The Actor's Process: Creating on the EdgeCANCELLED
Peter Goldfarb
This class is an eye-opening adventure in theatrical learning and creation. Students will awaken and encounter their intuitive and creative resources and develop skills that they will be able to apply to any performance discipline. By focusing on personal process as the basic ground of creativity, each student will discover his or her unique and vast repertoire of resources, which will lead to an experience of authentic empowerment and the possibility of a new paradigm for creative works. Further, students will be able to identify and enact the broad cast of characters that they already carry within themselves, as well as allow the expression of natural voice, movement, feeling and play to emerge. The work will include training in performance improvisation, dream work, guided fantasy awareness training, environmental exploration and theater games.
Peter Goldfarb is an award-winning producer, director and actor. A founding faculty member and former trustee of Naropa University, he is the vice president of the UNESCO/International Theatre Institute Education and Training Committee. He is the recipient of the 1996 best actor award from Drama-Logue and a 1997 Helen Hayes award nominee for outstanding performer. Please visit: www.petergoldfarb.com.
February 16–21
Fri 7–9 p.m. • Sat & Sun 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
Mon & Wed 6:30–9 p.m.
Non-credit: $250, $212.50 before January 26
Friday night only: $15 ($10 students/seniors) CANCELLED
Chop Wood, Hone Prose, Carry Water, Tell a Story
Kurt Gutjahr
Far too often, as writers, we are too close to our own work and so fail to understand what we've created. We can't see the story we feel driven to tell, nor do we understand how to expose it. As with many things, the devil is in the details. In this prose class, we'll forge a community of writers by exploring those details—dialogue, description, setting, characterization and prose—to create a story that is more than the sum of its parts. This class is appropriate for writers of all abilities. You only need to come with a desire to share and a willingness to set aside ego for the greater purpose of story.
Kurt Gutjahr (MFA, The Iowa Writers' Workshop) has taught writing at four universities—The University of Montana, The University of New Mexico, The University of Iowa and Naropa University. He has studied with two-time Booker Award winner, Jim Crace, and Pulitzer Prize winners, Marilynne Robinson and James Alan McPhereson, as well as with Pulitzer finalist Adam Haslett. His stories have won the D.H. Lawrence Award for Short Fiction and he has been a finalist in numerous nationwide contests. Most recently, he was published in the The Roanoke Review. He has worked with a variety of writers’ conferences and has served as a fiction editor and managing editor of the nationally distributed magazine, The Blue Mesa Review.
Tuesdays • February 20–April 17
6–8 p.m. (No class March 27)
Non-credit: $256, $217.60 by February 3
A $12 materials fee is payable to the instructor.
In this course you learn to capture the figure through the techniques of the Old Masters. The innovation of the Renaissance and Dutch masters was to combine visual poetry with a newly acquired scientific knowledge. Each class begins with a short talk about anatomy and muscle structure. Body paint is used to paint the muscles on live models. The instructor demonstrates how to convey movement, rhythm, mass and line, how to determine correct proportions and measurements, and the use of light and shade to create three-dimensional effects. He also provides individual feedback to each student. Participants can expect to gain knowledge of how to draw, practical knowledge of the Masters’ concepts and techniques, some knowledge of art history and knowledge of basic anatomy for the artist.
Joshua Fallik is a working artist who has taught drawing and painting for the past twenty-three years at schools including the Art League of New York, The New School, Scottsdale Artists' School, University of Colorado, White Rock School of Art in Vancouver, B.C., Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, and at Very Special Arts at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. He is featured in the DVD, Video Oil Painting Portait from Life, produced by Lilliendahl Productions.
Monday through Friday, July 23–27
9 a.m.–4 p.m.
Noncredit: $495
This intensive weekend workshop will focus on learning to speak the rhythms of the tabla, classical drums of North India, as well as learning to play grooves on the frame drum as an ensemble. The ancient tradition of Indian drumming reveals an intricate approach to understanding phrasing, poly-rhythm and improvisation. We will also delve into the ideas of nada brahma, sound and rhythm being an access to the divine, and deepen our understanding of how we can more fully be in rhythm with our selves, each other, and our environment.
