MONO NO AWARE
FILMMAKING WORKSHOPS

We are very excited to announce our new line up of filmmaking workshops! These workshops would not be possible without the partnership of KODAK, DIJIFI, PAC-LAB and our host space THE CENTER FOR PERFORMANCE RESEARCH

Registration is now open! FULL WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS BELOW
PLEASE READ WORKSHOP POLICIES BEFORE REGISTERING. IF THE WORKSHOP YOU ARE INTERESTED IS FULL CONTACT US TO PRE-REGISTER FOR THE NEXT SESSION. ALSO WE WILL BE OFFERING STOP-MOTION ANIMATION, CAMERA OBSCURA FILMMAKING AND MORE IN THE SPRING, CONTACT US IF YOU HAVE INTEREST IN PRE-REGISTERING.

Note that our workshops are limited to 10 persons or less providing an intimate hands-on learning experience. ALL materials, film and equipment related to the class are inclusive. The workshops take place at CPR (361 Manhattan Ave, Unit 1, Brooklyn, New York) ONLY 3 short blocks from Lorimer L/G or Graham L subway stops. OR at Negativland Darkroom (1717 Troutman St, Suite #244 Brooklyn, New York) ONLY 2 short blocks from the Jefferson L subway stop. Maps below.

FEBRUARY/ MARCH

INTRO TO 16 MM FILMMAKING -
Instructor- Sean Hanley
Teaching Assistant - Steve Cossman

In this class students will learn 16 mm filmmaking techniques from start to finish. Camera options, TRI-X reversal film stock, exposure, lenses, how to load, focus, run, maintain and operate the H16 Bolex Reflex and K-3 film cameras. Participants will spend one day shooting then will meet again to view the raw footage to talk about editing options and presentation. The goal is to create a short film on 16 mm which you conceived, directed, shot, splice edited, and projected independently. We will also discuss how to promote your short piece through a list of friendly film festivals. All materials will be provided for. Finished projects will be presented after the conclusion of the course at our student screening.

WORKSHOP INSTRUCTION: 5 Sessions + Screening Party
FEBRUARY : WEDNESDAYS 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th from 7-9:30PM
SATURDAY 18th (DAY SHOOT) from 11 AM-5 PM
LOCATION: CPR 361 Manhattan Ave, Unit 1, Brooklyn

Course includes: 4 classroom instruction sessions, 1 day shoot, 100 feet of Kodak TRI-X 16 mm, film processing at Pac-lab, access to camera equipment, editing supplies and projectors. You will complete the course with the knowledge to continue to make films on 16 mm film, a completed film on a projection ready reel and a digitally transferred copy of your work by DiJiFi.

Workshop: $ 150 Course cap: 10 students
Option available to learn hand processing and develop your own film.

SUPER 8 MM FILMMAKING
Instructor- Lucas Millard
Teaching Assistant - Racheal Guma

Learn the art and craft of making films at 18 frames per second. This will be a hands-on class designed for the beginner that covers all aspects of Super-8mm filmmaking: cameras, angle, story, timing (exposure), lighting, editing, and projection. Students will conceive, shoot and edit their own silent one-reel films. In this class students will learn Super 8 techniques from start to finish. We will also discuss alternatives to projection, sound and how to promote your short film work with a list of Super 8 mm friendly film festivals around the world. All equipment and materials will be provided for. Finished projects will be presented after the conclusion of the course at our student screening.

WORKSHOP INSTRUCTION: 5 Sessions + Screening Party
FEBRUARY : TUESDAY the 7th MONDAYS 13th, 20th, 27th from 7-9:30PM
SATURDAY 18th (DAY SHOOT) from 11 AM-5 PM
LOCATION: CPR 361 Manhattan Ave, Unit 1, Brooklyn

Course includes: 4 classroom instruction sessions, 1 day shoot, 50 feet of Kodak TRI-X Super 8 mm, film processing at Pac-lab, access to camera equipment, editing supplies and projectors. You will complete the course with the knowledge to continue to make films on Super 8 mm film, a completed film on a projection ready reel and a digitally transferred copy of your work by DiJiFi.

