Creative Chaos International Summer School
“...a great experience for me
and in many respects the best week of my life”
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testimonials from students who have previously taken part
The following video shows 2011 York St.John University Summer
School and Caos in Terni, Italy:
The video below documents the live performance of Melancolia
Delicata, a devised collaborative, ensemble performance piece
with 14 dance, theatre and music students from Italy, Scotland and
England.
The work explores a defining English characteristic, Melancholy.
The performance does this from multiple perspectives with physical
and compositional delicacy. The creative process prepared
performers to make live compositional choices in the moment of
performance.
Students on the Creative Chaos Summer School:
Performance Strand 2010 participated in a series of intensive
improvisation workshops. These were led by Beth Cassani, David
Richmond, Wendy Houstoun and Guy Dartnell. The students worked
collaboratively over two weeks in York (UK) and Terni (Italy)
generating and composing fragments of material to create an hour
long improvised performance, which took place in the Caos Theatre
of the Creative Caos Centre in Terni. Melancolia Delicata
concluded a public festival of work produced by the Creative Chaos
Summer School, created by: Performers, Scriptwriters, Documentary
and Short Film-makers.
This film was a collaborative exercise between
a group of British and Italian documentary filmmakers and those on
the Short Film, Scriptwriting and Performance strands.
The partnership between the Performance and
Documentary students was so strong that members of the documentary
crew became an integral part of the act.
Performance
A series of workshops and performative
experiments designed to find different ways to create small
fragments of material and then apply diverse compositional
strategies for putting these fragment together…
Screenwriting Dynamics: From Script to
Screen
Venues for short scripts and films are increasing with the
popularity of internet sites such as Atom films. The shorter the
film the greater the work needed to make it
soar....
Documentary Filmmaking
Making a successful documentary is one of the
most rewarding ways of sharing your experiences of the world.
It enables you to bring together the sights and sounds of your life
or the lives of others...
For further information
E: creativebusiness@yorksj.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1904 876315
Some Photographs courtesy of colleagues
Nathan Walker & Pete Cook.