Stefan Pente & William Locke Wheeler, performance e installazione: Drawing for Witnesses (Are they dead? no they're just frozen.), crediti immagine: Andrea Thal, 2013
WORKSHOP
Villa Romana
presenta
Through Rituals (Make. It. Happen.)
Workshop
Stefan Pente and William Locke Wheeler
Villa Romana
via Senese 68, Firenze
8th - 9th of December 2017, Villa Romana
Workshop held by Stefan Pente (visual artist, performer, Villa Romana Fellow 2017) and
William Locke Wheeler (Visual Artist, Performer and Professor, BA Dance, Context, Choreography, Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin)
Deadline for subscription: 6 December 2017
Pavillon, Villa Romana
“This two-day workshop invites participants (artists, students, performers, etc.) to explore ritual as performative practice. We (Pente and Wheeler) understand rituals in our artistic practice not as routines or traditions, but as artistic events whose purpose can be to bring change and transformation, to summon and conjure, to remember, to complicate and confuse and cleanse, and to address specific cultural and social situations that speak to us. We use ritual to speak back. Ritual can be rehearsed, improvised, choreographed, precariously repeated, done only once. To engage with ritual means to ask: What is the specific purpose of our action? Why does an image (picture, memory, witnessed event, etc.) speak to us, move us, resonate in us? Why does the “dancer” dance? What movement is evoked by being moved, and where does its propulsion come from? What powers lie in objects, spaces, and places and how can they be harnessed performatively?
We will propose a variety of exercises for body, choreography, writing, and discussion. Individual participants will have a chance to realize their ideas by activating and directing others in the group. Participants are asked to bring ideas, questions, and materials that they wish to utilize and address performatively.”
The workshop will be held in English.
Schedule:
December 8th
10:00 – 13:00 work
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 18:00 work, including group discussion
December 9th
10:00 – 13:00 work
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 18:00 work
18:00 – 19:00 break/prepare for showings
19:00 – 20/21:00 – presentations and feedback/discussions (open to public)
21:00 – Dinner
To register, please contact us on facebook or send a message to: office@villaromana.org
Deadline for subscription: 6 December 2017
This project was carried out within the context of Toscana in Contemporanea e Giovani sì, supported by di Regione Toscana.