Workshop: $ 125 Course cap: 10 students
Option available to learn hand processing and develop your own film.

ADVANCED 16 MM FILMMAKING WORKSHOP COLOR REVERSAL
Instructor- Tomasz Werner
Teaching Assistant - Sean Hanley

In this class students will further their knowledge of 16 mm filmmaking techniques. Shooting with an ARRIFLEX Professional camera outfit, participants will learn camera options, matting techniques, prime lenses, how to load a 400' magazine, focus, run, maintain and operate the ARRIFLEX S camera. Participants will then spend one day shooting then will meet again to view the raw footage to talk about editing options and presentation. The goal is to create a short film on 16 mm which you conceived, directed, shot, splice edited, and projected independently. We will also discuss how to promote your short piece through a list of friendly film festivals. All materials will be provided for. Finished projects will be presented after the conclusion of the course at our student screening.

WORKSHOP INSTRUCTION: 5 Sessions + Screening Party
MARCH : WEDNESDAYS 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th from 7-9:30PM
SATURDAY 17th (DAY SHOOT) from 10 AM-5 PM
LOCATION: CPR 361 Manhattan Ave, Unit 1, Brooklyn

Course includes: 4 classroom instruction sessions, 1 day shoot, 200 feet of Kodak Color reversal 16 mm, film processing at Pac-lab, access to camera equipment, editing supplies and projectors. You will complete the course with the knowledge to continue to make films on 16 mm film, a completed film on a projection ready reel and a digitally transferred copy of your work by DiJiFi.

Workshop: $ 275 Course cap: 10 students

16 MM DIRECT FILMMAKING WORKSHOP
Instructor: Uzi Sabah
Teaching Assistant: Steve Cossman

In this workshop students will learn to manipulate the surface of the film using a variety of direct film-making techniques; painting, scratching, collage, and masking in order to create an experimental film on 16mm. This intensive workshop is designed to introduce, explore and master (on some level) the ability to articulate movement through the tactile gesturings of this beautiful cinematic language. The course will meet 4 times, beginning with a brief history of filmmakers using these methods along with their contemporaries. After instruction students will get their hands dirty almost immediately. The goal is to have each participant create a well developed direct film work, that we will screen at the end of the session. Students will walk away with hands on experience of direct filmmaking, a finished film work, the knowledge to continue to work in this practice at home and a list of venues to pursue for exhibition. All materials will be provided for.Finished projects will be presented after the conclusion of the course at our student screening.

WORKSHOP INSTRUCTION: 4 Sessions + Screening Party
MARCH : TUESDAY the 6th MONDAYS 12th, 19th, 26th from 7-9:30PM
LOCATION: CPR 361 Manhattan Ave, Unit 1, Brooklyn

Course includes: 4 classroom instruction sessions, 100ft of film material, black leader, paints, masking elements, editing materials, access to equipment and projectors.
You will complete the course with the knowledge to continue to make direct films at home, a completed film on a projection ready reel and a digitally transferred copy of your work by DiJiFi.

Workshop: $ 110 Course cap: 10 students

For more info visit: http://www.mononoawarefilm.com/workshops2012

APRIL

INTRO TO 16 MM FILMMAKING -
February Instructor- Sean Hanley
Teaching Assistant - Steve Cossman
April Instructor- Katherine Bauer 

In this class students will learn 16 mm filmmaking techniques from start to finish. Camera options, TRI-X reversal film stock, exposure, lenses, how to load, focus, run, maintain and operate the H16 Bolex Reflex and K-3 film cameras. Participants will spend one day shooting then will meet again to view the raw footage to talk about editing options and presentation. The goal is to create a short film on 16 mm which you conceived, directed, shot, splice edited, and projected independently. We will also discuss how to promote your short piece through a list of friendly film festivals. All materials will be provided for. Finished projects will be presented after the conclusion of the course at our student screening.

