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Art heals. Perhaps you already knows this. Perhaps you also know that true transformation is amplified in community. That love and joy are courageous, creative acts.
Art heals. Perhaps you already knows this. Perhaps you also know that true transformation is amplified in community. That love and joy are courageous, creative acts.
Maybe you are facing a challenge or transition and have no idea what's next. Maybe you want to build your portfolio of art experience and training. Maybe you are seeking greater grounding and resiliency. Maybe you crave connection with other creative people. If so, this program is for you.
Maybe you are facing a challenge or transition and have no idea what's next. Maybe you want to build your portfolio of art experience and training. Maybe you are seeking greater grounding and resiliency. Maybe you crave connection with other creative people. If so, this program is for you.
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The Performance Art Intensive (PAI) is a week-long, immersive retreat for creative, community-minded people. It is designed to bring participants into a circle of others around a shared, artistic goal. For six days, with the guidance of a team of healers, leaders and teaching artists, Performance Art Intensive participants connect, create, build, rehearse and ultimately, perform a wet clay performance art piece for a live audience. But PAI is more than just a group project - It's a temporary, experimental healing community.
A passionate leadership team of professional artists, performers and healers guide the week-long intensive. Sessions include movement, breath work, yoga, clay art, sound therapy, healing arts and time for reflection and group connection.
PAI was created and directed by twin cities- based artist, Summer Hills-Bonczyk. Summer's experience as a visual and performance artist, certified Kripalu yoga and meditation teacher and international retreat leader have informed her work as the creator and director of PAI and theWaterlines performance. She is dedicated to creative, community-based practice that centers embodied experience, collective joy and personal transformation with awareness and compassion.
For more information on the 2022 PAI leaders and teachers CLICK HERE.
The Theory and Practice of the Performance Art Intensive...
So much of what we do happens in only our minds and we lose connection to the essential nature of our full physical bodies. PAI is grounded in the idea that coming back to the physical body has the potential to cultivate deep self-awareness, healing and creativity.
This intensive places Craft at the center of our practice. Craft is an embodied activity that celebrates touch, gives us language for connecting more fully with the physical world. In this work, wet clay acts as a muse; fluid, malleable and humble. It is the center of many of the activities we engage and and is the primary medium of our final performance art piece.
"Craft is a verb, a set of behaviors, a way of thinking. Craft centers embodied experience, functional movement, and connection to the physical world. As a clay artist, I know that the stuff I work with is just refined dirt, mud, earth. It has very little inherent value. But through the act of shaping, squeezing and firing, an alchemy occurs and clay becomes meaningful and useful, transformed and transformative. Clay has intelligence, language, poetry.
Just as we can imagine the shape an object before we make it with soft clay, so too can we imagine and make ourselves and our collective future. During PAI Craft becomes a metaphor for transformation, an offering to the audience to participate in collective healing.
- Summer Hills-Bonczyk, Director
INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING?
INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING?
No prior experience with performance is required to be part of PAI. Just an open, curious mind and creative spirit.
No prior experience with performance is required to be part of PAI. Just an open, curious mind and creative spirit.
All are welcome.
All are welcome.
****SPRING 2024 NOTE: The very first PAI took place May, 2022. The final performance, Waterlines, was shared with a live audience on May 27th.
Watch video of the performance HERE
Funding for this first ever PAI was provided by an Artist Initiative project grant that Summer received from the MN State Arts Board.
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***There are currently no future PAI retreats scheduled.
As we evaluate the experience of our first year, we are eager to make plans for the future. Funding is our biggest barrier. The 2022 retreat and Waterlines performance was such a success that we are hoping to find a way to do it again and keep the waves of impact from our first experiment moving outward.
To join the mailing list and receive updates about upcoming PAI retreats and events, please contact summerjhb@gmail.com.
Stay tuned and please donate.
Stay tuned and please donate.
The Gremlin Theater, St. Paul, MN
The Gremlin Theater, St. Paul, MN
A professional black-box theater in the heart of St. Paul. Just 2 miles from Macalester College on University & Vandalia, located on Dakota land.
A professional black-box theater in the heart of St. Paul. Just 2 miles from Macalester College on University & Vandalia, located on Dakota land.
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