ON'T LET YOUR ADS
FALL FAR FROM
An Installation
For Improvisation
Workshops open to area artists will culminate
in a special presentation on human-rights issues.
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portion of the workshops.
"I need to find ways to facilitate
expression so participants can
make discoveries about them-
selves as well as the installation.
There is the potential to express
feelings on an individual basis or
as an ensemble."
Nehan advises participants to
prepare by being open to emo-
tionally charged experiences. "My
role will be to facilitate respons-
es so things will happen like im-
provisational theater," said
Nehan, who has conducted psy-
chodrama sessions at the Birm-
ingham Temple. "As a theater
director and teacher, I think what
happens has to
be spontaneous,
up-front and per-
sonal."
While Nehan
had not worked
with Sperka be-
fore this pro-
gram, he has
taken on projects
with Kramer. He
is involved with
arts-centered ed-
ucation in the
Detroit Public
Schools, using
arts training as
a way to teach
all subjects.
"This event is
designed to give
individuals and
Members of the Detroit Dance Collective prepare for the arts
workshop: (from left) Kay Rediers, Anastasia McGlothlin and groups an op-
portunity
to
Barbara Selinger.
comment on hu-
and Rights" workshops will be man-rights issues that resonate
held Feb. 7, 9 and 10 at the Corn- in our personal lives, in our com-
munity Arts Gallery at Wayne munity . and globally," said
State University, where partici- Kramer, whose organization is
pants will have a culminating presenting the program with the
performance/exhibition at 3 p.m. art and art history department of
Sunday, Feb. 16. Conversations Wayne State University. Fund-
with the artists will follow the ing is through the Michigan
Council for Arts and Cultural Af-
performance.
The workshops will be pre- fairs. 0
sented under the shared direction
lgt "A Personal Conamunity:
of two arts specialists in addition
Rites and Rights" workshops
to Sperka, who will assist partic-
run from 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
ipants in creating visual arts. Jeff
Friday, Feb. 7; 5-7 p.m. Sun-
Nehan, director of Actors Alliance
day, Feb. 9; and 4:30-7:30 p.m.
and the Millennium Theatre, will
Monday, Feb. 10, at the Com-
assist with the dramatic and writ-
munity Arts Gallery at Wayne
ten reactions, while a perfor-
State lJniversity, where the
mance piece will be choreo-
performance/exhibition will be
graphed by Paula Kramer, co-di-
held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16.
rector of Detroit Dance Collective.
Deanna Sperka's installation
`This is an opportunity to take
will be on view from 10 a.m.-7
an artistic experience to a height-
p.m. Mondays-Fridays and 11.
ened level," said Nehan, who has
am.-4 p.m. Saturdays through
set aside time to become familiar
Feb.
24 at the gallery. For in-
with all the elements of the in-
formation, call (313) 965-3544.
stallation before conducting his
A
PHOTO BY TOM KRAMER
gallery installation based on
the theme of terrorism be-
comes the focal point for free
workshops open to artists of
all disciplines and skill levels.
Deanna Sperka has displayed
"Terrorism, A Work in Progress"
in the past, but soon her work of
photos, videos and sculpture will
be used to seek very personal re-
sponses expressed as graphics,
drama, dance and other creative
forms.
Those who have seen the in-
stallation in other settings will
get a new perspective as it is as-
sembled differently for this space.
"A Personal Community: Rites
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