Workshop:

Making It Happen - Performance Strategies and Practice


Leaders: Pia Suonvieri and Hans T. Sternudd, Sweden

Who can participate?
The workshop will be in English with translation into Bulgarian. It is suitable for no more than 10- 15 participants. The workshop is open for all interested in practicing and researching stage arts. Bring scrub clothes.

Registration:
In advance registration for participation is required. You have to send a motivational e-mail till Sunday, the 7th of October latest to: office@redhouse-sofia.org, and/or to deliver it or send it by post to:
The Red House Centre for Culture and Debate
Movement Workshop “Visibility of the body”
15, Ljuben Karvelov St.
1142 Sofia
The applications are considered in order of submission.
Participation fee: 15/20 BGN for the entire workshop (the fee is to be paid in the first day of the workshop)

For more information:
Rossitza Gusheterova
T/F (+ 359 2) 988 81 88, 986 44 16

About the workshop
Starting point: The workshop is a hands-on teaching in different practices of action and performance art. “Making It Happen” has some lecturing parts but mainly according to the principle “learning by doing”.

About the leaders:
Hans T. Sternudd is a stage artist with focus on action and performance art. During the years 1992-2006 he was performing under the name the Belacqua project. Since 2007 he is performing under his own name. He has a PH.D. in art history with a dissertation called “Excess and Action Art”, addressing the work of the famous Austrian artist Herrmann Nitsch. He is also a teacher in the theory and practice of action art and performance art.
The Belacqua Project is one of the most ambicious Sternudd’s projects and has been carrying out over 113 actions; performances, events and happenings in Europe and South America. It had its stage on rock festivals and private parties, museums, galleries, streets and deep down underground. On the international scene The Belacqua Project has represented Sweden on the first Bienal Internacional de Arte, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires (2000) and during the Limes performance festival 2003 ones again at Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires and at Instituto Escuela de Bellas Artes, Montevideo.

Pia Suonvieri is a performance artist, singer, filmmaker, culture worker etc. She is born on the 13th of June, 1960 in Finland, but since 1971 she lives in Haparanda, Sweden. She has taken many courses in music, performance, film production, theater, dance, dramaturgy, stage design, light and more. Since 1985 she has been directing over 12 bigger performances, and numerous smaller performances, happenings and children’s theatre plays. As a singer and actress she has participated in many performances and productions like: Futurniture, Paris, 1994, Street theatre festival, Arkhangelsk, 1995, Ikast, Denmark, 1996, All Art’s Night, Overkalix and Lulea, 1994, Finnish-Ugrian culture festival, Nurmes, Finland, 1996, Experimental workshop, Lulea, 1996, Art symposium Eventa, Uppsala, 1998 and 1999, Pitea Dansar Och Ler music festival, 1997, Etno music festival, 1999. She is also participating in the still touring tango show ”Dangerous Lips”. She has been a teacher at Haparanda municipality, Svenska folkhogskolan, Media and Art School, Tornio, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Arkhangelsk Art College workshops, January 2006. As a costume designer she has worked in ”Here beneath the Polar Star”, Torne Valley Theatre, musical ”The Happy Salmon”, 1999 and 2000, Youth theatre, Pajala, ”Dance, Devil”, 2001.

October 8-10 (Monday-Wednesday), 10.00 a.m.–2.00 p.m.
Pesha Nikolova hall
15/20 BGN

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