INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS
presents
How to Create New Performance Using Movement & Text with Erika Chong Shuch & Danny
Wolohan
Saturdays • 10am-1pm
July 21, 28; August 4
$200 ($180 for Intersection Members)
Erika Chong Shuch, Danny Wolohan and Intersection for the Arts want to collaborate
with YOU! That's why we're presenting this SPECIAL OFFER:
Sign up for this exciting workshop now and receive a free ticket to both 51802 - the
dance theatre project developed using the techniques taught in this workshop - and
the fall Open Process event at Intersection for the Arts.
Intersection for the Arts is committed to involving members of the arts community in
the process of making art. That includes you! Your voice is a vital part of the
creative dialogue that feeds us. This workshop is a prime example. Just as you will
be able to use the methods taught in this workshop to develop your own work, Erika
and Danny will incorporate ideas developed in this truly interactive class into
their upcoming dance theatre piece 51802, coming to Intersection this fall. This is
a great chance to jump head first into the "Open Process" embodied by Intersection
and not only witness the process of creation, but CONTRIBUTE TO IT as well!
ALL LEVELS AND AGES ARE WELCOME.
The Intersection Institute provides year-round opportunities for people to engage in
an interactive exploration of the complete process of creating new art from
conception to fruition. The program includes classes, workshops, forums and
performances that combine unique social and aesthetic content with interdisciplinary
artistic elements.
Our educational programs are suitable for all ages and are available to educators,
students, community groups, artists and non-artists with all levels of skill and
experience.
To register for a workshop, please call us at 415-626-2787 or reserve online at
www.theintersection.org
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Erika Chong Shuch is a choreographer, director, performer, and teacher living and
working in San Francisco. Erika has been creating dance theatre works since 1995,
and graduated in 1997 from UC Santa Cruz with a BA in theater with an emphasis in
dance. Erika is the founder and Artistic Director of the ESP Project. She was
recently awarded the prestigious Emerging Choreographers Award by the Gerbode
Foundation, the Dance USA grant from the James Irvine Foundation, and was an Artist
in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in the fall of 2006, and a
Djerassi Resident in 2007.
Her latest project - 51802 - was a featured piece at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Spring 2007 in the Worlds Apart performances. In addition the project and the
process, in conjunction with Intersection's year-long Prison Project was featured on
the KQED show Spark in May , 2007.
In addition to creating her own work, Erika has been a guest choreographer at the
Magic Theatre for Charles Mee's Summertime, directed by Kenn Watt, and First Love,
directed by Erin Mee. In 2000 and 2001, she spent winters in Berlin where she
performed with Sommer Ulrickson and the Alex B Company. She has been commissioned to
create work for the Scott Wells Dance Company. Erika has also choreographed the
world premieres of Philip Kan Gotanda's A Fist of Roses at Intersection and Under
the Rainbow at the Asian American Theatre Company. She co-directed and choreographed
Octavio Solis' musical play, The Ballad of Pancho and Lucy, which had its world
premiere at Intersection in October of 2005. Shuch directed Domino, a Campo Santo
play written by Sean San Jose, which premiered at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in
December 2005. Most recently, Shuch worked with Word for Word Theater Company's
adaptation of Daniel Handler's new book Adverbs. Erika has been a lead programmer
and Resident Artist at the Intersection for the Arts through The Hybrid Project, a
forum for artists of varying disciplines seeking to bridge their mediums.
Erika is a co-founder/co-director and faculty member with the Experimental
Performance Institute, a BA, MA, and MFA multi-disciplinary performing arts program
in residence at San Francisco's New College of California. She also teaches at the
Intersection for the Arts' Hybrid Performance Institute (go to theintersection.org
to receive more information and sign up for July 30th through August 30th), and
through Dancers' Group's Summer Intensive Workshops.
Danny Wolohan is a proud member of Campo Santo Theatre Company. He is also a member
of the E.S.P. Project, the Intersections resident Dance Theatre company. With
E.S.P., Danny has danced, written, sung and spoken in two critically acclaimed World
Premieres; One Window, and Orbit, and is currently at work on their new piece 51802.
