[Cwgrad-announcements] FW: GOMEZ-PENA @ LA POCHA NOSTRA CONDUCT PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP IN LOS ANGELES.

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GOMEZ-PENA AND LA POCHA NOSTRA CONDUCT PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP IN LOS ANGELES.

As part of the Latino New Works Festival, 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.

Rituals and Strategies to Decolonize the Body: 

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. 

Rituals, is an intensive two-day Performance Laboratory exploring creative
methodologies around issues of art, activism and human rights. 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. 

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.

The Application Process

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.

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. 

To apply for the Performance Laboratory, 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. 

Please include your full contact details including address, landline and
mobile numbers and email address. 

Your statement should be emailed to:
Leo Garcia: LeoGarcia at highwaysperformance.org

For more info call Highways @ (310) 453-1755.




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