Camposition | Performance Art Intensive

Performance Art Intensive

June 17 - July 26, 2008

Performance Art is the most direct and most explosive medium there is.

The Artist makes ideas and emotions come alive through the free use of their bodies, voices and imagination.

THE PERFORMANCE ART INTENSIVE at Camposition unlocks the full expressive potential of emerging young and dedicated artists as they work to create exciting new Performance Art.

Dates:
June 17, 2008 thru July 26, 2008

Times:
Mondays 10AM - 3PM
Wednesdays 10AM - 3PM
Fridays 10AM - 3PM

FINAL PERFORMANCE:
July 26, 2008

Location:
Camposition Studio
801 SW 3rd Ave. 2nd Floor
Little Havana, FL 33130

Cost:
$650 (scholarships available)

Scholarships:
There are a variety of ways you can receive half price or full tuition waivers for the
Performance Art Intensive, either through a work-study program or through one of our community sponsors. Currently we have 2 full scholarships based on merrit. 2 Work-Study opportunities and 3 scholarships at 50% off. Please contact Octavio Campos for more details at info@camposition.org or Tel. 786-399-7375.

Eligibility:
Students 17 - 25 years old

Pre Requisite:
performing arts experience required - must first go through an interview process with one of the Faculty members

Registration Details:

Interested applicants need to email Octavio Campos at info@camposition.org.
This email should include, name of applicant, age, home address, telephone number, email, and a brief letter of introduction telling us a little bit about yourself and what inspires you to be a performing artist. You may include a resume, artist statement and head shot if you'd like but it is not required for eligibility to the program. Applicants will be notified of acceptance to the program by no later than June 2, 2008.

Registration Deadline:
June 1, 2008 - Only 15 spaces available - The Performance Art Intensive at Camposition is truly trying to design a program with a low student teacher ratio to give each participant an intensive experience.

For more Information about the intensive and to set up an interview appointment
please call - tel. 786-399-7375
or email: info@camposition.org

Octavio Campos - Artistic Director

Courses & Faculty

The Performance Art Intensive will use Yoga, Viewpoints, Alexander Technique, photography and examples from Performance Artists past and present to support the participants work as creative artists. Participants will create their performance pieces, culminating in a showing of work in Camposition's annual Miami Birthday Festival - One-One-Two on July 26, 2008.

Course: Movement Lab Explorations

Movement Lab Explorations is designed to offer students a wide variety of movement experiences that contribute to life-long learning and well-being: including exercises designed to develop mind/body awareness, well-being, flexibility, and strength as a means to
discover and develop personal body intelligence, individual style and essential creative practice techniques. Through the use of Yoga, German tanztheater, Laban, and American modern dance styles, this course will provide a deep psycho physical working knowledge to movement and creativity for the performing artist.

Instructor: Octavio Campos

Octavio Campos has been teaching movement and creative process at the New World School of the Arts since 1995. He studied dance theater and composition at SUNY Purchase, The Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, Folkwang Tanzstudio of Pina Bausch, and the
Lincoln Center Director's Lab . He is the founding Artistic Director of Camposition and has performed, choreographed and directed over 100 original multi disciplinary performances and educational programs throughout Europe, South America and the US. He has served as an
nstructor and consultant for youth programs with the Playground Theatre, Embrace Foundation Girl Power Program, Coconut Grove Playhouse , Dade County Parks and Recreation, Pridelines Youth Services, Hochschule der Kunst Frankfurt, St. Petersburg Musical Hall Russia, Catholic University in Belgium a.o.

Course: Alexander Technique

Alexander Technique shows performers how to change habitual patterns that cause immobility and stress. As a result of using Alexander Technique, many longstanding performance issues, such as, stiff arms, a thrust forward neck or a lack of energy in the legs, are resolved. Discovering how our bodies release, expand and contract allows for grounding and centering, a few inches in height and an understanding of how to work with the whole self. Beginning with a foundation in the Alexander Technique, exploratory activities using Status, Authentic Movement, Neutral Mask and Grotowski technique will offer performers many movement choices and greater trust in risk.

