Trinity La MaMa - Urban Arts Semester in NYC

Attend diverse arts events, intern with a non-profit arts institution or individual artist, and present your own work at La MaMa, E.T.C.

Integrating Seminar

New York City possesses some of the most vibrant, innovative, and influential arts offerings in the world. This course places the weekly performances and arts events, practice classes, and field studies in an historical and theoretical context as we examine the development of performance, music and visual arts genres from the late 1960s to the present day. The seminar looks at the traditions from which contemporary expression emanates with particular focus on content, approach, and aesthetic. Emphasis will be placed on how to effectively discuss and write articulately about the semester experiences. This seminar is taught by Michael Burke, Program Director.

Internships

Students will be placed in internships at arts organizations based on their particular interests. Two full days per week are dedicated to this component. Please note that in addition to working with presenting venues and other non-profit arts organizations such as museums and galleries, students also have the option of placements with individual artists and companies.

The Following is a sample list of Trinity/La Mama’s many sponsoring internship organizations:

• Performance Space 122
• Dixon Place
• HERE Arts Center
• Ping Chong
• La MaMa E.T.C.
• Movement Research
• The Kitchen
• The New York Musical Theater Festival
• Dance New Amsterdam
• Loco 7
• Mabou Mines
• The Wooster Group
• New Dance Alliance
• Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
• The Culture Project
• Urban Bush Women
• Cunningham Dance Foundation
• New York Theatre Workshop
• The Joyce Theater
• Pan Asian Repertory Company
• Classic Stage Company
• St. Ann’s Warehouse

Practice Classes

Two full mornings per week will be devoted to taking practice classes that respond to the students’ particular arts interests to further their craft.

Acting Class

Students will take classes with three established acting instructors with extensive professional experience and diverse approaches to training.

Dance/Movement Class

Those with a focus on dance/movement will be matched with an appropriate roster of classes at New York City dance institutions such as Movement Research, Peridance, Steps, New Dance Group, Ballet Arts, Mark Morris Dance Center, Trisha Brown Dance Studio, Taylor Studios, Cunningham, and Ailey Extension.

Note: Should there be students with a focus largely in visual arts genres or music, classes will be found to support these interests as well.

Guest Artists/Guest Speakers

In addition to the core Trinity/La MaMa faculty, there will be several afternoon and day-long master classes taught by guest artists and also a diverse roster of guest speakers

Selected Guest Artists and Speakers for the fall of 2006 include:

• Ellen Stewart (Founder and Director of La MaMa E.T.C.)
• George Emilio Sanchez (Writer and Theater Artist)
• Patricia Hoffbauer (Choreographer/Performance Artist)
• Arthur Aviles (Dancer/Choreographer, formerly of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co.)
• Penny Arcade (Performance Artist/Filmmaker/Activist)
• Alberto Denis (Dancer/Choreographer/Producer)
• Clare Byrne (Choreographer)
• Lynn Moffat (Managing Director, New York Theatre Workshop)
• The Philly (Performance Artist/Film Actor/Musician/Visual Artist)
• Peculiar Works Project (Site-specific Theatre Company)
• Ellie Covan (Artistic Director, Dixon Place)
• Jody Sperling (Choreographer/Dance Critic)
• Peter Petralia (Theater Artist)
• Ozzie Rodriguez (La MaMa E.T.C Archivist)
• Karen Bernard (Choreographer/Director of New Dance Alliance)
• Julie Atlas Muz (Burlesque Icon/Modern Dancer)
• Todd Verow (Filmmaker)
• Nicky Paraiso (Performance Artist/Former Meredith Monk Performer)
• Carolina Kroon (Photographer)

Performance Workshop

Performances/Arts Events

We will attend a diverse selection of performances and other cultural events 3-4 evenings per week. These performances will be incorporated into all of the semester’s components.

Field Study

This component is the most “improvisational” and uses New York City as a field study site for experiential investigations into the nature of artistic process and the realities of being a working artist. We will venture away from our office/studio in the East Village to cultural institutions and various NYC neighborhoods as well as visit artists’ homes and rehearsal studios. Field Studies are directly related to the weekly theme and serve as another integrating mechanism for arts events attended, classwork, and guest engagements.

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