This year, a week of Master Classes in performance arts for students and professionals is being organised as a part of the festival.
The programme will be supplemented. Please send your application (motivation letter and experience max 250 characters) to mara@reriga.lv before 20th of August.
I
Master class series: Body language as a means of expression.
Instructors: Laura Stokes and Codhi Harrell (RICOCHET/USA)
Length of class: 4 x 3 hours
Participants per class: 15
Date and time: 23rd and 24 of August 10.00 – 13.00 and 13.00 – 17.30
Venue: Zirgu Pasts – the Latvian Academy of Culture Theatre House
Target audience: Choreography, contemporary dance, and acting students from the Latvian Academy of Culture and the Latvian Music Academy, professional performance artists who actively use their bodies on stage, circus artists from Latvia and the Baltic States.
Participants can sign up for the entire series or just one class. It is recomended neverthelesss to attend the whole serie.
Performing Realness – 2 classes x 3 hours
Working with artificial, natural, and supernatural materials, this master class is a laboratory that blends contemporary circus, physical theatre, esoteric practices, imagined rituals, rhythm games, installations, contact improvisation, and acrobatics.
Finding inspiration in their personal biographies, as well as inherited mythologies, politics, and nature, participants will search for ways to distinguish the elements that are useful and turn them into tools for their creative practice.
Functional Flexibility) – 3 hour class
Flexibility creates the aesthetic of a performance, increases mobility, and decreases the possibility of injury. Drawing on classical yoga, contemporary therapeutic practices, and the traditional training practices for contortionists, this master class offers a holistic approach oriented toward inner development to help artists improve their flexibility while simultaneously strengthening their tendons and joints.
Flexibility as Choreography – 3 hour class
Using the body as the basis for developing a means of expression for performance, participants will learn how to expand classic flexibility poses and to imbue them with meaning. During this master class participants will study flexibility as a path to deeper psychological understanding, increasing not only an artist’s physical potential, but also his/her creative potential. Participants will learn to view flexibility not merely as a technical achievement, but as a powerful means of expression.
II
Master Class: Partner acrobatics.
Instructors: the duet Kate and Pasi (Finland)
Length of class: 1 x 3 h
Participants in each class: 16
Date and time: 23rd and 24 of August 10.00 – 13.00 and 13.00 – 17.30
Venue: Zirgu Pasts – the Latvian Academy of Culture Theatre House
Target audience: Choreography, contemporary dance, and acting students from the Latvian Academy of Culture and the Latvian Music Academy, professional performance artists who actively use their bodies on stage, circus artists from Latvia and the Baltic States.
The partner acrobatics class will begin with warm-up exercises for individuals and pairs that helps settle into the body and gives a sense of security for work with a partner. During the lesson actors and dancers will learn exercises to prepare the body for acrobatic tricks and will learn basic floor and partner acrobatic movements.
III
Master Class: A moving object in space. Video projection in performance art
Instructor: Kalle Nio (WHS/Finland)
Class length: 4 x 5 hours
Date and time: 21st, 24th, 25th and 26th of August. The times will be confirmed soon.
Venue: Will be confirmed soon
Participants: 15
Target audience: directing and audio-visual arts students from the Culture Academy of Latvia, scenography and visual arts students from the Latvian Academy of Art, professional performance artists who are interested in using projection in their creative work.
Participants are expected to attend classes on all four days.
The goal of the master class is to show and discover the opportunities that are offered by projection and moving images in performance art, as well as to familiarise participants with the basic tools used to create video projections.
The master class will begin with a lecture about moving images in the context of performance art. Participants will be introduced to examples showing how moving images work. Later the participants will be taught
During the master class participants will experiment and create presentations in groups of three. Together participants will have the opportunity to search for new ways of adapting projections to a three-dimensional space and symbiosis with actors (dancers, circus artists) working on stage. At the end of the lesson each group will present the results of their experiments.
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