WORKSHOPS
THE BODY IN ACTION: PATHS TOWARDS A PERSONAL CARTOGRAPHY
This workshop has been created for artists of performance,
dancers, actors, spoken word or visual artists interested
in performance art and in exploring the intersection of the
personal, the theatrical and the political through stage actions.
Students in these disciplines are also welcome.
Workshop participants will make use of their personal memory
and identity as the expressive territory where they will chart
a vocabulary of stage actions. Drawing on their use of body,
participants will also work on imagery related to their individual
and social understanding of gender, sexuality and race. Some
thematic threads in the workshop include: Body (fiction and
non-fiction, presence and inner strength, body as subject/object;)
Space (internal and external, spatial relationships, the intervention
of public and private space;) Time(real-time, fictional-time,
ritual-time;) Action (site-specific, action – reaction, responses
to real and imagined stimuli, audience interaction, the creative
accident.)
The workshop will culminate in a public presentation of the
individual material generated in class. This public presentation
is optional to the participants.
Who
should apply: Professional or students of performance,
spoken-word, actors, dancers and visual artists. All applicants
should have a basic understanding of the discipline of performance
art.
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