& 
co-present:
Performance
Lab presents
Self
Portrait Process
The Performance Lab
presents Self Portrait Process 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. However, The Self
Portrait Process will stem from movement exploration &
drawings of body part(s). From that body part, the self is
creatively represented through exploration and creative
expressions. Students are encouraged to bring to the Lab their
personal stories and myths as a vehicle to share and enlighten
themselves, and others. Ultimately, each body part and the
stories which give rise to self will be woven into mini
performance known as the self portrait. The Self Portrait
Process is a intimate reflective journey to getting to know
our selves better and our own humanness through a creative
process.
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.
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"
Date/ Time:
4/4/2009 (Saturday) 11:30 pm - 7 pm
5/4/2009 (Sunday)
11:30 pm - 7 pm
(Total : 15 hours)
Venue:
135
Junction Road, Kowloon [Map]
Fee:
$1,500 (CCCD members)
$1,600 (non
members)
Please make cheque payable to
“Centre
for Community Cultural Development Ltd”,
and return to
L5-04, JCCAC, 30 Pak Tin Street, Shek Kip Mei, Kowloon, Hong
Kong
Download Application Form
Enquiries:
Centre for
Community Cultural Development
(Tel) 2891 8482 / 2891 8488
(Fax) 2891 8483
(Email)
cccd@cccd.hk
(Website)
www.cccd.hk
More
information from Soto:
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, Japan, Lebanon, New Zealand, and Australia. His studies and practice have included a wide variety of the Post Modern Dance, Improvisation and Movement Art forms. This includes Yoga, Butoh, African and Afro-Brazilian Dance, Action Theater, Gentle Dance, Movement and Energy Awareness, and three decades of association with Anna Halprin and the San Francisco Dancers Workshop and then the Tamalpa Institute, where he was part of the original faculty. Additionally, Soto has 32 years of study in the Martial Arts including, 14 years of Capoiera, 25 years of the Filipino Martial Arts, Aikido, Taiqi and QiGong. An important aspect of Soto’s Martial Art study is how it applies to movement, dance and daily life.
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 San Francisco in 2005, guest performer at the Conundrum Dance House in Melbourne Australia 2004 and guest performer at the 2007 Fall Harvest Expressive Art Conference.
