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The Cornaro Residency for Artists

The Cornaro Residency is a three month residency for artists, running from 20 September to 20 December annually. It is held in the village of Lempa, two miles north of Paphos town on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus and offered by the Cornaro Institute in association with the Cyprus College of Art and Symvoulio Lempas. Lempa has been a centre for artists’ residencies since 1981 with the establishment of the Lempa Studios. 

Application deadline: 1 August 2012.

La Pocha Nostra + East LA Rep + Native Strategies present LA POCHA NOSTRA PERFORMANCE INTENSIVES ‘The Pocha Method’   led by ROBERTO SIFUENTES, ALLISON WYPER & MARCOS NAJERA   LOS ANGELES  •  CALIFORNIA  JUNE 15-17, 2012 4-8PM FRIDAY, 11AM-7PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY   3-day intensive workshop on performance art with a focus on the human body as a site for creation, reinvention, memory and activism.    Does the L.A. Biennial or Pacific Standard Time describe you and  your contribution to the city’s cultural landscape?  What does your L.A. look like?  Who is your community?  How do we build bridges between communities from Venice to Boyle Heights,  Torrance to Valencia, Echo Park to Westwood?  This intensive workshop led by Pocha Nostra founding member Roberto Sifuentes with Pocha associates Allison Wyper and Marcos Najera will be hosted by East LA Rep from June 15-17, 2012. La Pocha Nostra’s signature border workshop is an amazing artistic and anthropological experiment in which selected artists from every imaginable artistic, ethnic and sub-cultural background begin to negotiate common ground. Performance becomes the connective tissue and lingua franca for our temporary community of rebel artists, forging new cross-disciplinary alliances and collaborations among artists from every imaginable form of performance and visual arts practice. In this cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary and cross-generational intensive, participants are exposed to the ‘Pocha Method’, an eclectic combination of exercises borrowed from multiple traditions including performance art, experimental theater and dance, the Suzuki method, ritual shamanism, performance games and live jam sessions. Parallel to this hands-on process, the group will analyze the creative process, the issues addressed by the work, its aesthetic currency, cultural impact and political pertinence.   Who should apply? Performance artists, experimental actors, filmmakers, writers, dancers, theorists, and students interested in the topics addressed by La Pocha Nostra. All ages are encouraged to apply. Applicants must have some performance experience, and must be familiar with La Pocha Nostra’s work. Participants must be comfortable with group work and collaboration. The workshop is extremely fun but also physically and intellectually rigorous. Applicants must submit the following: Completed Application Form (below or download here). A short resume or CV. A sample of your work, preferably online. Clearly describe the medium, title and any other contextual information. WORKSHOP FEE:  $200.  ($175 if paid in full by June 5.) APPLICATION DEADLINE: Applications are due by email no later than 5pm PST Sunday, May 27th. Notification of acceptances will be given by June 1st. Tuition is due in full no later than the first day of the workshop, June 15. Please submit applications to: allisonwyper@mac.com   Roberto Sifuentes is an interdisciplinary performance artist and co-founder, with Guillermo Gómez-Peña, of the San Francisco based performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. He has performed and conducted workshops with La Pocha at over 800 venues across the US, Canada, Europe and Latin America. Sifuentes has co-authored two books with Gómez-Peña; most recently “Exercises for Rebel Artists: Radical Performance Pedagogy” Routledge 2011. As a performance pedagogue, he has been Artistic Director of the Trinity College/La MaMa Performing Arts Program NYC and an endowed Latin American Scholar in residence at Columbus State University Georgia.  Sifuentes is currently full time faculty and incoming Chair of the Performance Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.   Allison Wyper makes live performance that bridges performance art, theatre, dance and conceptual art, vitalizing the performance space as a site of critical investigation with focus on participatory, one-on-one performance, as well as endurance and sustainability within extreme body-based performance practices. An associate of La Pocha Nostra since 2004, Allison has taught the Pocha Method with Guillermo Gómez-Peña at UCLA and Pocha’s San Francisco headquarters. Her work has been seen in Los Angeles (LACE, Highways, LACMA, Hammer Museum, Fowler Museum, UCLA, Cal State Long Beach, Craftswoman House), San Francisco (Performance Art Institute, Dance Mission, Galería de la Raza, NOHspace, The Garage, CounterPULSE), Boston (Boston Center for the Arts, the ICA, Boston Cyberarts Festival, Emerson College) and Berlin (Schwelle7).  MFA Dance, UCLA. BA Theatre Studies, Emerson College.   Marcos Najera is an actor and journalist originally from Phoenix, Arizona.   He serves on Center Theatre Group’s Teaching Artist Faculty and as East LA Rep’s Director of Education. As a performer, he’s collaborated with Cornerstone Theatre Company, Watts Village Theatre Company, East LA Rep, La Pocha Nostra and is currently exploring the power of the word “YES” as a student at the Groundlings Theatre in Hollywood.  Marcos also works as an artistic associate with Anna Deavere Smith on her national tour of Let Me Down Easy.  As a journalist, he freelance reports for NPRmember station KJZZ 91.5 FM in Arizona.  He also contributes to WGBH’s The World, NPR’s LatinoUSA, and Sirius Satellite Radio’s OutQ News.  He has penned two regular columns, “Najera Nites” for Latino Perspectives Magazine and “Brown Town” for Phoenix New Times/Village Voice Media.  Marcos holds a BA & MA from Stanford University.

The France Los Angeles Residency Exchange application for 2012 is now available. Special fellowship program co-sponsored by the French Cultural Services in Los Angeles and the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA). The deadline to apply is March 29, 2012. Download the application here.