[Capdist-announce] Poor Dog Group workshop + Dionysia performances | EMPAC, Troy, NY

[jason steven murphy]

http://empac.rpi.edu/workshops/2011/poordog/
Workshop with Poor Dog Group
Saturday, November 5, 9 AM - 1 PM
EMPAC
Troy, NY
FREE



Come explore the collaborative process of contemporary performance with the artists of Poor Dog Group (PDG). This 4-hour session will expose and examine the unique artistic practices of the PDG collaborators. Participants will learn how to build a new theatrical experience in a collaborative environment; learning the fundamentals of constructing an experimental performance piece with the tools of original story structure, character development, movement, and text. 

The workshop can accommodate 20 participants. Prior experience not required. Please RSVP to Liz Slagus at slague at rpi.edu by Monday, October 31, 2011.

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http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2011/fall/quote/poordog
PERFORMANCE 
Poor Dog Group: Dionysia 
Friday + Saturday, November 11 + 12, 8 PM 
$18 general admission / $13 students + seniors

Half man and half horse, the wild and badly behaved satyrs were legendary companions of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and theater.
 
Dionysia retells the myth of Thyestes and Atreus, exposing the social and sexual politics of the late fifth century BC. The satyrs invade with their full-blown physical expression of the bestial qualities inherent in contemporary life, channeling forgotten rites and revealing a world both barbaric and beautiful.

Dionysia was commissioned and originally performed at The Getty Villa Lab with additional support from UCLA.

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Poor Dog Group is a new Los Angeles-based collective of like-minded performance and media artists committed to nurturing a distinctive aesthetic through adventurous collaboration. Their mission is to develop original theatrical expression through the creation of new work and radical reexaminations of existing texts; to redefine, educate and expand perceptions of performance and theatrical form; to have an accessibility for a new audience; to use experimental methods of the body, text, and technology; to craft new American theater; and to develop the cultivation of a limitless and periodic space. 

+ Poor Dog Group's site: http://www.poordoggroup.com
+ Dionysia video clips: http://vimeo.com/28789317

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The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is an international hub for art, performance, science, and technology — offering adventurous interdisciplinary public events, support for artists and scholars engaged in creative research, and the resources of a state-of-the art facility for digital media production, research, and performance situated on a college campus.

EMPAC 2011-2012 presentations, residencies, research, and commissions are supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Science Foundation, the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust), and the New York State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support of artist commissions.

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The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 
110 8th Street 
Troy, NY  12180
http://empac.rpi.edu/
Box Office: 518.276.3921
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