STRINGS - a special talk with Jef Johnson
Free to Public
7:00 pm Wednesday May 30, 2012
MAC 650 Gallery & Artist Co-Op
650 Main Street, Middletown, CT
Jef Johnson is a leader in the field of performance
theory. His research focuses on naive experience, consciousness, play,
patterned behavior and social identity. He is a principle artist in the
Broadway and International touring company of Slava’s Sn...owshow. He
has also worked with Cirque du Soleil as clown-animator, special
artistic consultant and workshop director. He has been investigating
personal perception, performance and play for the past 25 years and has
more than 20 years of experience working in live performance. He has
given Master Classes, Conferences and Workshops to many organizations,
theaters and universities including Cirque du Soleil, Slava’s Snowshow,
Circo Sentido, Circo de Mente, Camp Broadway, University of Houston,
University of Pennsylvania, Colombia University, University of
Minnesota, CUNY, SUNY, NYU, UNAM, UDEM, UQROO, and CENART. He is
director of Mascara/Clown and is on the faculty of the Nouveau Clown
Institute in Barcelona, Spain. Currently he is in Mexico, conducting
research into the nature of human consciousness, creative association
and social performance. Drawing from Clown, Mask and Butoh, his work has
initiated deeper investigation into the primary essence of human
experience, character and performance.
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