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Training for the Dynamic Physical Performer Join me the month of July for Live Action Set's Training Program - Physical Education (P.E.) : Saturdays 10am - Noon Mondays 6pm-9pm. If you are looking for an opportunity to engage in some social exercise and creative stimulation please join me with my questions for this month: How does presence become intention and energy become action? Presence, meaning a state of being, an energetic pulse that transmits and reverberates beyond the performers body. Action, which is the form where the performer’s energy is revealed and is the structure that makes it possible for the performer's inner presence to reach the observer. We will begin by focusing on our corporeal body and investigating our relationship to our breath, to our body center and to the ground. We will investigate different qualities of vibration, strengthen our capacity for feeling, and expand our awareness towards a 3 dimensional and fully embodied performer. The approach will not be just a series of exercises but a deep investigation of our body language. Complimented by bioenergetic exercises, vocal/physical work, meditation, active imagination, improvised scores, and performer interaction. Please feel free to come to all, some, or one of these sessions. LAS has received a grant to offer very affordable training sessions for the general performing arts community. If you register for the whole month it is about $3 a session otherwise $10 per class. P.E. is open to people of all levels of experience who seek to improve their skills as performers, but is targeted at professionals in the performing arts. P.E. invites participants to share knowledge, hone skills, and expose themselves to new artistic techniques. Participants are creative personalities who are ambitiously curious and committed to collaborative creation. When Saturday 10am-Noon Mondays 6pm-9pm Where Hennepin Center for the Arts' Studio 7A. click for a map Membership Rates Monthly membership- $25 2 sessions a week, 8 session a month. About $3/session. “Drop in” Membership- $10 Come to one session of P.E. for $10. If after you “drop in” you decide to join as a member, the $10 applies towards a monthly or annual membership. Annual membership- $225.00 11 months for the price of 9. That's a $50 savings over the monthly rate! For registration information: www.liveactionset.org About the Training Program P.E. - Physical Education Live Action Set believes that with rigorous practice and purposeful play, the performing artist grows. P.E. invites participants to share knowledge, hone skills, and expose themselves to new artistic techniques. P.E. sessions are led by teaching artists in the performing arts, but primarily from theater and dance. P.E. is open to people of all levels of experience who seek to improve their skills as performers, but is targeted at professionals in the performing arts. Participants are creative personalities who are ambitiously curious and committed to collaborative creation. Content of P.E. sessions is determined by the teaching artists and can include a wide variety of styles and methods. Themes proposed by participants and drawn from Live Action Set works-in-progress may also inform content. Learning objectives are to gain experience in a new artistic techniques, share knowledge, hone skills, and maintain a healthy physical condition. A portion of P.E. sessions is devoted to creating material to be shown at informal presentations each month. All material created is "open source," no one has sole ownership of an artistic idea or creation proposed in the training sessions. Everything is available for others to expand, manipulate, or use in another medium or venue, for the true sharing of knowledge places no limitations on creativity.
	en masse is awarded a 2009 Sage Award for Outstanding Design and Sage Award Nominated for Outstanding Performance The SAGE Awards celebrate the dance makers who dare to be different, the artists who transform our times and embody the spirit of creative revolution. For more information http://www.sageawards.org/.