Instructor: Susan Pfeffer

Susan Pfeffer is a performance artist and Alexander Technique teacher. She was certified by the American Center for the Alexander Technique in New York City and is a member of the American Society for the Alexander Technique. Susan has performed with choreographer, Sabine Heubusch, The 4th Door Dance Theater and is a member of Touch Paper with Becky Flowers. She currently teaches in the Theater departments at New World School of the Arts and Florida International University and is an instructor for Arts for Learning. Susan has also taught at Florida Grand Opera, Naples Philharmonic, University of Miami, Hollywood Arts and Culture Center and many other organizations throughout South Florida.

Course: Performance Art History

This workshop will study performance art as a vehicle for artistic expression. This workshop will focus on the trends in art theory and criticism that both sparked and contextualized performance practice. This workshop is designed with the idea that the reading in theory will inform the creative practice and the creative practice will inform and create new theory. An understanding of major currents in art history and theory is important for students seeking to develop their own artistic practice . Weekly sessions will include readings in theory and presentation of artists on the following topics: Art and Life, Acting Re-considered, Body Art, Presentation of Self, Political and Street Theatre, and Theories of Narrative.

Instructor: Becky Flowers

Becky Flowers is a performance artist and educator. She teaches Performance Art at Florida International University and serves as Project Manager for the Field Miami. A graduate from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Florida International University, Ms. Flowers has performed locally at the South Florida Art Center, Miami Light Project, The Frost Museum, Macy's, 801 Projects as well as street and web-based performance. Through her teaching and administrative career, she has worked with diverse populations including outreach programs with homeless teenagers, disabled adults, and Hospice patients. Her academic background includes a focus on art history and aesthetic philosophy.

Course: Viewpoints | Composition

Viewpoint training helps performers translate instinct into eloquent visual images. Through physical improvisation using the Viewpoints participants will develop skills that deepen their ability to respond to other performers and to the onstage environment. Participants will apply what they discover through the Viewpoints by creating and performing short theatrical compositions.

Instructor: Michael Yawney

Michael Yawney was one of the first generation of Viewpoints teachers, having learned the technique directly from their creator, Mary Overlie. Michael has also worked extensively with Anne Bogart, who popularized Viewpoint training. He has directed work seen at New York’s Public Theater, Dixon Place, BMI Musical Theater Workshop, HERE, Downtown Art Co. and Ensemble Studio Theater, Indiana University, and the Pittsburgh Performance Art Festival. He has a BFA from the Experimental Theater Wing of New York University and an MFA from Columbia University, studying with Eugenio Barba, Steve Wangh, Andre Serban, and Kristin Linklater. Currently on the faculty of FIU, Mr. Yawney previously taught workshops for Columbia University, the Minskoff Studios, and The South Florida Theater League. Mr. Yawney was a playwright in residence at New York Stage and Film/Vassar Powerhouse in 2006. His play 1,000 Homosexuals will premeire at the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in November 2008, produced by Camposition.

Course: Digital Video & Photography.

This class will use the camera as a tool for exploring ideas about place and self.
There will be class demostrations and group critiques, each member will investigate on a choosen assigment from the fragment to the general, bringing images and transforming them, the camera and the eyes connected by gestures, words, geography, from the printed images to the most delicate fragment of a dream.

Instructor: Nereida Garcia Ferraz

Born in Havana, Cuba. Currently resides in Miami, Florida. Garcia-Ferraz graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson Traveling Fellowship. She has received the National Endowment for the Arts (1985, 1989) and the Illinois Art Council, Visual Arts Fellowship (1985,1989), Co-produced the award winner documentary “Fuego the Tierra” about the life and works of the Ana Mendieta. Her artworks are in major private and public collections, has taught at San Francisco Art Institute Richard Diebenkorn Fellowship Her visual work has been included in numerous exhibitions throughout the United States, Latin America and Europe. Exhibitions of Garcia-Ferraz's work include, Here and There. “Deterritorializing Havana and Miami”, ,at Stonehill College, Boston, Beyond Havana, Bettcher Gallery , Miami, Miami Ver para Creer, at MACLA, San Jose, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, American Voices, Smithsonian Museum Washington,1945-1995 ART IN CHICAGO, Museum of Contemporary Art, FOCI, State of Illinois Museum and many others