Ty Burhoe is internationally known as one of the finest young world fusion tabla/percussionists in the music industry today and is a disciple of the great drumming virtuoso, Ustad Zakir Hussain. Ty is known for his unusual and creative collaborations, along with his explorations in finding new musical settings for the tabla. He has toured with Krishna Das for the last several years, and accompanied performers like Bela Fleck, Ustad Sultan Khan and Kitaro. www.tyburhoe.com
February 24–25
Sat, Sun 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Saturday night concert 7:30 p.m. (see below)
Non-credit: $275, $233.75 by Feb. 3
Illuminations: The Sacred Alchemy of Oil Glazing
Teresa Dunwell
Learn the Old Masters technique of oil glazing, a unique process that creates a luminous finish on a prepared wooden surface. You will begin by mindfully preparing your painting surface, including sanding and gessoing your board. Then you will learn how to mix your own glazes or paints, from an emulsion of egg, oils, water and powdered pigments. Using the hand-made, real pigment glazes, Teresa explains how to layer the glazes to build the translucent colors into a luminously finished painting. Teresa will inspire you to explore the spirituality, passion and vision of the creative process behind each piece, creating depth and dimension. The class is designed for participants to complete two paintings. All levels of creativity welcome—beginners to professionals.
Teresa Dunwell received a BA from Adams State College and apprenticed with Marika Popovits, Hungarian visionary artist for the last seventeen years. She was taught to make paints like the Renaissance Masters and to learn the process of painting on wood. She embraces the technique because it brings out the alchemy of creation and meditation that exists when one is centered in this process.
Summer Course Tuesdays • June 5-July 24
6:30-9 p.m.
Non-credit: $645, $550 by May 22
Price includes $150 materials fee
Please note: the tuition and materials fee is not refundable after May 29.
Introduction to Contemplative Design: Anchoring InspirationCANCELLED
Mary Lou Robles
This series of short courses focuses on design process using ML Robles’ PatternMapping™ tool and method to guide inspiration. The course begin with a tour of buildings and places that embody contemplative design and concludes with a working understanding of this new design tool. We will introduce you to a comprehensive way of understanding and using the environment of your work to evoke intuitive intelligence. The case studies used in the presentation are architecture- and planning-focused, but this methodology can be translated to any discipline that relies on creative decision making and whose environment can be documented. PatternMapping™’s focus is to help designers transform contextual information into design intelligence.
ML Robles, NCARB Architect, LEED AP, is an architect and university instructor with more than twenty-eight years of design and teaching experience. She has developed methods such as PatternMapping™ and artifact-based design to help designers get beyond their ego and remain connected to their source of inspiration. She received her Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Arizona where she had the opportunity to meet renowned architect Luis Barragan, and her Master of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) where she studied with Ray Kappe. ML Robles is an architect in private practice with Studio Points Architecture and research in Boulder and a green building materials consultant with Ambient Energy in Golden. For more information visit www.studiopoints.com.
Wednesdays • February 28–March 21
7–9 p.m.
Non-credit: $120, $102 by February 7 CANCELLED
Using a big brush (a full horse tail) to create large banners of ink brushwork is an expanding, empowering experience. As a full-body process, this work integrates movement and visual expression as well as focused intention and spontaneous outcome. Artists (and non-artists) of all kinds will find this a joyous and broadening experience. No prior experience is necessary. Only a willingness to expand your spirit and to dance with brush and ink!
Bob Wing, MA, is a sculptor, third degree aikido blackbelt, Trager therapist and director of the Aiki Institute. He studied calligraphy with Barbara Bash, and has taught brush workshops nationwide. Dedicated to the enhancement and transformation of art and warriorship, he is currently working on his doctorate in theology. He has taught at Naropa since 1982.
March 2–3
Fri 7–9 p.m. • Sat 9:30 a.m.– 4 p.m.
