Interdisciplinary Theater and Dance
Blue Palm Performance Techniques offer a comprehensive, interdisciplinary
approach to developing performance skills. Using the essential resources
of dance, theater and performance art, this intensive training helps
participants get to the core of who they are as a person in order
to find their strengths as a performer. Students become aware of
their presence, learn to extend their range and how to distinguish
themselves. Connections are made between movement, rhythm and breath,
as well as between improvisation and composition, text and action.
Under the instructors’ guidance, students develop their own
performance vignettes. The journey traveled by each student is a
creative process, as well as an apprenticeship. The process helps
forge the development of a personal style of reflection, creation
and expression. As each participant strives to achieve the highest
personal standards of excellence, the group learns to meet the demands
of a professional working environment. Students become self-possessed
and effective company players.
Minimum of 5 sessions, 3 hours each. Number of students limited
to 15. Master Classes also available (90 minutes - 3 hours).
This workshop was created at the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine
in Angers, France. It has subsequently been implemented at UC Riverside,
Loyola Marymount University and CAL ARTS amongst other institutions.
The project combines text, movement and video. Participants are
guided through vocal and physical exercises to expand their range
of expression. Next, camera movement, sequences and shots are studied.
This video work is kept basic, putting the camera at the service
of the performer, not the other way around. Each student creates
his/her own video-portrait, from storyboard to performance. The
project involves no editing, encouraging participants to conceive
solid, focused storyboards. “Video-Portraits” teaches
students to be active on both sides of the camera and to work collaboratively.
The resulting compilation of “Video-Portraits” conveys
the concerns, passions and dreams of a group of individual artists.
These intensive sessions offer a rich experience for individual
participants and for the group as a whole. “Video-Portraits”
constitutes an archival class document as well as the basis for
artistic and sociological analysis.
Minimum of 10 sessions, 3 hours each. Number of students limited
to 15.
These intensive workshops address the challenges
of teaching the arts and demonstrate how to become a more artful
teacher. The course is for educators interested in incorporating
the arts more deeply into their curriculum and for artists involved
in education. Participants explore how to create a balance between
art and education, meeting the needs of both without losing the
specificity of either. They learn to identify excellence in the
making of art and how to adapt this to the educational context.
Each participant is guided through written exercises, improvisations
and compositions to gain awareness of her/his strengths and goals
as a teacher. Practical and emotional aspects of being an artful
teacher are addressed, as well as the specific needs of different
teaching contexts. Jackie Planeix and Tom Crocker identify the contemporary
standards for teaching the arts, examine the connections between
tradition and innovation and assist participants in creating their
own model lesson plans. These plans include class structure, acquiring
techniques, creative expression, clear expectations, vocabulary
building, critical thinking, cultural/historical context and assessment
strategies.
Minimum 3 sessions, 3 hours each. Number of students limited to
30.
“The full week of workshop classes
was so successful that the Theater Arts and Dance Faculty, and students
requested that the Department bring you back for an extended period
of continued instruction. Your sensitivity and willingness to give
individualized attention and to communicate honestly, brought clarity
to students' achievements and greater focus and direction to their
career objectives. Your work with our students has considerably
developed their point of view and their sense of what is possible.”
Linda Kostalik, California State University,
Los Angeles
“The successes of the students were
due, in large measure, to the excellence of artistry and teaching
of Ms. Planeix and M. Crocker. They engaged the students' minds,
their bodies and their emotions. The final work these students created
was breathtaking. Our association with BLUE PALM raised the aesthetic
tune of our program to new clarity and created for us new professional
friends we respect, we enjoy and we count on for continued advice
and leadership.”
Judy Scalin, Department Of Theater Arts And
Dance Loyola Marymount University
“The work of Jackie Planeix and Tom Crocker, both as artists
and as teachers, is very original. They have developed their own
style and technique that uses, with much talent, the resources of
dance and theater, as well as audiovisual media. Their artistic
experience, spanning the United States and Europe offers a very
interesting perspective to the students they work with. For these
reasons, I recommend without reserve the work of BLUE PALM.”
Michel Reilhac, Ex-Director of the Centre National
De Danse Contemporaine (C.N.D.C. , Angers)
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