2001-05-27 - Bulgaria
Summer Academy for Performing Arts – Sofia’01
interdisciplinary educational platform for professional communication between independently working artists in the field of performing arts and its broad contemporary definition from the Balkan region and the region of Central and Eastern Europe.
Sofia, Bulgaria - 2001/07/16 - 2001/08/07
This project is especially oriented to:
researchers, practitioners, theoreticians and managers in the field of contemporary theatre and dance; advanced students in acting, dance theatre, visual performance, stage design, art management and architecture; young emerging professionals in the field of movement and physical theatre, dance, visual performance, up-coming art managers, active in the cultural field of the region.
It consists of two main modules - practical and theoretical one.
In the frame of practical module there are two practical courses dealing with TECHNIQES and METHODS in Performing Arts. In the frame of theoretical module there is a workshop in psychodrama of fairy-tales, myths and dreams dealing with THEORIES in Performing Arts.
Techniques in Performing Arts - courses
The courses in this field explore the possibilities given by different techniques in the performing arts as a meaning of the creative statement.
FELDENKRAIS FOR PERFORMERS course with Livia Calice, Austria /16-22 July/
WHITE BUTOH (The Intensity of Emptiness) with Masaki Iwana, Japan /23-30 July/
LABAN TECHNIQUE (the course is still to be confirmed) with Rosemary Brandt, UK /1-7 August/
Theories in Performing Arts - courses
The course in this field explore the possibilities given by different instruments, communicative and artistic, in the field of social and artistic practices and how and whether they could be connected.
PSYCHODRAMA OF FAIRY-TALES, MYTHS AND DREAMS with David Ieroham, Bulgaria /23-30 July/
Methods in Performing Arts - courses
The course in this field makes entire integrity to the topics of the other part of the curriculum of the Summer Academy.
BODIES & TIME (STICK MAN) with Vazkressia Vicharova and Zarko Ouzounov, Bulgaria /1-7 August/
APPLICATION AND REGISTRATION
The information for the project can be copied and distributed among other interested in participation. The applicants should return their application forms, recommendation letters and passport photos by Monday, June 18, 2001 to the Soros sCenre for the Arts-Sofia by post, fax or e-mail.
SCHOLARSHIPS
Each participant gets a scholarship.
The scholarship covers the accommodation, meals and round trip ticket for participants from Central and Eastern Europe, former Soviet Union countries and Central Asia countries.
The scholarship for the participants from Western Europe and outside Europe countries covers the accommodation, meals and part of the round trip ticket.
PARTICIPATION FEE
The participation fee is not included in the scholarship. The selected participants should transfer the participation fee of $25 US (twenty five American dollars) to the SCA bank account not later than by 2nd of July.
Organizer: Soros Centre for the Arts – Sofia
address:
19, Angel Kanchev st., Sofia 1000 – Bulgaria
Tel. / Fax (+ 359 2) 980 02 44 / 980 49 24
E-mail: sapa_sofia@sca.osf.bg
http://www.sapa-sofia.org

Source: Soros Centre for the Arts – Sofia by Stanislav Stanev - Director