Friday night only $15 ($10 students/seniors)
Non-credit: $100, $90 by February 3
Friday night only: $15 ($10 students/seniors)
A $15 materials fee is payable to the instructor. CANCELLED
Fun Ink: Unleashing the Fire of Your Inner Writer
Tama J. Kieves
Do you have a novel in your head, poems in a drawer or just the persistent feeling you're supposed to write? Wish your writing had more soul or juice? It's time to silence inner critics and distractions and set free the natural writer within you. In a safe and synergistic environment, creative writing coach and best-selling author Tama Kieves will show you how to get past resistance and write with raw power, joy, and sparkle, and how to navigate the extraordinary journey of becoming a writer. You will learn how to stay focused, fearless and excited about your writing, and leave with sure-fire ways to discover your creative direction and continue on the creative path you are called to travel.
Tama J. Kieves, a former Harvard-trained attorney, left law to follow her love of writing. She is the best-selling author of This Time I Dance! Creating the Work You Love, a finalist for the national Nautilus book award, and has helped thousands worldwide to live their creative dreams. Visit her at www.AwakeningArtistry.com
Friday evening talk, 7 p.m., March 23
Saturday, March 24
10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Non-credit: $105, $89.25 by March 2
Friday night only: $15 ($10 students/seniors)
A $5 materials fee is payable to the instructor.
Reclaim your voice as a writer by honoring your own instincts, your own language, your own rhythms and your own story. This workshop is for anyone who wants to write, has written or wants to jumpstart the power source of creativity. Nancy promises to create a safe space in which to celebrate who you are without the judgment of the mental censor, and in which to write with renewed innocence and astounding power. This workshop is a reminder that the truth is healing, and that when you shake the inner critic of your work, you have a good start at shaking the inner critic of your life.
Friday night talk:
How to Keep Your Heart Open in Hell
The author of Writing from the Heart, Nancy Slonim Aronie has taught at Trinity and Harvard universities, and was the recipient of the Eric Bok Teacher of the Year award at Harvard and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Eye of the Beholder award. She has also been a television performer, a columnist for McCalls and a contributor to NPR’s All Things Considered. www.chilmarkwritingworkshop.com
May 4–6
Fri 7–9 p.m. • Sat 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Sun 10 a.m.–1 p.m.
Non-credit: $225, $191.25 before April 13
Friday night only: $15 ($10 students/seniors)
Visionary Collage: A Workshop for Women
Pamela Horner
Through an uplifting combination of discussion, life-coaching exercises, and journaling, life coach and artist Pam Horner will guide you to focus on what you value most in life. In an inspiring and powerful combination of self-reflection and creativity, you will then create a personal deck of cards using collage as the medium and your personal values as the content. These cards will become a treasured possession to be used for years to come when making personal decisions during life's transitions.
Pam Horner, MA, is a creative life coach with a strong background in printmaking, collage, and other art forms. She has a master's degree in Arts Education, and is passionate about helping people tap into their natural creativity so they can live more fulfilling lives. She owns The Creative Flow Studio in Boulder. www.thecreativeflow.com
Saturday, Sunday June 2–3
10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Non-credit: $225, $191.25 by May 11
A $15 materials fee is payable to the instructor.
Listening to Our Bodies: Body Mask-Making
Myrna Castaline
Our bodies hold memories and emotions which are our life stories; stories of birth, pleasure, aging, illness, joy, wounding and life transitions. Mask-making is a way to symbolically map this journey, and as we observe our creations and absorb their meaning, our ability to express and release emotions—and find healing—grows. In this class, you will create a mask made on a part of your body, exploring through meditation, movement, dialogue, and writing the emotional terrain it evokes, with a deep quality of listening in. This class is for women only. No experience necessary. Bring a journal and messable clothes.
Myrna Castaline is passionate about the mystery, magic and power of mask-making as a creative self-reflective process. Since 1987, she has presented engaging, insightful workshops at conferences, youth correctional facilities, UCLA Extension, schools and private settings for adventures on the path of self-discovery. She integrates mask-making with her experience in movement, Vipassana meditation and Polarity Therapy.
Thursdays • June 7–28, 6–9 p.m.
Non-credit: $212, $180.20 by May 17
A $10 materials fee is payable to the instructor.
