Workshop Offerings

2012 course offerings will be announced in February 2012.  These are examples of past offerings.

Dance a la dominicana
Orlando Muñoz

A dancer, actor and teacher of both by trade, Cucuyo’s own Orlando Muñoz will take us to the emotional core of Dominican culture by way of our soles.  Dance and movement of the body are deeply ingrained Dominican modes of expression. Thinking is discouraged.

Tabletop Puppetry
Caroline Reck

Tabletop is a style of puppetry in which three puppeteers manipulate one puppet, working in close proximity with breath and timing to create a unified character. This form encourages and demands that the artists reach across cultural boundaries and work together.  We will build puppets from basic found materials, such as newspaper and tape.   Students will learn to learn to manipulate their puppets, and collaboratively create their own stories for performance.  This is an art form that needs little in the way of material goods, but requires great depth of spirit and cooperation.

Portrait of a City: Sketchbook / Performance / Exhibition
Hope Hilton

Topophilia is the love of place. Using this as a starting point, we will explore Bonao together daily. Meeting people, learning about places, and participating in the community are essential to the practice of experience. Sketchbooks, pencils, sound recorders, and paints in tow, we will create individual journals of our place and discuss ways to incorporate ourselves into the environs of the city, which will culminate in an exhibition. Daily we will discuss visual analysis, psychogeography and walking, the art of experience, and art forms involving community participation, documentary, and performance, as well as touching on art theory and expression using color, line, text, and natural and found materials.