As part of the creation and presentation of THE PEOPLE in Portland, Big Art Group is offering a free 3 day workshop in the company’s training and compositional strategies with technology and the body. Open to people with or without previous performance training.
Hybrid Body / Simultaneous Presence
A 3 day workshop September 1-3, 2011 at Washington High School (SE Stark)from 1-5pm
1. an introduction of Big Art Group’s Performance Practice (Real Time Film)
2. training and introduction to technology and concepts
3. time-limited studio compositional exercises
4. expansion of dramaturgy to the wider scope of THE PEOPLE
5. large group 4 channel compositions based on the themes of the project to be recorded and included in Big ART Group/PICA THE PEOPLE-Portland production September 6-8. (Attendance not required)
-Real Time Film; Task Based Choreography, or training the body for simultaneous presence. Movement based training in awareness of the video camera and its frame; learning multiple presence, or how to accomplish overlapping performance goals through moment-to-moment acting; dramaturgy of the Image; technical discussions about evolutions in image technology and the use of technology in performance.
-Video Puppetry; Radical Exchangeability; Queering Character: creating a character that exists only as an assemblage of the effort of several actors. Working as a group, exchanging control, and thinking as a cyborg. “Queer” used as a model for thinking beyond boundaries.
-Subverting Disposability- constructing performance from socially discarded objects, ideas, and stories. Constructing sets from trash, examining the role of “Junk Fiction.”
Caden Manson is Editor In Chief and Curator of Contemporary Performance Network and co-founder and artistic director of Big Art Group, a New York City performance company founded in 1999.
