Performing Arts Conference - some places left
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teachers, students!
There are some places for reduced participation fee - 160 EUR
(the fee includes participation in all conference events,
accommodation and meals).
International Conference
"Performing Arts Training Today"
April 21-24 - Bovec, Slovenia
PROGRAMME: practical workshops, presentations, lectures.
To apply for participation, please send your brief CV/resume with
photo and a cover letter to co...@artuniverse.org
PROGRAMME:
• "Performer's Physicality in the Methods of Meyerhold, M.Chekhov,
Stanislavsky" -
Workshop with Sergei Ostrenko (Russia).
Intensive practical training session. The process will develop in the
form of various practical exercises which progress from simple to
compound. Gradually the group will proceed to group improvisations and
structures. Participants will explore physicality as the principal
creative instrument of a performer, as the key to form, style,
atmosphere and emotional palette in contemporary performance.
• "Dramatic Monologues: Friel and the Greek Example" - Workshop with
Rush Rehm - actor, director, teacher, and Courtney Walsh - actress
(USA).
This is the workshop on the challenges of preparing and performing
long dramatic monologues. Participants will explore the function and
significance of the solo dramatic voice in contemporary drama via its
roots in ancient Greek theater. Using a workshop/performance model,
participants will try to grapple with the challenges facing
contemporary actors and to shed some insight into how these challenges
might be met.
• "Opening Up Inside" - Workshop with Tony Cealy - theatre and arts
practitioner, workshop facilitator and trainer (UK).
Practical workshop exploring effective questioning techniques that
open up discussion for performers and helps participants describe
their thoughts, feelings, and behaviour for personal learning and
greater group cohesion and trust.
• "Study the Culture to Understand the Dance; Study the Dance to
Understand the Culture" - Lectures/demonstrations with Colleen West -
dancer, choreographer, teacher (USA).
The presentation will demonstrate solutions to motivate dancers to
transform the style, mood, and symbolism of a particular culture into
their expression of movement.
The Art Form and Presentation of Tap Dance" - The lecture will give
insight on writing course outlines, creating exams on various topics
for tap such as; composition, improvisation, performance, style,
technique, time analysis, movement analysis, and developing curriculum
for university programs or dance studios.
• "New Paradigms of Performance Matrix: Child development,
apprenticeship, people-specific training, life-long learning, and re-
training for performing in mature years".
"Embodying Ideas - Acting for Dancers, Dancing for Actors: Crossing
disciplines practicum towards a total theater expression" - Workshop
and lecture with Slobodan Dan Paich - dance maker and theater director
(USA).
• No Separation of Church and Dance - presentation with Noelle
Partusch - dancer, choreographer, teacher (USA).
Participants will learn practical skills for creating liturgical dance
for various age groups and experience levels and ideas for
collaborating with clergy and church musicians on incorporating dance
to enhance contemporary and traditional worship experiences.
Programme details:
http://www.artuniverse.org/projects/conf.program.php
Accommodation and venue: http://www.artuniverse.org/projects/Bovec.venue.php
The conference will take place in Bovec, the mountain resort located
in north-western Slovenia in the Julian Alps (near the Austrian and
Italian border). Nearest airports: Ljubljana (Slovenia), Klagenfurt
(Austria), Trieste (Italy).
Accommodation and meals are organized for the group.
Visit the Photo Gallery of the previous events:
http://picasaweb.google.ru/globtheatre