WORKSHOP INSTRUCTION: 5 Sessions + Screening Party 
APRIL : TUESDAYS 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th from 7-9:30PM
SATURDAY 14th (DAY SHOOT) from 11 AM-5 PM 
LOCATION: CPR 361 Manhattan Ave, Unit 1, Brooklyn 

Course includes: 4 classroom instruction sessions, 1 day shoot, 100 feet of Kodak TRI-X 16 mm, film processing at Pac-lab, access to camera equipment, editing supplies and projectors. You will complete the course with the knowledge to continue to make films on 16 mm film, a completed film on a projection ready reel and a digitally transferred copy of your work by DiJiFi.

Workshop: $ 150 Course cap: 10 students
Option available to learn hand processing and develop your own film.

Katherine Bauer works primarily with 16mm film and its material potential for sculpture, photography and installation. Much of her work involves mythologies, folklores, and narratives adapted from her travels across the United States and Southeastern Asia. The celluloid of film gives bodily presence to these narratives and enacts their themes of decay, eroticism and horror. Katherine received a BA from Bard College where she majored in Film and Electronic Arts. She is currently working on a MFA from NYU in Studio Art where she also teaches 16mm filmmaking. She performs as part of Optipus Film Collective and is an active member on the Board of the Film-Makers Cooperative curating various film screenings around New York City. Her work has been shown across the United States in a variety of venues and galleries. Recently she has performed or shown work at The Knitting Factory, Anthology Film Archives, Microscope Gallery, St. Cecilias Convent, Millennium Film Workshop, New York Underground Film Festival, Tribes Gallery, Mono No Aware, Union Docs, Unsmoke Systems Gallery in Braddock, Television Access Gallery in San Francisco, among others. Her films are available for rent from The Film-Makers Cooperative in New York City.

www.katherineannebauer.blogspot.com 

CLASSES

Mini hands: Kids music, arts and crafts

INFORMATION on www.myminihands.com
Contact at 212.731.4953 or e-mail to info@myminihands.com

Music and Art Classes for all kids from 6 months to 5 yrs old
Bring your kids to exprerience creative music and arts classes. Let imaginations fly.

Mini Note/ Kids music: Thrusdays 10:15 to 11:00am

Mini Mandarin: Thursdays 3:00 to 3:45pm

Mandarin Art: 3:50 to 4:35pm

Storytime & Crafts: Fridays 10:15 to 11:00am

Kids Yoga: Fridays 11:15 to 12:00am

WORKSHOP/PRESENTATION

One Day Intensive Workshop with award-winning Theatre Artist Kari Margolis

Workshop -
Date/Time: November 19th from 10am to 4pm
Tickets: $110 with early registration discount $95 before November 5th. (includes a ticket to Sunday's PULLING STRINGS presentation)

Presentation -
Presentation of Work-in-Progress from the MB ADAPTORS newest production PULLING STRINGS:
Time/Date: November 20th at 2pm
Tickets: $12.50 if coming to just performance

Take a Theatrical Journey to Your Creative Core!
Margolis MethodTM takes the conceptual out of acting training by creating tangible, practicable exercises to hone and own the skill sets of the theatre artist's craft.  The body, breath and imagination are linked in a manner that trains actors to be capable of bringing emotional and psychological concepts into the physical realm to share with an audience. 

