Since 1919, The New School has been home to scholars, creators, and activists who challenge convention and boldly make their mark on the world. To celebrate this groundbreaking legacy, we are opening our doors to the public for a weeklong festival of innovative performances, talks, workshops, screenings, exhibitions, and more.
On October 1–6, 2019, join us as we reflect on a century of world-changing ideas and together imagine a new kind of future.
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Portfolio 1 provides students with a foundation in the vocabulary of performance through a variety of ensemble building and performance-making techniques. The class explores how artists collaborate to generate new material. A series of critical readings on creativity, performance theory, and techniques inform the course. This course investigates the creative process for the artist via the improvisational techniques of association, development and reintegration to develop original work, and creative impulses related to source material.