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Dragon Dance Theatre's 12th Pan American Puppetry Arts Institute -- Winter 2010-- a one month residency in Jalpan de Serra, Queretaro, Mexico  

 The dates are December 10 to January 8.  We are preparing for an intense, experimental and improvisational theatre lab, plus a plastic  arts workshop, focusing on natural, local materials, with which we will make masks, sets and costumes. 

   In this laboratory we will conceive, create, and mount a cross-cultural, collective creation, with all the resident artists. Together we will imagine, and realize our own creative Utopia.  We will make a peaceful, historically relevant, community art event.  We will dance and sing, make music, break bread,  laugh, and inspire one another, while working in our chosen fields, to make a memorable public performance. We will have fun. We will work. We will create our own world of cultural exchange, cooperation and creation. 

This is a fully integrated, in depth, immersion. Working environment, shoulder to shoulder with Mexican artists, dancers, actors, puppeteers...practice your spanish, meet the artistic community.  

Dragon Dance Theatre is dedicated to process:

Learning by participating in the process of creating relevant ethical theatre using contemporary methods that encourage full creative participation by all members of the company. We focus on cultural exchange, collective creation and mythodrama.

We produce workshops that allow resident artist to share their ideas and perceptions about contemporary life, and relevant issues, in a playful creative way, which leads to performing theatrical pieces for the community.

We work in the Americas, mostly Mexico, as well as in Europe. Residents who join us have a chance to express, socialize and dramatize their own unique point of view. We collaborate with experienced theatre artists, actors, dancers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, to transform ideas into performable dramas, pageants and parades. Whether one comes for two weeks or a month the experience is sure to give insights and practice in how to make theatre in it's broadest sense. 

We propose workshops in performance, mask making, dance, movement, improvisation, voice, theatre skills, imagining, creating, and handling giant puppets

more info on our web page:

http://dragondancetheatre.com/index.html