ART LAB

Interdisciplinary Workshops, Custom Classes & Creative Support

WORKSHOPS & Classes

Offering process and project support, custom workshops and classes to curious minds of all levels of experience and expression.

 

What Pilots An Idea – How Do You Get At It, Wrangle it, Illuminate it?

~ You want to revive your creative heart beat.

~ Your interests are broad and you want to find focus.

~ You’re ready to tell your story but not sure where to start.

~ You crave feedback, a conversation space.

~ You’re interested with the translation of ideas to a new medium.

~ You need support and systems to maintain and sustain yourself as a creative human.

Our work together is designed to support constructive and rigorous encounters for you to:

  • find a pathway into your own work
  • see and create differently, immediately
  • identify, analyze and express structure and meaning in multiple forms
  • create original devised work
  • read, interpret and jockey ideas across platforms
  • connect and filter your work through a variety of mediums, ideas and practices.
  • acquire increased flexibility and dexterity for encountering, interpreting and developing ideas
  • engage in the arts to increase listening skills and comprehension through structured and dynamic experience.

The Right Conversation Can Change Everything.

Dynamic Support is on the way:
Illuminating and augmenting your creative process, project development, a thesis, a proposal, a work in progress, a 
brain storming session, a custom online class, or ongoing mentoring and process support.


You may be:
  • frustrated with working in isolation, you need creative interaction and support, new frameworks to generate  material
  • in the final stages of a project and need a critical eye, a collaborator
  • needing guidance for your physical practice
  • in need of a new course, seeking an expansive experience for your students

Art Lab / 1:1

PROCESS & PROJECT SUPPORT 

What Pilots An Idea – How Do You Get At It, Wrangle it, Illuminate it?
The right conversation can change everything.

  • You’re tired of working in isolation, you need creative interaction or a new framework.
  • You’re in the final stages and need a critical eye, a collaborator.
  • You want to discover new processes and systems to generate ideas and material.
  • You need suport and systems to maintain and sustain yourself as a creative human in all realms.

CREATING ACROSS DISCIPLINES 

You are the curriculum.
This workshop takes an interdisciplinary approach to developing and translating ideas.  Through a series of prompts and inquiries I’ll design a set of creative explorations just for you. These series of investigations can include set movement, structured improvisation, written, visual and sonic prompts designed to lead you toward the discovery and invention of your own work.

BODY WORK 

All work is body based.
Body work means so many different things to so many different bodies.
It’s been a joy to partner with my clients for several decades. They are creatives, self-starters, performers, musicians, actors who want to train smart and build sustainable and fiercely intelligent bodies. Much like you, actually.
Body Work is offered on its own and combined with creative integrative practices.

Art Lab / group offerings

CREATING ACROSS DISCIPLINES 

Instant ensemble + solo work. This studio course takes an interdisciplinary approach to devising performance. Together we will pool our collective experiences to work through these questions: How can we learn to see and create differently? How can we mine deeper meaning within creative exploration and translate it into form? With class time balanced between individual and ensemble investigations, the course will integrate set movement, structured improvisation and written, visual and sonic prompts designed to lead you toward the invention of your own work. Participants are asked to develop and curate materials throughout the course to construct solo projects.

ENGAGING IN THE ARTS, NYC 

Engaging in the arts is integral to any New York Experience. It is rich with work from all disciplines and voices, including your own. For this course we will meet as a creative research team to analyze, appreciate and respond to a variety of diverse art events. Our fidelity will be to the process of creative investigation and experimentation as a from of deeper listening and understanding.

INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE 

This studio course takes a multi-disciplinary approach to devising performance and creating text, movement and visual material. Together we will pool our collective experiences to work through these questions:

  • How can we learn to read, interpret and jockey ideas across platforms?
  • How can we see and create differently?
  • How can we mine deeper meaning within creative exploration and translate it into form?
  • How can this inform and deepen your own work?

With class time balanced between individual and ensemble investigations, the course will integrate set movement, structured improvisation and written, visual and sonic prompts as an engine to lead you toward the invention of your own work.

Designed as an intensive eight-week course or full semester. Individual time is scheduled for mentoring solo projects. Workshops can be structured for shorter periods.

BODY TIME SPACE

The performer is a vector of information. Physical, intuitive, reflexive presence is the root of the instrument. Space is the medium for live performance. We will become more conscious in occupying, activating and collaborating with it. We will focus on building physical presence, address fundamental biomechanics, and expression through warm-ups, set movement, structured improvisations and movement invention.

Designed as an intensive eight-week course or full semester. Individual time is scheduled for mentoring solo projects. Workshops can be structured for shorter periods.

SPONTANEOUS COMPOSITION 

An immediate way of activating an ensemble of any size into action and practice.

By learning and applying creative research, set contextual, spatial criteria, and movement we build a world, one that builds accumulatively through structured improvisation / spontaneous composition. We will build a complex improvisational / practice structure built to run itself via internal cues and events setting it all into motion and flux.

CREATING ACROSS DISCIPLINES 

Instant ensemble + solo work. This studio course takes an interdisciplinary approach to devising performance. Together we will pool our collective experiences to work through these questions: How can we learn to see and create differently? How can we mine deeper meaning within creative exploration and translate it into form? With class time balanced between individual and ensemble investigations, the course will integrate set movement, structured improvisation and written, visual and sonic prompts designed to lead you toward the invention of your own work. Participants are asked to develop and curate materials throughout the course to construct solo projects.

ART LAB IN ACTION

Let's Talk About Your Work.

( my treat*)
We’ll unpack how to deepen, enliven and expand what you’re working on, perhaps identify something new to explore. If you’re not sure where to start ~ I’ll identify a pathway and a starting point for you. This Zoom chat is open to any medium, expression or level of experience.

DARLA VILLANI NYC
Artist, Creative Coach & Collaborator
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