Experimental and Dramatic Writing for Performance, Susana Cook
Teacher: Susana Cook (NY) – trilingual (english, french, spanish)
Dates: Feb 8-12 (5 days) • Mon-Fri, 9:30am to 12:30pm
Site: Studio 303
Cost: $75 (Emploi-Québec)
Open to all performance artists (actors, dancers, visual performance and circus artists, mimes) and writers.
In this workshop, we will look at traditional and experimental writing methods for performance, with an eye towards helping create new works. We will do writing exercises to develop scenes, monologues and texts for the stage. A variety of ideas and processes involved in writing for performance will also be analyzed and discussed, specifically addressing creative strategies that will arise in the production of each participants’ work. Non-traditional and experimental forms will be discussed and encouraged, as well as more traditional elements of structure and narrative, with the intent of addressing the transformative idea of performance as intervention. This intensive workshop is intended for writers, performers and/or actors, with or without experience, who want to create original performance works based on their own writing.
Susana Cook is a New York based Argentinean playwright, performer, and director. She has presented her work as an independent artist for over 20 years in venues in New York City and beyond, including Dixon Place, PS. 122, W.O.W Cafe Theatre, Ubu Rep, Theatre for the New City, The Puffin Room and The Kitchen. Susana writes and directs all her shows and performs in them with her company, with a cast comprised of primarily queer women of colour. Her work is bold, cleverly tackling the politics of racism, classicism, nationalism and homophobia.. Her original plays include: The Fury of The Gods, The UnPatriotic Act: Homeland Insecurities, The Values Horror Show, 100 Years of Attitude, Dykenstein, Hamletango, and Hot Tamale, among others. She is the recipient of several awards from New York Foundation for the Arts, Franklin Furnace, Arts International, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, the Puffin Foundation and INTAR. She has shown her work globally in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Spain, India, Ecuador, and Canada. www.susanacook.com
Registration
Space is limited & reservations are recommended at 514.393.3771 or by email at info@studio303.ca. A $20 deposit is required.
RQD members are eligible for a partial reimbursement for non Emploi-Quebec workshops.
For Emploi-Quebec subsidized workshops, please contact us for eligibility requirements.
We only accept cash or cheques.
You can either mail a cheque or come and pay at our office during business hours.
Reimbursement policy
- No reimbursement for the occasional missed class.
- Sickness/ injury: total reimbursement of missed classes, including the initial deposit if none of the classes has been followed.
- Scheduling conflict: partial reimbursement (non-applicable if there is a waiting list). We keep 20% of the total price as an administration fee.
- Planned absences: possibility of a special rate.
- Other situations: evaluated on a case per case basis.
