Choirs
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Starting a choir? Interested in boosting engagment in your singing ensemble?
These workshops cultivate the joy of singing, encouraging singers to move and feel the music throughout the entire body, foster the production of good tone, get people breathing, listening, moving and laughing. |
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Syncretic Art
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Syncretic Art is the fusion diverse elements: visual art, music, theatre, dance.
These workshops empower participants to explore creative expression through diverse outlets: drawing, painting, sculpting, singing, speaking, playing, performing and dancing. Participants learn to "dance" a sculpture, or "sing" a painting, responding to colour, shape and texture through sound and movement. Syncretic art workshops enable participants to release pent-up emotions and explore deep personal issues.
• learn how a composer, choreographer or artist creates a work,
interprets a score and conveys it to performers
• learn how a performer utilizes masks & props
• discover the underlying process of the development of
art, music, dance & theatre over the past 1000 years
• develop & present a unique & engaging performance/exhibition
for peers, friends, colleagues, and the public...
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Mask
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From ancient and powerful to fun and contemporary masks fire up the imagination and unlock the inner eye. Masks may conceal and protect, reveal and enlighten, delight and enchant, amuse or frighten. Explore your relationship to the world around you, tap into the ancient and powerful through fun and contemporary mask and performance
In this workshop students create unique, comfortable, durable masks designed for active use in performance. Together we unleash the imagination, explore creative movement, dance, music, sound and theatre and bring the mask to life.
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Business in the Arts
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Essential for survival in the professional arts world, these intensive one-day Business in the Arts workshops introduce students to the basics of:
• grant and proposal writing
• applying for grants: private & government funders,
• preparing and understanding contracts
• website design
• preparing the portfolio
• documentation of artwork
• marketing and promotion
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 Latin & Ballroom dance
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Interested in having fun, keeping fit, releasing tension, alleviating depression and meeting great people?
Learn to dance Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Cha Cha, Tango, Rumba, Fox Trot, Waltz, Swing...
In private or group sessions participants learn:
• fundamental Latin and Ballroom dance steps,
• spins
• styling patterns
• fun routines
Amanta focuses on helping participants learn to listen to and connect with the music; develop social grace & poise; and feel comfortable participating at parties and in the clubs.
Choreographed dances and routines for weddings and other special events are also available upon request. |
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Basics of Musicianship
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Many dancers and actors are wonderful performers but when it comes to music they have no critical understanding of what they are hearing.
These workshops introduce dancers, performers, actors, artists and other interested participants to the basics of music. Participants learn:
• what to listen for
• how to feel beat "one"
• how to count music
• reading and writing charts
• feeling and hearing phrases |
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