Saturday, June 16, 2007

The Zoo-oid Performance Laboratory

The Zoo-oid Corporation opens its doors to the public for a two day
intensive performance laboratory.


Members of the Zoo-Oid Corporation will conduct their 2-day intensive
performance laboratory on strategies that favour the transformative
possibilities of collective dialogue. We will create a temporary space where
interdisciplinary actions and imagination can thrive.
Zoo-oid creates a zone in which radical impulses and progressive thought
are allowed to take place . We give ourselves the permission to adopt
various contradictory positions and identities. Here we blur all
distinctions between 'us' and 'them', the 'self' and the 'other' and art and
life. Our job will be to raise difficult questions that trigger a process of
reflection and create images that haunt.

This cross-art, cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural workshop is open to
all artists, experimental actors, dancers, theorists, and students
interested in the zoo-oid position.
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The 10-hour days will offer two processes: participation in the Zoo-Oid
performance methodology of MCT (mutuality, contact and trust) as a group
training where we will introduce participants to a rigorous but exciting
physical and vocal practice. Later we will conduct a more inquisitive
approach where the group can raise their burning issues, complex desires
and relevant questions that can be addressed by this work, with its fluid
performance style, its pertinence to British culture and its political
importance.

WARNING: If you are attached to any social, sexual, gender, racial or moral
hang-ups in which people expressing themselves to the fullest of their
passion and their disturbances may upset you then this workshop is not for
you as all of your assumptions may be turned on their head.

Practical details:
Dates: Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th July
Venue: Stratford Circus, Theatre Square, Stratford, London, E15 1BX
(Nearest Station: Stratford - Jubilee, Central, DLR and mainline train
services)

Times: 11am - 9pm on both days

For expressions of interest or more information
Contact: Nwando Ebizie on 07916278949 / 0207474009
nwando@para-active.com