Dr Ildiko Rippel

Senior Drama and Performance Lecturer

Department of Theatre and Film

Contact Details

Ildiko is a performer, writer and lecturer. She is co-founder and artistic director of Anglo-German performance company Zoo Indigo,who create autobiographical performance with a focus on the innovative integration of new technologies. Often combing German and English language, the work examines cultural identity and themes of home and displacement, alongside autobiographical experience of motherhood. With the use of humour, live music and the reprocessing of cultural texts, the company explores the banalities of the everyday juxtaposed with the grandeur of the cinematic.

Ildikó has recently completed a Practice as Research PhD at Lancaster University. The project explored performances of the real and the maternal, involving live video to the performers sleeping children in Zoo Indigos performance Under the Covers (2009).

Ildikó previously worked as a lecturer at De Montfort University, Leicester (Drama and Performing Arts) and at Nottingham Trent University International College (Art and Design).

Qualifications

Lancaster University, PhD Theatre (Completion 2017)
University of Worcester, PGCert, 2014
Nottingham Trent University, MA Performance Art, 2005
De Montfort University, Leicester, BA Theatre, 2001
Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen (Germany), Intermediate Examsin Theatre and Philosophy, 1998

Teaching & Research

Teaching Interests

Devising and Adaptation
Devising productions with students from existing texts, such as novels, films or play texts. For example, in 2015, we adapted Tarantino films through the use of live cameras.
Theatre and Digital Media
Playfully and innovatively exploring technologies in theatre: live cameras, gaming, online performances, 360 video and VR and projection mapping.
European Theatre
European movement based practices and physical theatre, specifically Pina Bausch’s dance-theatre.
Contemporary Practice
Solo work, autobiography, digital practices, durational performance and Live Art.

Research Interests

New technology in contemporary performance
Autobiography in Performance
Walking as a performative practice
Audience interactivity
The performance of ‘the real’
Maternal performance and performance with family

Performance History

Performance Works (with Zoo Indigo)

2018/2019
BRITizenship
A politically charged multi-media cabaret on a Brexit-ridden Britain, exploring European identity. Collating sounds, songs and videos from their countries of origin, Zoo Indigo embark on a performance odyssey, looking for Europe.

Commissioned: Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester
Collaboration with musician Matt Marks
Premiere: November 2019, Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester
Funded by the Arts Council England and the Attenborough Arts Centre.

2017
Celluloid Souls
Interactive multimedia Collaboration with media artist Barret Hodgson and musician Matt Marks
Commissioned: Derby Theatre, In Good Company
Premiere: 7 October 2017, Nottingham Playhouse
Funded by Arts Council England

2016
No Woman’s Land (Performance)
Multimedia Collaboration with media artist Barret Hodgson and musician Matt Marks
Work in Progress presented at Camden People’s Theatre, London
Commissioned: Derby Theatre, In Good Company; Premiere: November 2016
Funded by Arts Council England
Touring in the UK in 2017/2018

No Woman’s Land (Film)
By Tom Walsh in collaboration with Zoo Indigo
Premiered: Nottingham European Theatre Festival, June 2016
Touring to festivals in the UK 2016/2017

2015
No Woman’s Land (Research)
Autobiographical Performance Walk
Commissioned: Derby Theatre, In Good Company
Funded by Arts Council England

2012-2014
Blueprint
Multimedia theatre/science collaboration
Commissioned: Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham; premiere: 28 April 2012
Funded: Arts Council England
Touring in the UK in 2012/2013

Flat Out
Street Performance
Commissioned: hatch, Nottingham. Presented at Hazard, Manchester

2011
Circle Symphony
Site-specific durational project at Nottingham Playhouse; part of NEAT11 festival
Commissioned: Nottingham Playhouse
Funded: Arts Council England

2009-2012
Under the Covers
Multimedia performance
Collaboration with ventmedia
Commissioned: HATCH, Arts Council England
Premiered at Forest Fringe (Edinburgh);
Funded: Arts Council Englam

For previous work please visit the Zoo Indigo website

Publications and Conferences

Forthcoming

Rippel, Ildikó and Garton, Rosie (2019) ‘Great Escapes: Kinesthetic Empathy and the Maternal Migrant Body in the Performance Walk No Woman’s Land’ (working title), in Yana Meerzon and Katharina Pewny [eds.] Dramaturgy of Migration: Staging Multicultural Encounters in Contemporary Theatre, Routledge (December 2019)

Publications

Rippel, Ildikó and Garton, Rosie (2017) ‘Maternal Raptures/Ruptures’, Performance Research Journal, 22:4, 36-43

Rippel, Ildikó and Garton, Rosie (2016) ‘Constructing Performance’, The Drawing Board, available online

Rippel, Ildikó and Garton, Rosie (2016) ‘Fantasizing Motherhood’ Live Art and the Maternal (Study Room), LADA, online

Rippel, Ildikó and Garton, Rosie (2011) ‘This is now, this is Live’ Body, Space and Technology Journal, online

Conference Presentations

No Woman’s Land (Practice as Research Presentation)

INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR THEATRE RESEARCH (IFTR) conference Belgrade University of Arts, Serbia, July 2018

No Woman’s Land (Performance Lecture)

INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR THEATRE RESEARCH (IFTR) conference Universidade de São Paulo (USP), July 2017

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CULTURE, COMMUNICATION AND TRANSNATIONAL SOCIETIES Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, February 2016

Blueprint/Fragments (Performance Lecture)

THE BODY IN 20TH CENTURY THEATRE Conference De Montfort University, June 2013

A PLACE, A SPACE Conference University of Worcester, June 2012

This is Now, this is Live (Performance lecture)

PLAY-PERFORM-PARTICIPATE.
Bi-annual Conference of the International Society for Intermedial Studies
Utrecht University, April 2015

CINEMA IN THEATRE
International Conference, University of Lyon 2, December 2014

JOURNEYS ACROSS MEDIA (JAM)
University of Reading, March 2010

(RE)PERFORMING THE POSTHUMAN
University of Sussex, Brighton, May 2010

DRHA CONFERENCE
Brunel University, September 2010

PERFORMING PRESENCE – FROM THE REAL TO THE VIRTUAL
University of Exeter, March 2009

Professional Bodies

Membership of Professional Bodies

International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), member of Performance as Research working group

The Theatre & Performance Research Association (TaPRA), member of New Technologies working group