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| The Ship is sinking! E la nave va |
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And the Ship Sails On
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In Federico Fellini’s film, And the Ship Sails On, a community of artists travel to a
remote island to scatter the ashes of a beloved opera star. Unknown to the passengers,
a love-sick rhinoceros lies in the hold of the ship. When the vessel finally sinks after
an enemy attack, the narrator is left alone in a lifeboat with the rhino. He turns to
the audience and asks, “Did you know that a rhinoceros gives very good milk?”
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The arts can carry us to distant shores to mourn and also to celebrate. In difficult times,
we can be sure that the ship of the arts will sail on, a lifeboat for all of us – and for a
little bit of absurdity too. We hope to find very good
milk as well.
Stephen K. Levine
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Who may benefit from this event?
The annual Spring Symposium this year is open to all who are interested in personal and social change
through creative and artistic expression. Coaches, Consultants, Educators, Human Resources Specialists,
Therapists, and those engaged in conflict-transformation and peace-building are invited to participate.
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Learning Outcomes
In the spring symposium this year, participants will have an opportunity to increase their knowledge
and understanding of the Expressive Arts theory and practice by actively participating in the art
making process. The use of new artistic skills in order to expand one’s range of possibilities in
the arts is a challenge and the group context is a precious opportunity for one’s own professional
learning and personal growth. Participants will experience community art sessions, day-long studio
workshops, lectures, performances and special events in Lisbon and the surrounding area.
Hopefully, they will be able to transfer this learning and practice to their own context.
NBCC CEU's offered through the Department of Human Development & Psychological Counseling at the Appalachian State University, USA.
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Longing for the sea, dreaming a ship,
building it, launching it - then off we
sail
Paolo J. Knill and Melinda Meyer assisted by The Gypsy Harvest Annex
The art of building a community will be explored through these images.
Along the way we will create a performance for the last evening of our daily Community Art sessions.
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| Paolo J. Knill and Sally Atkins | |
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Gypsy Harvest Annex will be assisting Paolo Knill at the Community Art sessions.
Gypsy Harvest Annex is an intermodal performing ensemble featuring trombonist Harold McKinney, Percussionist Rob Falvo, harpist and vocalist Liz Rose, and poet Sally Atkins. All are faculty members and members of the Appalachian Expressive Arts Collective at Appalachian State University (Boone, North Carolina). They have performed together locally, nationally and internationally. McKinney, Falvo, and Atkins are recorded with Swiss Pianist Paolo Knill.
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Video taken from a community art session at the International Expressive Arts
Spring Symposium 2009.
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Playing in the Garden:
the art of installation
Ellen Levine and Jacques Stitelmann
The ship is always looking for a safe harbor to anchor and find shelter from the
storm.
We will find our materials and make temporary shelters and play spaces
to engage with each other.
Choreographing Poetry as Navigation:
a workshop in Performance,
dance and poetry
Margo Fuchs Knill and Markus Alexander
Making our way with the artist's compass.
Body as Ship, Body as Sea:
Improvisational Composition Ensemble
Judith Greer Essex and Andreas Meier
An Odyssey in the body-sea together through music, dance and theater.
Clown Opera:
a workshop in clown and theatre
Stephen K. Levine and Isabelle Schenkel
The ship is sinking! The clowns are singing! Come join the fun!
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| Fellini's Carnival - Pessoa's Masks
Presentation by Stephen K. Levine
Federico Fellini is the master of the carnivalesque. In his films the spirit of carnival, of masking and becoming other than oneself in order to embrace one's unexplored possibilities, is carried out to the extreme.
Fernando Pessoa, the Portuguese writer called "the representative poet of the century," uses the masks of different identities to become other, to live in alternative realities, and above all to escape tedium.
This lecture-presentation will refer to the work of Fellini and Pessoa to capture the sense of play and festivity that characterizes the field of expressive arts. There will also be some surprises...
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| BREATH MADE VISIBLE – A screening evening with Anna Halprin
A film by RUEDI GERBER
Presentation by Rosario Sammartino
“Dance is what you see, what you smell, is what you hear.”
ANNA HALPRIN
BREATH MADE VISIBLE is the first feature length film about the life and career of Anna
Halprin, the American dance pioneer who has helped redefine our notion of modern art
by exploring one question in her work: What is important in life?
