SCREENING: ENGAGEMENTS
Screening of creative work by Mary Beth Brooker, Jennifer Green, and Jennifer Nugent
from an online project with Peter Schmitz.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
7:00-8:15PM EDT
Tickets: $5-$20
Day Pass (Friday): $30-$100
Festival Pass: $80-$250
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE
Introduced by Peter Schmitz and followed by discussion with the artists.
-- Three videos of creative investigation made with partners over a two month period March-May. Material emerged in engagement with a series of questions and proposals by Peter in dialogue with the artists’ project partners. Interpretation of these challenges was an essential element of this project; there wasn’t a right or wrong response. One fundamental element was having the participants acknowledge their choices and the emergent forms. Further articulation of the project will be included in the introduction and discussion with the artists.
PETER B. SCHMITZ has been involved in the creative and performing arts for over four decades as an actor, dancer, choreographer, and educator. With an MFA from Smith College, Peter has served on the Theatre and Dance faculties of Middlebury and Amherst Colleges and has held residencies at many universities. As a professional dancer/choreographer, Peter has worked throughout the United States and in Holland, Germany, France, England, New Zealand and Turkey. He was a founding member of Dance Gallery, a small modern dance company, a member of Creach/Co in New York City for over eight years, and has performed in the works of Wendy Woodson and Present Co., Yanira Castro/acanarytorsi (Bessie nominee for performance 2013), Tamar Rogoff, Richard Colton/Amy Spencer, Jim Coleman and Terese Freedman/Freedman Coleman Dance, and, most recently, he is touring with Ann Carlson in doggie hamlet. He received a “Best Performance” award in the San Francisco Film/Video Festival for his work in a film by Wendy Woodson, “Trout”. He has choreographed for New World Theatre, Medicine Show Theatre and Potomac Theater Project and is a member of Actors Equity. Peter is on the Board of Directors of A.P.E. (Available Potential Enterprises) in Northampton, MA, and he teaches and performs internationally. He lives at Bramble Hill Farm in Amherst, MA with his husband Joey Schmitz.
Screening of creative work by Mary Beth Brooker, Jennifer Green, and Jennifer Nugent
from an online project with Peter Schmitz.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
7:00-8:15PM EDT
Tickets: $5-$20
Day Pass (Friday): $30-$100
Festival Pass: $80-$250
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE
Introduced by Peter Schmitz and followed by discussion with the artists.
-- Three videos of creative investigation made with partners over a two month period March-May. Material emerged in engagement with a series of questions and proposals by Peter in dialogue with the artists’ project partners. Interpretation of these challenges was an essential element of this project; there wasn’t a right or wrong response. One fundamental element was having the participants acknowledge their choices and the emergent forms. Further articulation of the project will be included in the introduction and discussion with the artists.
PETER B. SCHMITZ has been involved in the creative and performing arts for over four decades as an actor, dancer, choreographer, and educator. With an MFA from Smith College, Peter has served on the Theatre and Dance faculties of Middlebury and Amherst Colleges and has held residencies at many universities. As a professional dancer/choreographer, Peter has worked throughout the United States and in Holland, Germany, France, England, New Zealand and Turkey. He was a founding member of Dance Gallery, a small modern dance company, a member of Creach/Co in New York City for over eight years, and has performed in the works of Wendy Woodson and Present Co., Yanira Castro/acanarytorsi (Bessie nominee for performance 2013), Tamar Rogoff, Richard Colton/Amy Spencer, Jim Coleman and Terese Freedman/Freedman Coleman Dance, and, most recently, he is touring with Ann Carlson in doggie hamlet. He received a “Best Performance” award in the San Francisco Film/Video Festival for his work in a film by Wendy Woodson, “Trout”. He has choreographed for New World Theatre, Medicine Show Theatre and Potomac Theater Project and is a member of Actors Equity. Peter is on the Board of Directors of A.P.E. (Available Potential Enterprises) in Northampton, MA, and he teaches and performs internationally. He lives at Bramble Hill Farm in Amherst, MA with his husband Joey Schmitz.
