Saturday, May 6, 2023
11 AM – 1 PM
At Stomping Ground LA // 5453 Alhambra Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90032
About Devising Platter
Artists Rachel Ho and Cristina Fernandez invite you to enter a generative state and fire up your creative spirit through play, connection, and lots of laughter. Over the course of 2 hours we will serve up a variety of devising exercises while exploring different forms of writing and idea generation, both collectively and individually. We will draw from comedic forms and utilize a physicalized state of play to create new, joyful pathways in our processes and to engage our audience.
Come hungry to move, use your voice, make creative offerings, renew your performance practice, and tap into our collective needs in a fun and energized environment!
Dress for movement. Bring water and a notebook + pen for yourself. Option to bring a prop or object of your choice to engage with throughout the workshop!
Location
Workshop Fee
This workshop fee is $25.
If you need pricing adjustment accommodations, please reach out directly to Patricia Garza, Director of Programs, Patricia@PerformancePractice.org.
By participating in this workshop, you consent to be photographed by LA Performance Practice staff for marketing and archival purposes.
About the Artists
Cristina Fernandez
Cristina Fernandez (NBC, HBO, SXSW) is an L.A. based performer, writer and educator whose work centers around presence, possibility and ritual. Her performances draw from varied disciplines including dance, meditation, and stand up comedy in order to create joyful, intricate works built collectively alongside audiences.
Cristina’s latest writing is featured in Our Red Book, a collection of essays, oral histories, and artworks about periods across all stages of life, published by Simon & Schuster. She has worked as a translator and script adaptor for plays, films and television.
Cristina has performed in numerous festivals and venues, including Hammer Museum, Bootleg Theater, The Elysian, Lyric Hyperion, Skirball Cultural Center, Human Resources, The Vortex, Pieter Performance Space, Miami Light Factory, Comedy Store, Laugh Factory, LTC/Howlround Comedy Carnaval, LAX Festival, Radar LA, and SXSW.
As a performance and movement instructor, Cristina has taught at California Institute Of The Arts, New York Film Academy, Grand Park, Nomad Lab, L.A. Philharmonic After School Programs and Ramon C. Cortines High School Of Visual & Performing Arts.
Cristina is fiercely committed to amplifying artist parents of color as L.A. rep for PAAL, (Parent Artist Advocacy League), a collective of individuals and organizations committed to family-friendly practices in the performing arts and media. Because parents have dreams, too.
She received her MFA in Acting from CalArts and is originally from Puerto Rico. Yes, it’s part of the United States.
Rachel Ho
Rachel Ho Ruizhen is a Singaporean-Chinese performance-maker and multimedia artist exploring embodiment, expression, and human connection across physical and virtual spaces. She often creates experiences and experimental systems for play and discovery, and her performances emphasize liveness and the direct relationship with the audience. Rachel’s work is concerned with inquiries into humanity and authenticity amidst our technological future, and uses interactivity, improvisation and humor to probe and reveal moments around individual impulses and collective identity.
Rachel currently works as a creative writer in information technology, and has worked for companies such as Google, The Designory, and Bus Uncle Company writing for conversational user interfaces and designing virtual assistants. Alongside her performance practice, she is a showrunner of a weekly experimental open stage event at The Elysian Theater, and a member of the comedic performance art group, The Nonsemble.
Rachel holds a BFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts, and her work has been featured at Slamdance Film Festival, Slamdance Digital, Interactive and Gaming showcase, Automata LA, Los Angeles Performance Practice’s Live Arts Exchange Festival, GLAS Animation Festival, San Diego Underground Film Festival, Singapore Art Museum, and others.
