Since 1993, Guillermo Gómez-Peña and members of the La Pocha Nostra performance troupe have conducted cross-cultural/cross-disciplinary/cross-generational workshops involving performance artists, actors, dancers, and students from diverse ethnic communities, generations, and artistic backgrounds.

This 4-hour workshop will provide participants with an introduction to the interdisciplinary pedagogy created by performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. The session will focus on performance art and the human body as a site for creation, reinvention, memory, and activism. Participants will be exposed to La Pocha Nostra's most recent performance methodologies, an eclectic combination of exercises borrowed from multiple traditions including performance art, experimental theater and dance, the Suzuki method, performative rituals, and performance games. 

Workshop co-instructed by La Pocha Nostra members Balitronica Gómez and Guillermo Gómez-Peña.

 

Who should attend?

Performance artists, experimental actors, dancers, theorists, activists, and students interested in the topics addressed by La Pocha Nostra. Ages can range from 18 to 80 years old. Applicants must have some performance experience, and must be familiar with La Pocha Nostra’s work. The workshop is extremely fun but both physically and intellectually rigorous.

The ‘Pocha workshop’ is internationally recognized as an amazing and rigorous artistic and anthropological experiment in which artists from several countries and every imaginable artistic, ethnic, multi-cultural, and gender persuasion begin to negotiate common ground. Performance becomes the connective tissue and lingua franca for our temporary community of rebel artists.

 

How to sign up

The workshop is limited to 16 participants. Must be 18 or older. Participation is free. 

 

This event is presented in conjunction with Bellwether 2018, the City of Bellevue’s annual arts festival. Learn more at bellwetherartsweek.org.

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