Many of us have a desire to perform and play but are more comfortable writing, reading or reflecting. Our fear or formality gets in the way of doing many things we might enjoy. This class teaches theatrical improvisation within a safe atmosphere that encourages fear to transform into laughter, and creative impulse to move to expression without inhibition. Participants will discover ways to playfully engage with others while learning improvisation exercises drawn from Playback Theater, Action Theater, and comedic improvisation. Participants will also develop short dramatic monologues to help them expand ways they feel comfortable expressing themselves. Each week, students will be given simple and fun assignments to expand the laughter and play of the classroom into their daily lives. If you have been interested in improvisation and performing but were not sure if it was in your character to do it, this is a theater course for you.
Kirsten Wilson is an introverted performer who has been improvising and teaching theater since she left the library in 1991. She has studied and performed various improvisational forms and has taught both Playback Theater and contact improvisation. She also teaches dramatic monologue classes and currently performs with Playback Theater West. She has an MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University.
Thursdays • June 14–July 19
6:30–9 p.m.
Non-credit: $265, $225.25 by May 24
Being in Theatre: The Personal Voice
Peter Goldfarb
Theater and life are often indistinguishable. The path to genuine creative fulfillment presents many obstacles, some self-imposed by our own habitual patterns, some from external conditioning. Often, the structures and devices of the methods we are taught promote more self-consciousness than consciousness, and the forms that we are given seem more the product of artistic ego than authentic models with which we can identify and resonate. This workshop, through specific experiential exercises, provides a means of transcending these obstacles by reconnecting with the intuition of direct experience. This affirmation of our unique and vast personal resources can result in an experience of authentic empowerment and lead to a whole new paradigm for creative work. Our process involves training and practice in various mind-body and creative disciplines including Buddhist space awareness, theater games and improvisations, dreamwork, Gestalt awareness, and guided fantasy. The workshop is open to actors, non-actors and anyone interested or involved in the wonder of the creative process.
Peter Goldfarb is an award-winning producer, director and actor. A founding faculty member and former trustee of Naropa University, he is the vice president of the UNESCO/International Theatre Institute Education and Training Committee. He is the recipient of the 1996 Best Actor award from Drama-Logue and a 1997 Helen Hayes Award nominee for Outstanding Performer. Please visit: www.petergoldfarb.com.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, June 15–20
Fri 7–9 p.m. • Sat & Sun 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
Mon & Wed 6:30–9 p.m.
Non-credit: $250, $212.50 by May 25
Friday night only: $15 ($10 students/seniors)
Sacred Geometry and Geomancy
Dominique Susani, PhD
The art of sacred geometry, the tradition that underlies the megalithic momentums, temples and cathedrals of Europe, offers practical guidance for aligning our homes and our lives with the energies of the Earth. Dominique Susani, who has studied with masters of this tradition in France, has devoted himself to the revival of this nearly lost European art. This course will introduce students to the history, theory and essential principles of this tradition, as well acquaint them with the body’s ability to read Earth energies. We will engage in hands-on experience of sensing, design and alignment. This course will be of interest to all who wish to work with Earth energies—architects, landscape designers, environmental consultants, students of the environment, not to mention poets, artists and all who wish to understand this ancient art that is so relevant and so needed today.
June 22–24
Fri 7–9 p.m. • Sat 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Sun 10 a.m.–3 p.m.
Non-credit: $275, $220 by
Friday night only: $15 ($10 students/seniors)
Sacred Geometry: Advanced Training
Dominique Susani, PhD
In this advanced, five-day intensive, students will delve more deeply into the history, philosophy and specific practices of Sacred Geometry. This advanced course will cover subjects such as the geometrical structure of mandalas; square energy and telluric energy, circular energy and cosmic energy, circular distribution of the elements, the megalithic energetics; theory of the stones, introduction to the circular energetic structures and an introduction to Megalithic Labyrinths.
Dominique Susani is a master of the ancient art of sacred stones and sites, and is an authority on Earth energies. He has devoted himself to the revival of this European tradition. He brings a deep sensitivity to Earth energies, a devotion to on-going exploration, and humor to this inspiring art.
