (Diversions Dance Company), Su Chu Lu (Chinese dance), Sarah Mumford (Contemporary dancer), Jan Davis (Contemporary dancer) and participants from the Centre for Performance Research Summer School.

Yn dathlu symudiad cyso
A celebration of constant motion

Commentaries from audience comments-book: "An extraordinary experience - quite moving! ", "A beautiful & unique experience", "Amazing feat, I watched for 4 hours transfixed", "Most original work", "Evocative!", "Great! Very moving", "Marvellous depiction of people and landscape: very moving."

Rivers and Mirrors: Part I (2007)

A performance by Oscar Edelstein and Deborah Claire Procter for piano, voice and film, based on the idea "to be in the mirror or to cross the river?" Filmed in Buenos Aires in the former national library where Borges worked. The piece made a small tour of the UK in 2007.