With Campo Santo, Danny has now appeared in eight World Premieres: Fe in the Desert
by Jessica Hagedorn, Soul of a Whore, and Purvis by Denis Johnson, Octavio Solis'
The Ballad of Pancho and Lucy, and Philip Gotanda's Fist of Roses. In Haze, he
performed pieces by Dave Eggers and Denis Johnson. He also starred in Eggers's
Sacrament!. Away from the Intersection, he appeared in the World Premiere of Philip
Gotanda's Under the Rainbow at Asian American Theatre, and in Octavio Solis's
Gibraltar at Thick Description and San Jose Stage. At the Aurora Theatre, Danny has
performed in Tough!, and The Shape of Things. Other Plays and Companies include:
Juno and the Paycock at A.C.T.; Loot, Three Sisters, The Authors Voice, and The
Winged Man at Shotgun Players; Jacques and His Master and The Possibilities at Fools
Fury. Danny has been nominated for a Bay Area Critics Circle Award and received The
Dean Goodman Choice award. He was SF Weekly's "Best Ensemble Actor of 2006", The Bay
Area Reporters "Best Drag Performance of 2005" (for his turn as 8-Ball Erm in Pancho
and Lucy) and was featured on the cover of American Theatre Magazine as one of seven
actors in the nation one should travel to see.
DON'T MISS THE OTHER GREAT CLASSES COMING UP AT INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS.
SPOTS ARE LIMITED, SO SIGN UP NOW!
Solo Performance Workshop with Margo Hall
Wednesdays • 6-9pm
July 11, 18, 25; August 1
$180 ($170 for Intersection Members)
Join acclaimed actor, educator and Campo Santo Founding Member Margo Hall in a
course designed to develop the performer's story through a variety of writing and
performance techniques. Whether you are an actor, writer, spoken word artist,
musician or dancer, this course will teach you how to create own unique and personal
performance piece. All levels of experience are welcome, from those who have never
been on stage before to those preparing a piece for professional production.
THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL
Acapella Performance Workshop with Carlos Aguirre (aka Infinite) from Felonious
Thursdays • 6-9pm
July 12, 19, 26; August 2
$180 ($170 for Intersection Members)
When you are done writing, what performance methods will you use to express
yourself? Learn how to develop techniques to sustain your words and/or sounds for
performance. This class will explore vocal percussion, poetry, rap verses, and
monologues. You will learn how to translate and perform your writing from page to
stage.
Telling Your Story Through Music with Marcus Shelby
Mondays • 6-9pm
July 23, 30
$100 ($90 for Intersection Members)
How can music-more specifically Jazz music-be used to tell a story? Award-winning
Jazz composer and educator Marcus Shelby will guide you through various approaches
to creating scores for text, theater and film using examples from his own
compositions and the scores of other jazz composers such as Billy Strayhorn and Duke
Ellington. This course will include lecture and will incorporate extensive listening
and discussion. Musicians of all levels of experience are welcome and Shelby will
work with individual students to address particular interests and skill levels. This
workshop is also ideal for non-musicians who want to deepen their music
appreciation.
DREAM IT & BUILD IT: Creating a Set or Installation on a Bare-Bones Budget
A two-workshop series with Victor Cartagena & Joshua McDermott
$250(you may also elect to take only one workshop in the series for a discounted price)
Visual Design for Theater with Victor Cartagena
Tuesdays and Thursdays • 6-8pm
August 7,9,14,16, 22, 23
$180 (for this workshop only) ($170 Members)
Learn how to transform physical space with your artistic vision. In this workshop
you will use sculptural materials and other media to modify environments, and create
a complete sensory experience for your audiences. Students will combine new and old
technologies, work with readymade, found and specially created objects and media
while simultaneously learning how to work within no and low budget scenarios.
Moving from Concept to Reality with Joshua McDermott
Saturdays • 12-3pm
August 11 & 18
$90 (for this workshop only) ($80 Members)
Learn how an artistic concept is translated into reality, moving from idea to
materials, fabrication, and installation for both gallery and performance spaces.
This class covers crafting a realistic budget, sourcing cheap or even free
materials, basic fabrication techniques, and practicable lighting theory and
application. We will focus on your own individual vision, and how we can bring that
vision to fruition.
Intersection for the Arts
446 Valencia Street (btwn 15/16), Mission District
San Francisco, CA 94103
Reservations at 415.626.3311 or
www.theintersection.org
INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS is San Francisco's oldest alternative art space and
provides a place where provocative ideas, diverse art forms, artists and audiences
can intersect one another. At Intersection, experimentation and risk are possible,
debate and critical inquiry are embraced, community is essential, resources and
experience are democratized, and today's issues are thrashed about in the heat and
immediacy of live art. We depend on the support of people like you. To become a
Member, simply visit our Website and click on the Donate Now icon at
www.theintersection.org.
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