PERFORMING/CREATIVE
ARTISTS BOOTCAMP

Creative Performance Development for
 Actors    Dancers    Singers    Musicians    Poets    Playwrights
Choreographers    Film & Theatre Directors    Screenwriters    Visual Artists    Songwriters  
Composers and Teachers of the Arts

Cultivate Creative Potential  •  Break Down Inhibiting Inner Conflicts
Reach Your Maximum Performance and Creative Levels

The BootCamp is a two hour workshop format incorporating comprehensive techniques from around the world specifically designed to help performing/creative artist's improve Onstage and "On The Page" performance.

The Class is NOT about teaching craft and is not ment to be, or replace, acting, singing, creative writing, dance, music or visual art training.  The primary goal is to decrease the false-self ( the self-conscious, defensive ego ) and the conscious and subconscious inhibiting interference that it creates and also to cultivate the True-Self ( the functional ego ) that fosters the release of our true, authentic potential and cultivates our long term artistic growth.

While we will be using:
- Vocal work ( actting, singing, writing and pre-verbal exercises)
- Dramatic and Psychological exercises and improvisation
- Movement exercises and techniques
- Rhythm techniques and percussion exercises
- Creative and experimental composition exercises

They will all be designed and utilized to promote the primary goal of
lessening the effects of the negative-self and nurturing the real-self identity.

The Performing/Creative Artist BootCamp Will Meet in the Lynx Theatre
Space at SDDanceworks on Sundays from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Class Schedule | Directions

    Jazz pioneer Miles Davis called it "The Space", elite athletes call it the "The Zone", Mozart called it "Being with God", during the Renaissance Italians called it having "Grazia" ( Grace ) and Psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, who has been recognized for his work in this area, named it "Being in Flow".

Every spiritual and life philosophy's method for personal development
has it's own variation of naming, investigating and separating
the self-clinging ego from the deeper creative self.

For our work we will call it "True-Self".  Being completely in True-Self
 (with no interference from the False-Self) is a mental state that incorporates:

• Full immersion in the moment with an energized, clear, razor sharp focus
• Complete attachment with our authentic subconscious.
• Action merges with awareness, is intensely rewarding and effortlessness and all self-consciousness dissolves.
• In the action the artist is functioning at their Full Creative & Performance Potential.

The Workshop is designed for and welcomes all levels, amateur thru professional, however beginners need to note this is a bootcamp structure and all need to be ready to work at a high level. Also, because the primary goal is not improvement of craft but rather development of our potential for creative and performance artistry, much of the work is personal and can be emotionally provocative.

BootCamp Goals include:

• find our own unique ways to access and develop that "place" where we      release our true abilties whether they be in performing, compositional or visual arts.
• develop potential for immediacy, conviction and authenticity.
• increase body awareness and comfortability with our physical well being
• improve ability to spontaneously follow dramatic, emotional, and physical action to enhance and maximize “in the moment” authenticity.
• balance, breath and rhythm work to develop a deeper sense of ourselves and awareness of our presence and influence on the world around us. 

Workshop Teacher:    Al Germani  LCSW

• Masters Degree in Psychiatric Social Work - SDSU/UCSD
• Graduate Studies in Performing Arts - SDSU, Slippery Rock State, Point Park University, University of Pittsburgh.
• Bachelors Degree Psychology & Fine Arts - Rutgers College

Al Germani has been a theatre director, teacher, choreographer, musician and a psychotherapist for the past 25 years. The combination of experience and graduate education in psychiatry and the performing arts, as well as extensive background in progressive theatre, performance art, modern & progressive dance, jazz, worldbeat percussion and Buddhist Studies lends a unique insight and understanding to his artistic vision and teaching style and methods.

Al is the Artistic Director of the award winning, critically acclaimed Lynx Theatre, has taught Dance and Theatre in private studios and at SDSU and Grossmont college, Designed and taught the Movement Training For Athletes Class at SDSU And continues to specialize in providing psychotherapy for Artists -  ( www.psychotherapyfortheartist.com)