Event Details
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Darkness Visible: 30 artist participants, 7 facilitators, 9 immersive workshop days which will include critiques, one-on-one meetings, themed seminar days, lectures, and a finals pageant.
Athens, Greece, 19–27/04/ 2023.
This 9 days intensive will hold a multi-faceted vision of how performance can be embodied. We will work to develop your practice and build context. We will strongly encourage a research-based practice, and through teaching and experiential workshops we will look at the structure of opera, greek tragedy, passion plays, psychic surgery, burlesque, live sex show, corporal punishment, mortification of the flesh. We will engage with a measure of psychobabble, “archetype work”, certain expressions of catharsis, query, and philosophical ideas, the polemic.
In this process we hope we can all enter the double mode of orchestrating our own work and being present and bodies and talent to support each others work during this time.
Additionally we will come together on a few themes, such as an inter-departmental “accessing ecstasy” day, which will be the theme of our finals pageant. We will have sessions for all, as well as breakaway sessions and research/development times. Finally, we will end the workshop in a structured pageant, free and open to the public.
Ron Athey: research and development consultation on overall projects, automatism, performing ecstasy and other altered states
I’ve been making performance work (in all directions from actionism, solo work, vocal/sound, movement, theater) since 1980. I am interested in how to bring the unseen and unfelt to life on ‘stage’ and what that means. Performance is a ghetto in the ghetto of non blue-chip art, and such, i’m a huge believe in self-producing, DIY, collectives, etc. We will look at bypassing the gatekeepers.
Hermes Pittakos: character development/masking/prop making
Federica Dauri / performance artist, choreographer, and visual artist.
Juliana Snapper / Operatic Voice Coach, voice research.
Diana Torres: sexuality in performance, ethics in performance, poetic voice, body voice.
Michele Occelli/ Hypnosis and group trance, accessing the unconscious, mind/body communication.
