Summer Workshops
dal 2/7/2000 al 3/9/2000
Segnalato da
2/7/2000
Summer Workshops
Summer University, Amsterdam
Once again the AMSU is presenting a range of performing arts, cultural theory, and arts management workshops and seminars, this Summer in Amsterdam and Maastricht. The courses are designed for professional artists, arts managers, academics, who wish to expand their training in their specific or related professions/ field of study.
Once again the AMSU is presenting a range of
performing arts, cultural theory, and arts
management workshops and seminars, this
Summer in Amsterdam and Maastricht. The
courses are designed for professional artists,
arts managers, academics, who wish to expand
their training in their specific or related
professions/ field of study. The AMSU offers a
unique opportunity for international networking
and practical experience with high quality course
leaders and organisation.
Three performing arts workshops are offered
this year;
Manipulation, Performance and Improvisation
with Phelim McDermott, 11 - 16 August,
Amsterdam
In association with Theater Instituut Nederland.
Phelim's work with Improbable Theatre has
taken him around the world with productions
such as 70 Hill Lane and Cultural Industry's
sell-out production of Shockheaded Peter (which
he co-directed), currently to be seen at Adelaide
Festival, Australia, New Zealand Arts Festival,
Hong Kong Arts Festival, World Stages in
Toronto, amongst many other forthcoming tour
dates. Phelim's workshop with the AMSU will
play with improvisation techniques, story-making
and puppetry, using everyday and found
materials to create magic & fantasy from thin air.
People, Body, Space and Performance with
Angie Hiesl, 28 August - 2 September,
Amsterdam
In association with Theater Insituut Nederland.
The German artist Angie Hiesl will be running a
workshop on site-specific theatre/installation
performance, aimed at visual and performing
artists. Working in and around the renown Felix
Meritis building in central Amsterdam, Angie's
workshop will involve the architectural
surroundings, ambience, physical attributes of
the city and will work towards finding new
perspectives and alternative perceptions of
performance-making. Body-work and practical
research will involve participants experimenting
with physical and personal within a space,
turning conventional ways of seeing upside
down.
Dance Improvisations: Systems & Spatial
Techniques with Elizabeth Corbett 3 - 7 July,
Maastricht
In association with Felix Meritis Foundation.
Following the success of last year's event,
renown dance-maker Elizabeth Corbett will once
again be holding a 5 day practical dance
workshop for professional dancers and
choreographers.
The workshop provides an intensive practical
insight into the unique methodologies and
techniques of dance improvisation as practised
by Corbett and developed in the work of William
Forsythe and the Frankfurt Ballet (where Corbett
was soloist). The exploration of systems work is
based on the pioneering work of Rudolf von
Laban and his definition of spatial frames as
'traceforms', within which the dancer can move
harmonically, and serves as a basis for group
dialogue in improvisation.
Elizabeth Corbett is currently teaching at
P.A.R.T.S in Brussels where she has developed
work with Anna Teresa de Keesmaeker and
Rosas. She has also developed new work with
Robert Wilson, and in collaboration with
Amanda Miller, Stephen Petronio amongst
others.
One course is offered in media studies;
Play Station meets Organism: Emulation in a
Cultural Context 1 - 3 September, Amsterdam
In association with Mediamatic Foundation. The
notion of emulation has recently gained new
actuality, for example in game design, artificial
life, sociology, biology and culture. In this
seminar the meaning of emulation in these
different discourses will be discussed, while
exploring emulators and practical uses of
emulation. The first day will focus on popular
discourses in biology and artificial life, the
second on emulation in the context of art,
specifically new media art, and for the third day
computer games and games design will be the
central issue. Playstation meets Organism is
intended for free-floating academics and
joy-stick intellectuals.
Finally AMSU is offering a course in the visual
arts;
The Painters Palette in the 16th and 17th
Century: Pigment Preparation and Painting
Technology 13 - 20 July, Maastricht
In association with the Conservation Institute
Limburg. A series of practical workshops and
lectures will introduce participants to the
preparation of panels, mineral pigments and
organic dye-stuffs. The participants will
experiment with the buildup of paint layers and
the use of different binding media, based on the
examination of old master paintings. This course
is targeted for post-graduate students,
professional art historians and conservation
scientists with a special interest in painting
techniques. Basic manual skills are required but
no specific painting experience is needed.
For more details on applications, and further
information on any of these courses or others,
please contact the Amstersdam-Maastricht
Summer University on tel +31 20 6200225, fax
+31 20 62409368
The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University
P.O. Box 53066
1007 RB AMSTERDAM
The Netherlands
+ 31 20 6200225 Phone
+ 31 20 6249368 Fax