Fight With a Stick co-artistic director Alex Ferguson brings his interest in studying how spectators understand performance environments by combining the insights of cognitive neuroscience with scenography and performance design to this workshop
Date/Time: May 12 2017, 12:00 am to 4:00 pm
Vancouver, The Dance Centre | Event calendarCost: $40.00
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Registration deadline: Friday May 5, 2017
Alex will introduce the principles of spatial dramaturgy and scenography through a showing of videos on dance, theatre, and installation performance. Then, using objects, lights, sounds, human bodies, and found materials, participants will create short performances informed by these principles and make changes based on his feedback and present them again. In this workshop, Alex is both a co-deviser and an outside eye who draws attention to the way the materials might be used, putting attention on the affects of texture, density, colour, tempo and rhythm of movement of people and objects, as well as the affects of the existing architecture.
Alex Ferguson: Co-Artistic Director
Alex Lazaridis Ferguson is a performance maker with a background in theatre. He has recently directed Nanay: A testimonial Play at PETA in Manila, performed in Penelope by Enda Walsh (Rumble Productions), performed in Bamboozled! (MACHiNENOiSY Dance-theatre). He began collaborating with Steven Hill in 2013 on Der wink. His chief interests are in performance spaces and performance design. Alex has contributed writing on performance to Theatre Research in Canada, Canadian Theatre Review, and Urban Mag (Belgium). He is a regular contributor to RealTime Arts (Sydney, Australia). Alex is a graduate of Studio 58 and Theatre at UBC.
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