The search for that answer has ushered in such revolutionary experimentation in
theater, music, and performance that it's reach extends beyond the arts and into our
cultural conscious. Anna has not only succeeded in fusing art and life but has
developed a new mindset: one that hails the vitality of existence and debunks the
'limitations of age.'
The film takes its audience from Halprin’s initial explorations of dance in
her childhood to the experimental performances conducted on a dance deck under
Californian redwood trees, through her spectacular tours in Europe, her withdrawal from
the stage due to illness, and, finally, her triumphant return.
Previously unreleased archival footage further extends the subject matter from a
personal portrait of an artist to what is essentially the history of the socially and
politically committed art of dance performance in North America.
In a profoundly touching interview, the late Merce Cunningham reflects: “Anna is a prophet, a
philosopher.” In 1955, Anna established the world-famous San Francisco Dancers
Workshop, which included John Graham and A.A. Leath. They would go on to earned
the highest critical acclaim and controversy in Sweden while causing scandal in the U.S.
for their use of nudity in their performances. In the ‘60s, Halprin would break down more
barriers by finding the first multicultural dance company – a poignant symbol of black
and white coming together.
At the heart of the film is Anna's relationship to her husband and world renowned
architect, Lawrence Halprin (Roosevelt Memorial), which allows the film to transcend
the medium of dance, just as Anna’s work does, to become a universal tale about
survival and expression.
An early pioneer in the expressive arts healing movement, the film delves into Anna's
work with cancer patients (Anna herself is a survivor), AIDS patients, and the elderly
through the use of dance as a method of healing and becoming whole. As she recalls:
“Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art, after I had cancer I lived my art for my
life.”
The recent battles that her own husband has been waging with illness would lead Anna
to turn her grief into art once more through the dance routine “Intensive Care” in 2004.
With the aid of truly awe-inspiring footage, Halprin can be seen making her triumphant
return to the stage at the youthful age of 80. A few years later, during her 15 minute solo
performance at the sold out Joyce Theater in New York, Halprin profoundly whispered
to her audience: “There are so many more dances yet to do – with all you!”
People from all over the world are loving it!...
[See more]
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| Souvenir(s) d’ image(s). Image(s) de souvenir(s)
A short introduction to Phototherapy
Presentation by Brigitte Anor
The significance of the potential of photography as a springboard for a dialogue
with the different art therapies: a photographic image can be a source of inspiration
for creative writing, a starting point for visual art work or a basis for developing a
psychodrama.
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Workshop A - Playing in the Garden (Ellen Levine and Jacques Stitelmann ) - Room 3
Workshop B - Choreographing Poetry as Navigation (Margo Fuchs Knill and Markus Alexander ) - Room 1
Workshop C - Body as Ship, Body as Sea (Judith Greer and Andreas Meier ) - Room 4
Workshop D - Clown Opera (Stephen K. Levine and Isabelle Schenkel ) - Room 2
HOW TO GET TO THE HOTEL FROM THE AIRPORT:
AEROSHUTTLE
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DIRECTION: AIRPORT –> PRAÇA ESPANHA (From 7H40 – 22H10)
FREQUENCY: Every 30 minutes
TICKETS: Boarding ticket (3,50 euros)
Bus to be taken in front of the airport near the taxi/bus stops.
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Paolo J. Knill, Ph.D., Dr.h.c.
Musician and performance artist. Rector of the European Graduate School. Prof. Emeritus of Lesley University Cambridge MA. Co-founder of the International Network of Expressive Arts Training Centers. Author of Minstrels of Soul: Intermodal Expressive Therapy and other books.
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| Margo N. Fuchs Knill, Ph.D
Poet, licensed poetry therapist and supervisor. Dean of the Masters Program in Expressive Arts, The European Graduate School. Works in private practice and teaches at training institutes in Europe and USA. Author of Season-ing Life and co-author of Minstrels of Soul: Intermodal Expressive Therapy and other books.
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Stephen K. Levine, Ph.D., D.S.Sc.
Poet, actor and clown. Vice-Rector and Dean of the Doctoral Program in Expressive Arts, The European Graduate School. Author of Trauma, Tragedy, Therapy: The Arts and Human Suffering and other books.
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Ellen Levine, MSW, PhD.
