Saturday December 12th 1-4 pm

with Bistoury Physical Theatre  ALEXEY TARAN & CARLA FORTE

IMPROVISATION IN URBAN SPACES

A workshop designed to focus our study of Improvisation through the Underscore, a long score for jamming/composition/improvisation. The Underscore guides us through a progression of "changing states" of body and mind from solo sensitizing to gravity and support, into group circulation and Improvisation engagements, opening out into whole room compositional awareness and interaction, and back to rest and reflection.

Information on  Bistoury

ALEXEY TARAN | Artist Statement 

To me, the use of cinematography and performance art reside in their capacity and ability to communicate knowledge and emotions that belong to and live within every human being. Suggested through sound, movement and other visual associations (as if living a dream), I observe them and begin to deconstruct or dispense with any narrative, in a free flow of images that conform and influence my work much more consciously than any other form.

Being trained in the school of ballet offered me the opportunity to break with rigid structures of composition, further approximating the creation of an open workpiece, allowing the spectator the possibility to build their own interpretation and story.

The non-structural content of my work distances itself from traditional lineal narrative; the arguments and ideas are exposed to free interpretation and diverse inquisition, instead of being presented as an inalterable exclusive whole.

Beyond this approach, my work is rooted in the concern for how human beings are influenced by their surrounding environment. Merely walking an avenue creates an infinite structure of sensations that affect us directly, as the different sounds, images, texts and objects that we find around us. Exploring these juxtaposed elements gives the spectator the opportunity to experiment a feeling of need and to find meaning in the work; it guides them to an aesthetic appreciation of the uncertainty and chaos reflected in it.

During my career as director and choreographer, I have found myself in need of resorting to different media such as film, video art, experimental film, choreography and performance art in order to communicate and contribute in a non-literal manner my knowledge, frustrations, emotions and concerns about the epicenter of my work “the Human Being and his Suitcase,” a suitcase that every person carries along, filled with stories, for the rest of their lives.

CARLA FORTE Born in Caracas, Venezuela. Performer, Writer and Director Carla Forte began her career as an interpreter, graduating from the National Experimental University of Arts in Caracas- Venezuela in 2004. Founder, Performer and Co-Director of the company Ere.Bistoury (Physical Theater & Media). Carla was a performer and co- director of video arts like: Obbe, Symbol, Schizobolo and Five Movements presented in important Theaters and Festivals like: Non-Verbal Theatre Festival San Vicente, Croatia (2009). Adrienne Arsht Center, Miami, Florida (2009). Movement Research at the Judson Church NY, US (2008). Gorilla FEST07, Soho Festival, NY (2007). Armando Reverón. Caracas, Venezuela (2007). A Desert for Dancing. Hermosillo, México (2007).

Artist website http://bistoury.blogspot.com/