CORE-US: Intro to Creating Collective Collaborative Art Practices

CORE-US is an art-making workshop for community artists. It’s a creative model, designed to encourage cross-discipline collaboration and sharing practices.

This project’s starting point is the idea that anyone can create music and anyone can create dances. Participants may or may not have music or dance experience. Writers, poets, visual artists, designers or other artists wishing to collaborate with performing artists are encouraged to come take part as collaborators and/or performers.

We will explore varied ways of conceiving making music and dance: working with words, finding words, working with movement, choreographing movement, working with rhythm, working with harmonies, making up chases, making sound-scapes, discovering musical/dance forms, working in collaboration, developing hearing and singing, body awareness in performance, finding your individual voice, and investigating music and dance fluency and the concept of scores in order to facilitate ease in sharing.

This workshop is fully collaborative and there is potential for guidance, both general and specific. Most people have not made their own songs/compositions and dances before, so Padma and Susannah will facilitate a spirit of support and openness in the workshop environment: an interactive creative time/space.

We make music with our voices with instruments, such as guitars, bass, Ukulele, piano, violin, flute, and clarinet depending on the skills of the group. We dance with and without music. One of the main aims of the project is to encourage exploring the relationship of dance/performance to music, sound, listening, and our environment.

Core-Us is open access to all that love to sing, dance, or make art as well as those that want to sing, dance, or make art, not just people that have skills already.