Comfort/Combat Zones, Creative Conflict and the Collaborative Process with Susan Oetgen (composer/performer; NYC). The collaborative creative process frequently challenges us to step directly out of personal ‘comfort zones' into shared ‘combat zones' where our emotional, intellectual and even physical habits are in conflict with those of our colleagues. This workshop explores leadership, goal-setting, and turn-taking, using the tools of improvisation and feedback, to discover and discuss ways of successfully mediating creative conflict in the collaborative process.
POETICS OF PERCEPTION : Improvisational States of Composition, with Kristen Greco (choreographer; San Francisco). Shedding the layers of the daily body and excavating subtle levels perception brings us into fertile ground for composing movement. We will work somatically with sensory systems in the body building solo improvisations and creating individual compositions.
Improvising for Performance- Gesture and Rhythm with David Hurwith (dancer/ creator; Western MA). Using perception and movement, let's work with our habits as vocabulary to make a dance that has a clear flavor. Then we will look at this work, talk about it, and play with it.
movingGROUND training with Krista DeNio (movement theater; Western MA) - a post-modern movement training, for all levels/medium-based artists. Initiating from the core body and the limbs: how do we empower our full range of movement potential? Core-warming, floor movement, upright & upside down movement, flow into partner work. We begin with our relationship to the ground. Pouring into, suspending and extending up and out of, pushing and pulling, we learn to use the supporting surface of the ground underneath us. The ground becomes another body.
Creation in Progress with Katarina Eriksson (dancer/improviser; Bay Area, CA). A class exploring instant creativity using ideas from Contact Improvisation, physical theater, and improvised performance work. We will work in solo, duo, and ensemble scores that give room for the participants' own esthetics, expressions and experiences (personal as well as artistic).
Voice & Movement with Peter Sciscioli (choreographer; NYC). This workshop explores the intricate and integrated connection between the voice and body, and is rooted in my work with artists like Meredith Monk, Jane Comfort and Daria Fain. Accessing the breath/breathing techniques, we move into phonation, annunciation, projection and range exercises that seek to free the natural voice, allowing for ease in sounding, speaking or singing.
Tastes like Sugar with Paige starling Sorvillo (image-sourcing for dance and contemporary
performance; Berlin/San Francisco) introduces an associative sense-sourcing practice to cultivate your synesthetic awareness in improvisation and composition. Hear red. Smell the temperature of dawn. Hold in your hand the sound of time passing. A generative process towards image-making for her new work on ‘being at home' inside the sense of displacement and precariousness that comes with the global mobility.
Sourcework with Daniel Bear Davis (dance theatre; Berlin).
We will engage a dynamic process of springboards and ricochets between different mediums of expression, using them as maps to delve deeper into the imagination and subconscious. Gradually we will create layered structures for performance and improvisation, weaving together image, writing, and movement. Bring a pen. And your inspiration...
Vocal Heresy: Using your voice in brave new ways with Emmy Bean (theater artist/puppeteer/ musician) and Heather Kuhn (concept musician; Ashfield, MA). In this workshop, we will use the whole body to uncover surprising places within us. To identify where we are courageous enough to be completely free to express ourselves vocally. Using song, object work, journaling, movement and sound improvisation, we'll formulate both group and solo performance pieces.
RSVP with Terre Unite Parker (Environmental dance; San Francisco). Based on the work of Lawrence Halprin's The Rsvp Cycles : Creative Processes in the Human Environment, we will discover collective creativity as a blueprint for group scores that are accessible to diverse groups. RSVP (Resources, Score, Valuaction, Performance) is an invaluable resource for performance scoring. We will work to create a process that is even more accessible.
Registration and Fees
Entire Festival (3 Tiers Available):
Student Rate: Economically challenged students and the unemployed: $150
Regular Rate: Employed but struggling (teacher, librarian, lots of kids, etc.): $175
Professional Rate: Actually contributing to your retirement plan (support the arts!): $200
Saturday Full Day (Includes Classes, Meals and Evening Activities): $70
Single Class:
$25
Deposit Required: $70
Arrival Thursday, February 5, after 5 p.m.
Last session ends Sonday evening, February 7
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