This one-day workshop will allow students to experience the Margolis Method's dynamic process of tapping into an actor's creative state.  Using a laboratory format, students experience creating theater on their feet, connecting the voice to muscular conditions and dramaturgically shaping visceral impulse.   The skill-sets of actor, director and playwright are merged to develop a powerful three dimensional theatre artist. 
"I believe the "magic ingredient" great works of theater possess lies in the heart and soul of the actor-the actor who can synthesize the instinctual with the intellectual and the visceral with the technical. By doing so, the personal can become universal and acting can become art." Kari Margolis

Kari Margolis' research and theatre productions have been recognized with six National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a "Bessie" NY Performance Award, a Per/TCG National Artist Fellowship, a Creative Capital National Artist Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships and multiple McKnight Foundation Fellowships among many other prestigious awards.  Kari is co-artistic director with Tony Brown of the critically acclaimed MB ADAPTORS Company.  She leads residencies internationally, has been the master teacher for the Kennedy Center for the Arts American College Theatre Festival for twelve years, is a published author and Keynote Speaker and runs the Margolis Method Center International in Highland Lake NY.

Presentation of Work-in-Progress from the MB ADAPTORS newest production PULLING STRINGS:
Time/Date: November 20th at 2pm
Tickets: $12.50 if coming to just performance

Margolis Brown ADAPTORS Company has, since 1984, toured sixteen original productions nationally and abroad,  The Company's work merges a dynamic actor physicality with text, song, video and the unusual use of everyday objects.  This is a rare opportunity to take a sneak look behind the scenes and experience how the Company creates work and be the first to see work-in-progress from their newest production.  PULLING STRINGS ponders the question "who really is in control of our dreams, thoughts and ultimately our actions"  Brought to life in the manner of a bizarre human puppet theatre PULLING STRINGS' haunting dreamscape collides time, iconographic storybook imagery and cultures to create a wry and twisted modern fairy tale.
Conceived and Directed by Kari Margolis
Created With and Performed By
Jonathan Beller, Helen Buron, Tania Liberata, Jarod Hanson, Jalyn Knobloch and Gregory Schott

September 11th, 2-6pm

WORKSHOP

Kònic thtr/Kòniclab (Barcelona)
www.koniclab.info 
Workshop Fees: $45

As part of their showing the piece Before the Beep at CPR, Kònic thtr is organizing the following workshop:

Workshop_Expanded Body - In this workshop will study models of projects and devices carried out by Kònic thtr using technological languages applied to contemporary creation. The participants will work in groups. We will use available tools brought by Kònic thtr to experiment the relation of the body in motion with interactive technologies.

A interdisciplinary workshop-laboratory in which we will study the relation between stage writing and audiovisual languages and explore the links between movement, word, video, sound and digital data interacting on stage in real time.

Kònic thtr [Rosa Sanchez and Alain Baumann] is an artistic platform based in Barcelona dedicated to contemporary creation at the confluence of art, science and new technologies since the early 90's. Their activity focuses on the use of interactive technology applied to artistic and stage projects.
The work of Kònic thtr has been shown in places such as: Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona MACBA, Barcelona (Spain), Institute of Contemporary Arts, London(UK), V2 (The Netherlands), ZKM (Germany), Centre Pompidou/IRCAM, Paris(France), Centro de la imagen, CCE, (Mexico), Theatre Mohamed VI, Casablanca (Morocco), Thekh/Proekt Fabrika Moscow (Russia), Shangai & Beijing Int. Fringe Fest (China), CESC & File Fest, Sao Paulo (Brasil), 3 Legged Dog & EMPAC, New York (US).
More information about kònic thtr: www.koniclab.info

The workshop is open to dancers and choreographers, but also to musicians, software engineers and media artists. 
Workshop  will be held in the large studio at CPR, within the framework of Kònic thtr's piece ‘Before the Beep'.

SUBSCRIPTION: konic@koniclab.info

June 17-19, 2011

WORKSHOP

Gaga Based Technique Workshop
Taught by former Batsheva Dance Company Member Maya Lipsker

Workshop dates and times: 
Friday June 17th 11AM-2PM
Saturday June 18th 11Am-2PM
Sunday June 19th 11AM-2PM

Workshop Fees: 
Full 3-Day Workshop $90
Single Day $35/per day

Please contact kirstin@cprnyc.org for application.  Dancers of all levels are welcome.  Maximum class size of 25 students.  All workshop dates will be held in the large studio of Center for Performance Research, 361 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211.

