• MayDay: VestAndPage Workshop Concept, Theory and Practice

    Author(s):
    Andrea Pagnes (see profile) , Verena Stenke, Valentin Torrens
    Date:
    2014
    Group(s):
    Education and Pedagogy
    Subject(s):
    Academic freedom, Art teachers--Training of, Performance art, Performance art--Study and teaching, Performing arts
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    collaborative learning, education, experimentation, performativity, teaching, Art teacher education, Performance studies
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6H931
    Abstract:
    Considerations on how VestAndPage facilitate a workshop on Performance art. Text published in: "How We Teach Performance Art: University Courses and Workshop Syllabus", Edited by Valentin Torrens. Outskirts Press, July 2014. The book offers 42 different approaches to transmit the generative source of creativity in live action by internationally experienced practitioners, teachers and theorists of performance art from 21 countries. 340 pages full of ideas, points of view, methodologies, sensitivities, exercises and proposals to enjoy live practice with deeper involvement immersion, knowledge and study. The book begins with a clarification of the terms used to name this practice and continues with the cultural introductions previously to the appearance of the performance as an artistic differentiated activity. To see the performance's creative nature and its relation with the game; its communicative qualities and his perception. It's followed by a report on previous books and publications related to the pedagogies of the performance. Later, a description of education affiliations, inside the pedagogic common tendencies of performance courses. An approach to courses and workshop's characteristics. It's begun with the syllabus and the comments of the university courses and continues with the workshops. Some teachers have sent a text on their relation to the performance; in those cases, it's placed before the description of the syllabus, in order to complement, from the subjective intimacy, our best comprehension of his work and his course. After the entire syllabus, there is a small biographical summary of the authors and bibliography on performance.
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    Last Updated:
    6 years ago
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