Welcome back...

Dear students, I would like to welcome everybody back to our Friday's meetings specially to our first years -new- students...hoping that soon they start to also share with us some of their experiences and discovers inside the SNDO.

To inaugurate the year we will also have Sara Wookey back. Sara is an American artist who was based in the Netherlands for some years and also was part of our staff teachers.
Her lecture is related to her actual research in Los Angeles were she is now living and working.

Friday the 14
1:30 to 2:30 pm
In 609
WALKING L.A. – (Sur)facing the city
An artist-talk with Sara Wookey
Los Angeles, CA
In this artist talk, Sara will discuss the history leading up to her current project, Walking L.A., which emerges from her two and a half years of research on walking in Los Angeles. This project has developed into various forms, such as live performance, installation, and urban intervention performances as it considers the intersection of the self/subject and the built urban landscape. The live performance work will premiere in Los Angeles in February 2008 under the artistic advice of Yvonne Rainer (choreographer and filmmaker) and Edward Soja (urban planning).

This forty-five minute talk is followed by a discussion with the audience and is open to students and professionals from the fields of dance, performance, visual art, new media, architecture, geography and urban planning.
About her...
Sara Wookey is a choreographer and multi-disciplinary artist working between the mediums of dance, performance, photography, and video who recently relocated back to the United States from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where she was based for ten years. Her work has been presented in the Canada, Czech Republic, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, Spain and, most recently, at the Hammer Museum, REDCAT and 24th Street Theater in Los Angeles. She has been a guest artist at, among others, The Amsterdam School for the Arts, Chisenhale Dance Space in London, The Duncan Centre Konzervator in Prague, The Ohio State University and the Wexner Center for the Arts.

http://www.sarawookey.com