BODY RESEARCH, a project of director Karl Frost, is devoted to exploration of the self through the lens of the body. It encompasses performance work for the stage, workshops in investigative creative process and body awareness, and gatherings that facilitate the study and practice of body-based exploration and the intersection/integration of life and art.
The work of BODY RESEARCH crosses many boundaries and territories: disciplinary boundaries of theater, dance, and self-exploration; the boundaries between proscenium performance and communal interactive happenings; the range of explorations from professional-level creative and theater work to community oriented experiential facilitation.
BODY RESEARCH uses as one of its main tools a disciplined study of the art of
BODY RESEARCH is devoted to a life lived more pleasureably and compassionately in balanced relationship with each other and the world we live in ... in a way which is sustainable for ourselves and the planet and rich in opportunities for the appreciation of life's complexities...
As part of this devotion to sustainability in art-making, BODY RESEARCH is committed to providing affordable contexts for training and exploration that can be a sustainable part of a life integrated with art-making.
For upcoming workshops, performances, and events, goto The Calendar
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| Upcoming Events Summer 2010 | |
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The 15th August 9-15 , 2010 N Cascade Mountains, Washington 'since 1997, an ongoing investigation into the interrelationships amongst wilderness experience, body-based creative process, and how we choose to live our lives. 'wilderness backpacking and dance laboratory. |
the 3rd annual August 20-25, 2010 at Sierra Hot Springs, California a peer-oriented, lab-focussed contact festival geared towards experienced contactors This year's presenters include...Leslie Castelano (Arcata, CA), Rosemary Hannon (Berkeley, CA), Val Smith (Manila, CA), Maxima Kahn (Grass Valley, CA), Michael Hodapp (Seattle,WA), Vitali Kononov (Berkeley, CA), Laura Bishop (Santa Cruz, CA), Cathie Caraker (San Francisco, CA), Brad Stoller (Charlottesville, VA), Kat Single (Vancouver, BC) |