Workshop Description:
This short and intense workshop is meant to allow dancers from all levels to experience a group- dynamic work, which stimulates the senses and the imagination. Focusing on energy lifting exercises, we shell explore areas of physical effort, virtuosity, musicality, individual expression and improvisation.
The key for our work is enjoying-as an essential mental and physical task. Witnessing the powerful tool of pleasure and guiding images, encouraging creativity, awareness, alertness and playfulness- through which we gain our technique, strength and articulation.
In the last hour of each session we will experience our physical build up work- infused into the study of a choreographic sequence.
Based on my experience of teaching the Gaga method used in Batsheva Dance Company along other improvisation methods and practices I experience continuously in my work, the workshop embodies the elements I have adopted and developed in movement, composition and choreography in the last 6 years.

Sat June 18, 2011

WORKSHOP

MASTER CLASS WITH MIZU DESIERTO
"BODIES OF WATER"

Pricing: $45 ($40.00 for students and friends of Vangeline Theater)

Pre registration is necessary, space is limited.
To register: email: vangelinetheater@yahoo.com

Description: BODIES OF WATER: This exploration of inner and outer environment through butoh imagery and contemplative dance awareness will begin from a microscopic look at the role of water in our bodies--traveling through cells, tissues, organs & saliva--eventually becoming larger bodies of water--ocean, river, tide.  The workshop is a means of creating an experiential landscape to research the essence of our nature, through both internal and external landscapes of fluidity.

Mizu is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Portland's Water in the Desert and The Headwaters Theatre. She is a performer, choreographer and educator whose work explores themes of personal truth, ecological sensitivity and transformation. Mizu has worked with Human Nature Dance Theatre (AZ) for 14 years and was a founding member of The Carpetbag BrigadePhysical Theatre (S.F.). She has performed with Harupin-Ha Butoh (S.F.), Yoshito and Kazuo Ohno(Ja- pan), & Diego Piñon (Mexico) and her solo work has been presented internationally. She is a frequent collaborator with Portland State University's foremost expert on Japanese Performance, Laurenz Kominz, PhD. She has also been a recipient of grants from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Oregon's Regional Arts & Culture Council, The Multnomah CountyCultural Coalition & The Oregon Cultural Trust.    She currently works as an educator and choreographer for Portland's Circus Project (serving at-risk youth) and in 2010 worked as a choreographer for Classic Greek Theatre of Oregon. Mizu has taught butoh for over a decade and served as adjunct faculty member at Prescott College (Arizona). In July of 2011, she will co-teach a course in Butoh, Permaculture Design and Sustainability at Portland State University.

www.MizuDesierto.com

July 5-26, 2011

YOGA

Tanzasana Yoga
taught by Kirsten Lipinsky

Date/Time: Tuesdays at 6:00-8:00pm
Tickets: $15 per class

ABOUT THE CLASS...Tanzasana Yoga offers Vinyasa Yoga, where focus is not only placed on proper alignment, but on breath-synchronized movement, as one flows smoothly and powerfully from one pose to another. Historically, yoga asanas (postures) were created with the intention upon completion of a series, to be more comfortable sitting in meditation. All of the expansions and contractions of the body were for the sole purpose of being comfortable in stillness. That being said, yoga is a beautiful and necessary counter-pose to both sitting at a desk, and an athletic lifestyle. Aiding in both the prevention and treatment of anything from chronic pain to the common cold, yoga leads you down the path to a more satisfied you. Whether you are looking to deepen your practice, get in shape, or simply lead a more abundant & receptive life, Tanzasana Yoga can be a catalyst on the journey.