Painter and clown. Core faculty and Dean of Individualized Study at EGS. Faculty and co-founder of ISIS Canada, Senior Staff Social Worker, The Hincks-Dellcrest Centre for Children’s Mental Health in Toronto. Author of Tending the Fire: Studies in Art, Therapy and Creativity and other books.
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Jacques Stitelmann, PhD.
Artist with images and words. Psychotherapist and Director of L'ATELIER, Geneva. Principal author of the collective book, Au-delà de l'image. Author of the website www.poietique.ch
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Judith Greer Essex, PhD., REAT, LMFT
Director of the Expressive Arts Institute, San Diego. Teaches at the European Graduate School, Lesley University and Alliant University. Her interests include adult learning, the body in psychology, metaphor in performance, her garden and her family.
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Melinda Ashley Meyer, PhD
PhD in Expressive Arts, Researcher at the Norwegian Study Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress. Director and Co- founder of the Norwegian Institute for Expressive Arts and communication. Director of Psychodrama and trained as bioenergetic-therapist.
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Margareta Wärja, MA, CAGS, PhD Candidate*
Musician, expressive arts therapist, music therapist, licensed psychotherapist. Director of Training Expressive Arts, Stockholm.
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Markus Alexander, MA, CAGS, PhD Candidate
Multi-disciplinary artist, actor and dance-theatre improviser, Expressive Arts Therapist, founder and Director of World Arts Organization in Alberta, Canada.
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Andreas C. Meier M.A., CAGS
Dancer and performing artist in Switzerland, Europe and abroad with a main interest in improvisational collaborative work.
Teacher at ISIS Switzerland and at the European Graduate School. Works on his own private practice and at an acute day clinic in Zurich.
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Isabelle Schenkel M.A. Social Sciences, PhD candidate
Teacher at L’Atelier in Geneva, supervisor and clown.
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Brigitte Anor, Ph.D.**
Founder of the Photo Therapy Institute, "Musrara" - Jerusalem, Israel. She teaches at
the Institute and at the Tel-Aviv University in a continuing education unit for social
workers and people in allied helping professions.
Brigitte has led workshops in different places in Israel and in Europe enabling
participants to experience the process of a contemplation of their life story, whilst
working with personally meaningful photographs. As an expressive art therapist, she
stresses the significance of the potential of photography as a springboard for a dialogue
with the different art therapies.
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Rosario Sammartino, MA in Psychology, PhD candidate*
Tamalpa Institute Co-Director for Latin America, she is a Certified Tamalpa
Practitioner and an Associate Teacher of the Tamalpa Institute.
Born in Buenos Aires - Argentina, Rosario Sammartino is currently teaching the
Tamalpa Life/Art process in California and Buenos Aires where she maintains her
private practice. She has extensively studied with Anna Halprin on Community Art and
Ritual, as well as with Daria Halprin in expressive arts facilitation and therapy,
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Mónica Sorin, PhD in Psychology*
Psychodramatist. Co-Director of the ISPA Barcelona for the Master in “Arteterapia
Transdisciplinaria y Desarrollo Humano”.
Professor at the University in Havana (1964-1993) and Buenos Aires (1993-2003).
Staff member at the European Graduate School (EGS).
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Herbert Eberhart, PH.D**
Social worker and clinical psychologist. Co-founder and former President of the European Foundation of Interdisciplinary Studies EGIS. Director of the post-graduate program at Zurich School of Social Work and teacher at several institutes of higher education. Active in private practice as a supervisor and family therapist. Expert in Solution-Oriented Therapy and Counseling.
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Sally Atkins, Ed.D*
Professor of Human Development and Psychological Counseling and Faculty Psychologist at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Teaches expressive arts therapy in the graduate counseling program at Appalachian and received the University of North Carolina board of governors Outstanding Teaching Award in 1999. Her publications range from poetry and dream work to issues in higher education. Practicing psychotherapist for 27 years and member of the American Academy of Psychotherapists. Founder member of the Appalachian Expressive Arts Collective and co-author of their collaborative book: “Expressive Arts; An Invitation to the Journey”.
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Elizabeth Mckim, MA, Poet Laureate, EGS**
An engaging poet-performer and teacher, well-known to Boston audiences and students of all ages. She works out of the oral tradition of song, story, and poem. She has published four books of poetry and has worked with countless children and teachers throughout the USA and internationally. She is Poet Laureate at EGS and an adjunct faculty member at Lesley University in the Department of Creative Arts in Learning.
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