Sunday May 19th, 6-9pm
SolArt Center, 6 Byers St, Staunton, Virginia
Cover: Pay What You Can, Suggested: $20
Instagram: @perform_lab_workshop
Welcome to you -- performers of "other" ilks -- to the Performance Lab + Workshop to be held at Sol Art Center, 6 Byers St, Staunton, on Sunday May 19th, 6-9pm, a monthly series for performers looking to both hone their work and add skills to their toolbox. The Lab + Workshops was conceptualized in response to a lack of spaces for non-traditional performers to show works in progress & sharpen their performances in the Shenandoah Valley.
Each gathering will feature a 45-60 minute performance workshop followed by 90 minutes of performance works-in-progress presented by folks who reserved a space beforehand through this form. Your patience and email addresses are a wonderful way to stay connected. The Lab is open to performers making new and/or innovative work in performance art, dance, choreography, sound, music, film, drag, performance poetry, and experimental theater. Please sign up to perform for the Lab by Wednesday, May 15th. If we have "too many" performers (how glorious!!) or if folks sign up after May 15th, you'll be put on a wait list and prioritized for the next Lab + Workshop. The Workshop offers a space to drop into a practice brought by an experienced teacher or trained performer in the areas of dance, movement, voice, public speaking, comedy, and other skills in order to nurture and strengthen performance presence and awareness. The Workshop will last roughly 45-55 minutes. We encourage all workshop participants to engage by observing and, if invited, providing feedback on the pieces shared. Your input helps inspire performers to keep refining and nurturing their work. Our first workshop will be movement-based and presented by ecosomatic practitioner, Victoria Maria. Participation in the Workshop is Pay What You Can via Venmo or in cash dollaz. We suggest you offer $5-$40. 70% of the donations go to the facilitator, 10% for administration of the event, and 20% to SolArt. Performance Lab + Workshop is offered with input from Rachel Austin, Wild Altar Farmstead, Bonner Odell, Steven's Home Services, and SolArt Center. |
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Preparing the Bodymind Using Butoh and Ecosomatics
Facilitated by Victoria Moyer In this short session, I offer a series of movement practices drawn largely from the fields of Butoh dance and ecosomatics. I frame the curated practices as a mode of preparation, in which we cultivate: increased physical capacity, readiness to respond to improvisational stimuli, availability to integrate communications from the nonhuman world, openings in channels of awareness and perception, and a dynamically expanded range of creative embodiment possibilities.
About Victoria: As an ecosomatic practitioner, Victoria studies the inherent bonds between human and earth bodies and walks bridges of feeling between inner and outer landscapes. Her work in the fields of ecology/horticulture, therapeutic support, and art-making greatly inform one another. Her artistic career has especially focused on devised theatre, butoh dance, and immersive/experimental/social modes of artmaking. Some documentation of her previous artistic projects, current teaching engagements, and lineage of teachers and styles can be found on the website www.bodymettaspore.com. |