PERFORMANCE LAB

Miami Performance International Festival 

Adam Overton – UploadDownloadPerform: An Introduction to Composing, Performing, and Sharing Experimental Text Scores
Time: June 12 -14, 2013 at 8 pm to 10 pm
Location: Edge Zones Art Projects – 60 NE 39TH ST. | Miami, FL 33237
Website: www.miamiperformancefestival.org
Phone: (305) 303 8852
RSVP: [email protected]
Total Cost: Total cost is $30 in advance or $50 at the door.
Payment method: Paypal
Limited number of participants 14

Description

UploadDownloadPerform will focus on using simple text instructions to generate movement, sound, and experience in performance. The realm of text scores – also sometimes referred to as event scores – are well known in Fluxus (see the work of Yoko Ono, Alison Knowles, et al), experimental music (John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, et al), dance (Simone Forti), and elsewhere, and continues to be a vibrant platform for many artists, performers, and choreographers today! In this workshop we will harness the use of language to describe, implement, and interpret tasks, activities, meditations, and processes to generate experimental performances. Workshop attendees will create their own scores and then witness them performed by others in the group. All scores produced during the workshop will be uploaded to and documented on http://UploadDownloadPerform.net, a free wiki-repository designed to facilitate the sharing of experimental performance scores. The workshop is open to performance artists, composers, sound artists, filmmakers, writers, and other experimental thinkers.

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Peter Grzybowski – The Performing Body
When: June 19 to the 21 at 8 pm to 10 pm
Location: Edge Zones Art Projects – 60 NE 39TH ST. | Miami, FL 33237
Website: www.miamiperformancefestival.org
Phone: (305) 303 8852
Email: [email protected]
Total Cost: Total cost is $30 in advance or $50 at the door.
Limited number of participants 14

Event Description

The Performing Body is an intensive workshop is for artists and students who wish to deepen their artistic process beginning with the body as a place of research. Through a rigorous learning process, this performance art workshop will focus on the body, space and time in solo performance. Using a wide variety of experimental situations, participants will develop skills to communicate through their body and transform ideas into performance. The emphasis will be placed both on solo and group explorations as well as performance process. A public presentation of simultaneous solo performances and group performance will be carried
out by each of the participants in the gallery on the last day of the workshop.

This is a three-day workshop: WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, MAY 15, 16, 17 from 6PM to 8PM. The last day of the workshop will be a performance event open to the public where participants will have an opportunity to show their work. To ensure quality time with the visiting artist SPACE IS LIMITED to 14 participants! To reserve a place in the workshop please email [email protected] . A $30 cost per student.

About Edge Zones
Edge Zones is an artist and volunteer – run contemporary arts non-profit dedicated to the research, conceptualization and execution of events that strengthen the contemporary art environment in Miami. EZ seeks to make contemporary art accessible, to engage audiences and to create a focal point for international research and awareness. Edge Zones is committed to assisting local artists from diverse economic, social, and cultural backgrounds in their creative production and disseminating their professional development in national and international forums by establishing a strong regional exchange network with connected to the rest of the world.

Support
The principal sponsors for the Miami Performance International Festival ‘13 are: Edge Zones (Miami, Florida, USA); The John L. and James S. Knight Foundation; Miami Design District, Miami Dade County-Cultural Affairs Council, Florida State Cultural Affairs Council, Miami Beach Cultural Affairs Council, The Miami Beach Botanical Garden.