Introduction to improvisational performer-camera practices
Led by Pete Gomes, Introduction to improvisational performer-camera practices is a new weekly workshop hosted at London Performance Studios.
This workshop explores new forms of improvisational filmmaking, performance and the camera. Initially working without any technical equipment, the workshop will use games to understand and experience this new practice, developing skills and awareness through experimentation.
Using this collaborative and co-creative model, we will explore its Structure, Movement and Framing modes and share processes and strategies for improvisation between performers, camera and sound roles. The game formats require that all players swap roles and gain experience in developing ways reading of ensemble movement and actions during improvisations. This set of four workshops can work individually as an introduction or as multiple workshops where practitioners build experience and skills.
This is an entirely new experimental transdisciplinary improvisation practice which reconfigures relations between performers, camera and sound. Its working strategies enable shared spontaneity and awareness of the unfolding dynamic relations within an improvising ensemble. In these first ever public introductory workshops, we will primarily focus on dynamic movement. Be prepared to play.
Dates and times
5 April - 26 April 2023
Wednesdays 6.30-9.30pm
Tickets
£15/session
Tickets available here
Location
Studio 3, London Performance Studios
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Pete Gomes is artist filmmaker and academic working across moving image, performance, sound, music, media arts and two-dimensional work exploring processes and practices of improvisation. His artistic doctorate formulated an entirely new ensemble improvisational filmmaking model for performer-camera practices. This transdisciplinary methodology draws from theatre and music performance models, and accounts for the multiple intra-acting agencies at play and dynamic shifting conditions as a core part of ensemble improvisation.
He has collaborated extensively including: Shobana Jeyasingh Dance; Errollyn Wallen; Scanner; Donnacha Dennehy; Benjamin Dwyer; Michael Nyman; Furtherfield and others. Exhibitions and screenings include: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona; ICA; Whitechapel Gallery; Tate Modern; Tate Britain; Dance Umbrella; Gimpel Fils; Stedelijk Museum; Pixelache; Sonar; Royal Opera House; South Bank Centre; ABC Australia and Channel Four and others.
He recently completed the collaborative feature length film Shalott – a queer dystopian adaptation of Tennyson’s The Lady of Shallot filmed in Berlin between lockdowns, which is released in 2023.
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