More info at www.tanzasana.org

June 27-Aug 12, 2011

SUPA 2011: Festival for Choreographers

 (All workshops are from 10am to 4pm Mon-Fri)

SUPA 2011 is looking for rigorous and sophisticated choreographers who are also interested in teaching and its relationship to making; choreographers invested in communicating via teaching the breadth and depth of choreographic thought and the relevance of the knowledge it engenders to other fields and subjects. This festival of workshops gives them an entire week to work with a limited amount of students (max 14) via composition, repertory, mentoring, or any combination of practices they feel useful. It is our hope that these workshops will result in a give and take of knowledge and practice that is rigorous, personal, intense, and intensely pleasurable.

Workshops
Week 1 June 27 - July 1
DD Dorvillier / Touch Move Talk Write: open studio practices.
Touching, moving, talking, and writing are conditions which can be detected in just about any dance/choreography-related workshop one might encounter. This workshop focuses on all four very directly, in a stripped down fashion, making a practice out of practicing them for different durations, in different sequences, inventing their purposes, defining and redefining them, describing fictional and not-so-fictional desired outcomes. The aim is to proliferate unexpected relationships between the different practices, and to bring about a revolution in assumptions about universal aesthetics, by proving that style, form, and aesthetics can be personal, non-universal, and if desired, not given, but constructed. For this week we will work with the specific properties that distinguish each practice without much attention to what might typically be its correct usage and context. We will invent dozens of personal and shared practices, rigorous, playful, joyful, meditative, productive, absurd, serious, fun...Please bring a notebook that has room for a lot of writing and possibly drawing, and a selection of writing materials (pen, pencil, marker, etc), a stopwatch, and a photo of yourself (for you). Some days we may be moving a lot, some days not so much. Please take care of warming up/working out before or after the workshop.

Week 2: August 1- 5
Susan Rethorst / The Choreographic Mind
Rethorst teaches from the point of view that making is an endless quest with ever-shifting ground. Encouraging an attitude of fueling work with one's questions, not regarding plans or themes as pre-requisites, she regards teaching as a conversational mode: exercises are proposals in action.
Rethorst's own interests have to do with the nature of movement and its communication, how they operate as phenomena; this fuels both her aesthetic and methods. Initially presenting composition from this point of view, exercises propose ways of perceiving and proceeding that engage these ideas. At the same time, Rethorst is interested in creating a situation in which each student can locate her/his aesthetic and goals in the larger picture of dance's many mini cultures. We will endeavor to develop the ability to recognize and access states necessary to making work: intuition, perception, cognition, interiority, emotional distance, spontaneity, pleasure, will, reflection, humor. We will take these ideas and issues into an in-depth conversation in both practice and theory.

Week 3: August 8 - 12
Jeanine Durning / What we do when we do the thing we do before we know what we are doing:
Using the body as a means through which to engage malleable, undetermined interests as they arise and responsiveness as it applies: this physical, sensorial and perceptualpractice is supported by the accumulated awareness of one's experience (memory, desire, feeling, imagination) while moving, observing and/or directing others. We willhone recognition of patterns, thoughts, actions and materials as they emerge, and locate and reinforce the inherent structures in what we do, imagine and feel. We will supportthese structures coming to form through fluidly developed strategies and tools for further immersion and then distance. These strategies include moving, writing, drawing, scoring, directing, watching, showing, sharing, listening, and discussing.
Throughout the process, we'll generate then reconsider, translate then reinterpret: action, image and content as they relate to personal interest, history and perception, and in turn, as these relate to extant themes, structures and events. In the midst of these strategies, we will hopefully embrace that at the core of the creative act is the interest and inspiration in what cannot be predetermined, and a willingness to think/move/imagine in unanticipated directions.

General Information & Registration
Workshop Fees:
One week: $ 350 (Discount!! sign up for two or more weeks and save)
Two weeks: $ 670
Three weeks: $ 990

For information, contact Susan Rethorst at s.rethorst@gmail.com