Monday Through Thursday, June 25–28
9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Non-credit: $625, $530 by June 4
Horizon: The Apparent Juncture of Earth and Sky
Laurie Doctor
As artists we are drawn to the relationship between the visible and the invisible. The horizon line is universally understood, and yet, as contemporary artist Bill Viola states, it is not a thing in itself or a place that can be found on any map. It is where things appear and disappear. It is our longing—as we walk forward the horizon recedes out of reach. We will begin with the horizon line as a universal image with simple exercises and then explore the horizon in context by examining principles in landscape that can be communicated through writing (such as pattern, distance and scale). The tools we will use include graphite, sumi ink and watercolor. We will make simple portfolios of our work.
Laurie Doctor, is a visual artist and comtemplative practioner who has been adjunct art faculty with Naropa University. Her interest in this class stems from years of thought on Western and Chinese calligraphy, poetry, painting and drawing—all of these studies having at the heart a relationship to quality of line. The visual characteristics of these disciplines is combined with a love for literature, poetry and mythology which were the heart of her under-graduate studies in the states and Europe.
Monday Through Friday June 25-29
$495, $420.75 before June 4
Materials fee $20
The Pleasure of Seeing: An In-Town Painting Retreat
Joan Anderson
Renounce your usual daily schedule and join artist Joan Anderson for five days of painting this summer. This retreat is an opportunity to immerse yourself in the practice of painting, a vehicle for heightening the pleasure of seeing. The retreat is daily time, morning and afternoon, devoted to painting, drawing, and visual research practices. Confidence in painting and the pleasure of seeing are the results. The retreat is suitable for seasoned painters and daring beginners.
Joan Anderson is a painter, a contemplative, and an educator. In November 2005, she did a month-long solo painting retreat—the inspiration for this class. Her connection to retreat practice developed during the six years she and her husband, painter Robert Spellman, managed Dorje Khyung Dzong, a Buddhist retreat center in Southern Colorado. In 1996 they founded and began developing Mountain Water, a retreat center for artists. http://www.joanandersonart.com
Monday Through Friday • July 9–13
9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Non-credit: $495, $420.75 by June 18
In this course you learn to capture the figure through the techniques of the Old Masters. The innovation of the Renaissance and Dutch masters was to combine visual poetry with a newly acquired scientific knowledge. Each class begins with a short talk about anatomy and muscle structure. Body paint is used to paint the muscles on live models. The instructor demonstrates how to convey movement, rhythm, mass and line, how to determine correct proportions and measurements, and the use of light and shade to create three-dimensional effects. He also provides individual feedback to each student. Participants can expect to gain knowledge of how to draw, practical knowledge of the Masters’ concepts and techniques, some knowledge of art history and knowledge of basic anatomy for the artist.
Joshua Fallik is a working artist who has taught drawing and painting for the past twenty-three years at schools including the Art League of New York, The New School, Scottsdale Artists' School, University of Colorado, White Rock School of Art in Vancouver, B.C., Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, and at Very Special Arts at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. He is featured in the DVD, Video Oil Painting Portait from Life, produced by Lilliendahl Productions.
Monday through Friday, July 23–27
9 a.m.–4 p.m.
Noncredit: $495
Da Vinci used color temperature to achieve the illusion of immense depth. Rembrandt used light and placement of minor visual elements to control the way the viewer perceives his painting, introducing an element of time, mystery and storytelling. In this traditional painting workshop, Joshua incorporates these and other techniques, from the old to contemporary masters, into still life and portrait painting.
Learn how to create a unified, harmonious painting by using light flow, color temperature and space. Combining vision with reality is emphasized to create successful storytelling paintings with movement and visual culmination. Students incorporate the tools of the Old Masters, including A la prima and glazing, into their own artistic pursuit.
Joshua Fallik is a working artist who has taught drawing and painting for the past twenty-three years at schools including the Art League of New York, The New School, Scottsdale Artists' School, University of Colorado, White Rock School of Art in Vancouver, B.C., Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, and at Very Special Arts at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. He is featured in the DVD, Video Oil Painting Portait from Life produced by Lilliendahl Productions.
Class includes instructor demonstrations and individual instruction. Open to beginning and advanced artists.
Monday Through Friday • July 30–August 3
9 a.m.–4 p.m.
Non-credit: $495, $420 by July 9
