Cultural Odyssey
African American Art & Culture Complex
762 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA
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Week Long Residency Example

AAS 198 - Performance Art Course (1 unit) - suggested title
The African American & African Studies a program offers a 1 unit course that introduces students to performance style and training processes through sound and movement exercises. At the end of the course, students will stage a mini performance. Students are required to attend African American Performance Art - A Lecture Demonstration (Tuesday, 3-5pm) and at least 2 workshops (Wednesday - Friday, 10-12noon) and the production of Performance Music featuring Idris Ackamoor and Rhodessa Jones in concert (Friday, 8pm). A 2-3 page evaluation paper is required and due by Friday, (one month following).


African American Performance Art at the Turn of the Century

(Lecture/Demonstration with Idris Ackamoor, 60 minutes)
Using video and performance excerpts, this lecture introduces students to the various components and trends in African-American performance art. Idris Ackamoor investigates the elements of African American performance traditions and demonstrates the many ways they have been revised, borrowed and reintegrated by contemporary artists to produce new, visionary work. This lecture demonstration has been conducted at the University of California at Davis, Tampa Bay Center for the Performing Arts, and at other colleges and cultural centers.

Creating New Performance
(Workshop with Idris Ackamoor and Rhodessa Jones)
Creating New Performance is a theater workshop for professional, aspiring and closet performers. The class is an introduction to the performance style and training processes of Cultural Odyssey's Co-Artistic Directors, Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor. The workshop will utilize sound and movement exercises as the beginning of a creative exploration that includes theater games, memory exercises, autobiographical musings, storytelling and musical rhythm changes. At the end of the workshop participants will perform a five to ten minute mini-performance created during the process.

Creating New Performance has been conducted at Yale University, the Tampa Bay Center for the Performing Arts, the University of Missouri, New York State University at Albany, and for many other colleges and universities.



Calendar

Tuesday
3-5 pm African American Performance Art - A Lecture /Demonstration (a multi-media presentation using slides and video)

Wednesday
10-12 noon Creating New Performance (A Workshop in Interdisciplinary Performance)

Thursday
10-12 noon Creating New Performance (A Workshop in Interdisciplinary Performance)

Friday
10-12 noon Student mini-performances for Creating New Performance
8pm Performance - Idris Ackamoor and Rhodessa Jones in concert: Performance Music

To contact Cultural Odyssey for further booking information and fees, submit the booking information form, call us at (415)292-1850, or email us.



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