Christine Fentz - Artistic Director of Secret Hotel, Denmark

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

I've always thought of the outmost Western part of Europe - Aberystwyth - as one of the most coolest places in a cultural sense!

Solely because of how the Center for Performance Research in Aberystwyth always is absolutely on the beat or even ahead of what's Important, Groundbreaking or super-Inspiring work in the stage arts on this planet.

Almost each time a new publication comes or a new call for a workshop or other activity arrives before my eyes, I'm impressed how CPR is always making me wish I could attend all they do, read all they publish and know all the knowledge they administer, collect, make happen and disseminate. And this ability to being both up-dated and masters in in-depth research is nota bene not just something that's come with the internet. The net is just a new tool for their curiosity and impressive work of connecting the right artists with the right researchers, etc.
When the innovation of stage art is in question, you set out on voyages without a known goal. This is how new islands of art can be found; as a parallel world to the concrete globe that is already mapped. Such traveling needs an ongoing translation of the new languages that are found or developed. This is research. And with an ongoing - and long - tradition of serious research in stage art and it's practices, CPR have had and still has immense effect on the thinking of and innovative approaches to stage art for more artists in Europe and beyond than you wanna use your time counting.

Good art and art of the future can only be explored and invented without any pressure of production and presenting - and good frames for such work and research voyages without defined goals can only exist within it's contrast: Secure financial and organizational framework.
The organisation exists;

CPR. The financial support is not only supporting some-center-in-Western-Wales - it supports the work of international artists and researches, who would be left almost alone & without important vitamins, if CPR stopped to exist on a regular, secure basis.

With the hope of a stable future for the work of Center for Performance Research, Wales

Yours sincerely

Christine Fentz

Director & Dramaturge (MA), Artistic Director of Secret Hotel, Denmark