Let’s Create - Skills - Art form skills
Art form skills
Most of the artists emphasised the importance of the skills they have acquired in their specific art form.
People talked about the need for art form expertise and competence in order to be able to lead co-created practice effectively.
Some favoured a depth of skills in a particular art form, while others believed that having access to cross art form skills at less depth was preferable as it generated more possibilities to support the creativity of non-professional artists in multiple art forms.
Quotes from the research
“You need to have real competence in your art form and yet not let that dominate the space. You need to know your shit whatever that is. To be trained and knowledgeable in the art form at depth.”
“Cross art form creative skills can just unlock creativity in many different ways. How can you bring a platter of different ways of unlocking all of that with people? Because people respond in different ways to different offers.”
“We have things to teach, that we are in there as experts in what we do. Everyone's in there as an expert of what they do, right. But the thing you bring is the skill in your art form.“
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Conrad Murray is an award winning (OFFIE Award, Pick of The Fringe, The Arts Foundation Nominee, Fringe First) theatre-maker, writer, director, actor, performer, rapper, beatboxer, live looper and singer. Raised in Mitcham, South-West London, He is passionate about making work through hip hop and beatbox theatre. Within his work, he has used his Anglo Indian working class heritage to address issues such as class, race and heritage.
He is the founder and Artistic Director of the BAC Beatbox Academy - which is resident at the Battersea Arts Centre. since 2008.
In 2023 he was Musical director and composer/ lyricist for Michael Rosen’s Unexpected Twist. The play text published in 2023 on Methuen. He authored his first two books in 2022 - a book on Hip Hop theatre titled ‘Making Hip hop Theatre ‘ , And a trilogy of his plays ‘Beats & Elements - A hip hop theatre trilogy’ with Katie Beswick for Methuen Drama /Bloomsbury.
