New Session for Adults!!!!

July 9-11 (F-Sun), 2010

Full residential cost: $225 Per-day fee: $50 (includes lunch)

The Flourish adult sessions are designed to give participants creative performance tools and approaches to use in daily lives and careers. The focus is on communicating an idea through a particular performance art form. Participants need not have background in any of the performance disciplines offered. The work is oriented to a variety of skill levels, allowing participants to engage at a comfortable level and to challenge themselves to grow.

Participants are asked to bring a text (poem, song, literary excerpt, journal entry, scientific paper…) that communicates an idea that is important to them. They will use this text as the foundation for their work. For those participating all three days, the same text may be used; their work then becomes a comparative exercise in the use of different art forms to communicate the same ideas.

A further unique aspect of the program is the farm space itself. The farm space is central to the Flourish mission to challenge traditional concepts of performance spaces. Participants are encouraged to explore using the various backgrounds and settings that the farm offers to affect and/or deepen the message they are conveying.

Schedule

10am-5pm daily

Day One: Vocal Play with Mankwe Ndosi

Day Two: Dance and Body Work with Gwen Hendee

Day Three: Puppetry Arts with Daniel Polnau

The daily schedule begins with a brief orientation to the farm and facilities. Following orientation, the morning workshop introduces basic techniques in the given art form. A fresh-picked and assembled lunch breaks the day in half. Afternoons focus on composition of ideas using practiced techniques. Late afternoon becomes the time for sharing compositions with each other, and for constructive feedback that can lead to further experimentation. The schedule is the same each day. Those who come for the entire session will be welcome to join in evening events (films, campfires, conversations…) as well. Meals are prepared with vegetables from the organic gardens, and locally purchased ingredients.

Housing

For those residing onsite, rustic cabins are available. Bathrooms and showers with running water are adjacent to the dining facility. All facilities are “off-the-grid” and employ solar electricity.