Co-presented by:
MOVING WHEEL and Centre for Community Cultural
Development
An
Improv
workshop which is
POWERFUL
and
GOOD FOR EVERYONE
Performance Lab
“If you bring forth what is within you,
What you bring forth will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you,
What is within you will destroy you.”
Essence Gospel of Thomas
* Conducted in English, with both Chinese and English syllabus handouts;
On the spot Cantonese translation will be provided for questions and important elements
For more details about G Hoffman Soto, please browse into the following website:
The Performance Lab explores individual and collective creativity through a strong movement base, voice and language. Much of the work is based in improvisation and developing material that comes out of the improvisation process through recycling and reworking material. Students are encouraged to bring to the Lab their personal stories and myths as a vehicle to share and enlighten themselves, and others.
This work is for students, teachers, therapists, performers, coaches and anybody who wants to develop themselves as artists, performers and human beings. Soto subscribes to the theory that creativity goes to the very core of what it means to be human. This workshop will bring participants a sense of being present in themselves in each moment, a flexibility and fluidity of body/mind/spirit as well as an understanding and celebration of creativity as an essential element to our lives as human beings.
Improvisation is a powerful metaphor for life. Studying improvisation provides a vehicle to study who we are in each moment, and to develop ourselves through being awake and aware. Exploration is a development and refinement of the material that arises from the Improvisational process. Exploration allows us to shape and deepen our material and ourselves in this model.
G Hoffman
Soto has been a practicing,
performing and teaching dance and movement since 1968. He has taught
internationally since 1979 throughout Europe,
Recent performance work includes teaching and guest director at the
Arhuus Dance and Theater Festival 2003. As a guest performer with Anna
Halprin at the Paris Autumn Festival 2004 and in the
As a performer Soto has been described in the San Francisco Bay Guardian as "a revelation. A subtle, athletically powerful improviser, he was breathtaking to watch."
From the Californian Asian - “G Hoffman Soto created a dance work so tight in concept, it mesmerized the audience...He made the unnatural look natural. Like a break dancer, he controls and isolates each part of his body. And like Twyla Tharpe, he nuances each movement with a myriad of composite parts"
For more details about G Hoffman Soto, please browse into the following website:
Date & Time:
16/5/2008
17/5/2008
18/5/2008 (Sunday) 12 pm - 6 pm
(Total : 15 hours)
Venue:
On & On Theatre,
Fee :
$1,200 (Early Bird - Register on or before April 30, 2008)
$1,600 (Register after April 30, 2008)
* Conducted in English, with both Chinese and English syllabus handouts;
On the spot Cantonese translation will be provided for questions and important elements
Please complete the application form,
make cheque payable to “Centre for Community Cultural Development Ltd”
and
return both to 12/F.,
Enquiry :
Centre for Community Cultural Development
(Tel) 2891 8482 (Fax) 2891 8483 (Email) cccd@cccd.hk
Mr Eric Ng 9747 8878
Ms Elisa Yu 9731 3262
Supported by :
Dawei
Charitable Foundation Limited
