SLOW TRAINING FOR EMBODIED PROJECTS
Certification Program
Zero Performance™ offers the Slow Training for Embodied Projects. This training is designed to aid creative individuals in grounding their artistic development in physical practice; to fully embody their desired expression; and to facilitate communication with audiences at the deepest levels of experience.
The Slow Training offers a set of psycho-physical experiences which facilitate articulate physicality and conceptual precision toward the development of a wide range of artistic, performative practices.
The Training is committed to developing new sites for performance and communities which will support and be enriched by embedded artistic practice. Students are invited and empowered to develop their own artistic/performance objectives.
The Certification Program is based on completion of all 5 concentrations (below) and a Final Project. The entire program is completed in 2 to 4 years.
Concentration 1: Space in the Body
Participants are invited to listen and to sense movement in a continuum of body and mind. Presence plays among interior spaces, to dance in, between and through. Attention to perception is encouraged in a deepening through the body systems: cells, fluids, bones, muscles, and organs awaken experience of the interior spaces.
Elements:
- Articulation of the Solo Body
- The Continuum of Body and Mind
- Embodiment of the Interior Spaces
- Presence as Consciousness of the Interior
Concentration 2: Body in Space
a grounding in the interior, awareness opens to outer space. Movement possibilities expand in improvisation. The geometry of the exterior, together with natural laws, are assimilated and juxtaposed with the space of the body. Space is composed in the conscious entering in to relationship with self, others, and the containing environment.
Elements:
- The Geometry of the Exterior
- Embodiment of the Exterior
- Consciousness as Space
- Space as Container of the Body
Concentration 3: Sensing Relationships
The body as active principle in shaping the environment. Here we explore the role of the senses in the organization of experience. Sense perceptions become the source of kinesthetic impulse and the motivation to establish and extend relationship to other bodies in space. Consciousness of relationship opens the doorway to composition.
Elements:
- Senses and the Organization of Experience
- Senses and Relationship to other Bodies
- Integration of the Interior and the Exterior
- Awareness of relationship and the beginnings compositional mind
Concentration 4: Site and Performance
The body and space within and beyond the confines of traditional studio and theatrical settings. In this Concentration we will work with the following concepts:
- Site as living, changing environment relative to performers and audiences;
- Site as the container of the collective consciousness of performers and audiences; and
- The space of performance is the collective creation of audiences and performers in the specific environment of the site.
Elements:
- Body and Landscape
- Body and Architecture
- Body and Public Space
- Body and Theatrical Space
Concentration 5: Presence, Absence, Transcendence*
*This concentration is for experienced students, available after completion of 100 Workshop hours.
The body is a site of transcendental experience. The physicality of the body is the point of departure and the entryway to subtle experience. Elusive physiological and architectural spaces are experienced, identified, contained, and expanded in improvisational practice, both organic and conceptual. The solo body and the ensemble are mutually reflective and clarified in composition lived as the moment order and the possibility of pattern, arises. Absence, presence, emptiness, fullness, and the liminal are defined in relation to physical and psychic states which are the flesh clothing the scaffold of our solo and collective practice.
Elements:
- The Presence of Absence
- Identification of the Moment
- Relationship as Embodied Context
- Embodiment as Transcendence
Integrative Projects
Each student is asked to develop and complete an independent project in response to each of the above concentrations. It is suggested that students receive approval and begin work on their projects after partial completion of the concentration. Upon completion, sharing and evaluation of the Integrative Project the student receives full credit for the Concentration.
Final Project
After completion of all Concentration hours, students present a final creative project, which addresses, integrates and extends their experience of the Training into what will be for the student a new direction. Students are invited to begin work on final projects after completion of 200 concentration hours.Students are awarded certification after presentation and evaluation of final projects, which may be completed any time up to one year after completion of all Concentration hours.