[NEohioPAL]NWPL Ohio Workshop 2006

[nwpl at lycos.com]

New World Performance Laboratory will conduct a workshop in Performance Eco=
logy in Akron, Ohio from July 24 through July 30, 2006.  The cost of the wo=
rkshop is $300.  This does not include room and board.  Work sessions will =
take place from 9AM to 1 PM and from 6PM to 10PM each day.  There is a limi=
t of twelve participants.  If you are interested please contact NWPL at nwp=
l at lycos.com

Performance Ecology is Jairo Cuesta's term for a line of research he has co=
nducted since working with Jerzy Grotowski in the Theatre of Sources.  He t=
races the word ecology to its Greek root "oikos," meaning "house," and rela=
tes Performance Ecology to humanity's increasing alienation from the "first=
 house"--the body in its natural environment.  The residential work session=
s in Performance Ecology are designed around the rudimentary performative e=
lements concerning one's humanness and relationship with the physical world=
.  As we enter the post-human age, Jairo Cuesta and James Slowiak have orga=
nized various aspects of their respective research into a flow of detailed =
exercises (individual and collective), songs, dances, texts, and creative w=
ork that serve to reclaim our vital forces and capacity for contact.
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New World Performance Lab members lead participants through the intensive p=
rogram (which usually lasts from three days to ten days) in an attempt to r=
ediscover the urge to act.  As the participant struggles to remember, to re=
veal, to accomplish, and to create, he/she fights for mastery of the body a=
nd voice, vitality and purpose.  Participants express themselves in pattern=
s of voice and movement whose tension, composition, and energy uncover a un=
ique and untamed power and precision.  Performance Ecology seeks to liberat=
e the dormant energy and creative impulses in the participant/performer--in=
 solitude or in company, with the space and with the partner.
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Performance Ecology involves creative training in the basic elements of the=
 actor's craft:  physical exercises, voice work, attention and perception, =
precision and flow, seeing, listening, meeting, and the montage of physical=
 actions.  The work with songs from the Shaker culture and other traditions=
, exercises in coordination, individual actions, structured improvisation, =
dramaturgy, montage, and the acting tools culminates in a Rendering that pr=
ovides the opportunity for each participant to engage in the dyanmics of pe=
rformance.
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Performance Ecology is more than a workshop; it is a performance event that=
 encourages the task of creating culture--hands on.  Cuesta and Slowiak hav=
e fashioned a structural tool that builds community and compassion while ex=
ploring the participant's individuality, creativity, and cultural dignity.


New World Performance Laboratory
James Slowiak
Jairo Cuesta
Co-Artistic Director


New World Performance Laboratory
James Slowiak
Jairo Cuesta
Co-Artistic Director


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