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font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> NAFTAZTC@aol.com
[mailto:NAFTAZTC@aol.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, August 28, 2006 5:58
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b>
lorenavirginiacardona@yahoo.com.ar<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> GOMEZ-PENA @ LA POCHA
NOSTRA CONDUCT PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP IN LOS ANGELES.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=4 color=black face="Arial Narrow"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>GOMEZ-PENA AND LA POCHA NOSTRA CONDUCT PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP IN LOS
ANGELES.<br>
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</span></font></b><font size=4 color=black face="Arial Narrow"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow";color:black'>As part of the <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Latino New Works Festival,</span></i> Highways (Los
Angeles) is pleased to host a creative residency with writer and performance
provocateur, Guillermo Gómez-Peña and his performance troupe, La Pocha Nostra.
This residency involves a free two-day intensive workshop on Monday and
Tuesday, September 11-12, 2006 from 1:00 to 8:00 PM at the Highways Performance
Space in Santa Monica. The workshop will explore the boundaries,
relationships and intersections between contemporary performance practice and
the territories of race, gender, nationality and activist politics.<br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Rituals and Strategies to Decolonize the
Body: <br>
</span></b><br>
Gómez-Peña, Roberto Sifuentes and Violeta Luna, all members of the legendary
Pocha Nostra performance troupe will conduct a two-day intensive workshop on
performance art and the human body as a site for creation. This cross-cultural,
cross-disciplinary and cross-generational workshop is open to a wide range of
art practitioners. <br>
<br>
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Rituals</span></i>, is an intensive two-day
Performance Laboratory exploring creative methodologies around issues of art,
activism and human rights.<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> </span></b>The
Performance Laboratory will use the influential methodologies and ideas behind
Guillermo Gómez-Peña's extraordinary body of work as a stimulus for new
approaches to politically engaged performance-based strategies. <br>
<br>
La Pocha Nostra offers participants a focused framework for their continuing
artistic development by encouraging an awareness of the issues impacting their
practice, and enhancing the range of approaches and skills available to them.
This workshop provides a unique opportunity for artists working in live art and
experimental performance to investigate new models of relationships between
art, activism and human rights.<br>
<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>The Application Process<br>
<br>
</span></b>The workshop intensive is open to performance artists, experimental
actors, dancers, theorists, and students interested in the topics addressed by
Gomez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra. Participants must have a declared interest in
issues of art, activism and human rights, and direct experience of working with
live art and experimental performance practices. Applicants must have some
training and performance experience, and must be familiar with the artists'
work. The workshop is fun but rigorous.<br>
<br>
The Performance Laboratory allows for a maximum of 20 participants selected on
an open application basis. Participants must be able to commit themselves
to the full two days. <br>
<br>
To apply for the Performance Laboratory,<b><span style='font-weight:bold'> </span></b>please
send a half-page statement about the nature of your practice, why you would
like to participate in the laboratory, what you think you can contribute to the
laboratory, and how you think the laboratory will enhance your practice. <br>
<br>
Please include your full contact details including address, landline and mobile
numbers and email address. <br>
<br>
Your statement should be emailed to:<br>
Leo Garcia: </span></font><u><font size=4 color=blue face="Arial Narrow"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow";color:blue'>LeoGarcia@highwaysperformance.org<br>
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</span></font></u><font size=4 color=black face="Arial Narrow"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow";color:black'>For more info
call Highways @ (310) 453-1755.<br>
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