Institute for Contemporary Performance
PETE’s year-long training program featuring an integrated curriculum that includes Alexander Technique, Suzuki, Viewpoints, Clown, Devising, and more.
PETE's Institute for Contemporary Performance
A year-long performance training program in Portland, Oregon. The cohort trains twenty hours a week in Suzuki, Viewpoints, clown, Alexander Technique, voice, and devising. ICP helps participating artists define their individual aesthetic and feeds collaborators capable of communicating radical thought in space, time, and body.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: JUNE 1, 2024
ICP’s one-year certificate program is a rigorous laboratory and incubator for new performance intended for artists who are both practical and visionary, experimental and pragmatic. Participants are engaged with faculty on a daily basis with questions relevant to contemporary performance. Each lab is predicated upon an experimental approach to learning.
The purpose of this training and research is threefold:
To cultivate new artists rooted in a strong foundation of training, history, and theory in a contemporary context.
To create an environment in which the participating artists can begin to define an individual aesthetic.
To feed collaborators capable of communicating radical thought in space, time and body.
All ICP faculty are professional, working artists and educators. ICP courses are taught by our core faculty: Jacob Coleman, Rebecca Lingafelter, Cristi Miles and Amber Whitehall. All instructors have extensive training with performance greats like Sonia Moore, Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, Mary Overlie, Wendell Beavers, Barbara Dilley and Tectonic Theatre. ICP faculty have taught at Portland Actor’s Conservatory, The Sonia Moore Studio of Theatre, Barnard College, Naropa University, Brandeis University, Boston Conservatory, Pacific University, Lewis & Clark College, Portland State University, The Public Theatre, and the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts.
Schedule
ICP cohorts have 20 hours of class time each week. Fall Term (Sept-Dec) will establish common vocabularies including Viewpoints, Suzuki, Clown, Alexander Technique, Devising, and more. In Spring Term (Jan-May), in addition to continued training, participants become a producing company under faculty mentorship. They develop, rehearse and fully produce a festival of new, site specific performance, with the goal of integrating the trainings into the creation of new work.
The culmination of the ICP program is the ICP Festival, a blossoming of new performance created and produced by each year’s cohort.
