Activities are structured as a series of interconnected components to progress over the course of the residency. Individual Presentations Oral and video presentations During the first week, all fellows introduce themselves to one another by describing and demonstrating their own work and explaining the dynamics of cultural and professional circumstances. In week 2 and 3, each fellow teaches an hour-long workshop to the group. The content of these sessions range from meditation practices, dance movement with modern as well as traditional origins, vocal exercises, music lessons and improvisation, and techniques in theater. Experimentation Group projects and improvisations Large blocks of time in the studios are devoted to creative experimentation and exploration.
Fellows discuss and vote for ideas to be developed into collaborative projects.
Informal writings All participants are to submit informal writings in the forms of letters or journals before, during, and after the residency. These writings record the expectations, reaction and assessment of the program on an on-going basis and are shared among fellows. Meetings and Discussions Writers convene in small group sessions several times a week to discuss general issues of theory, methodology and ideology, as well as approaches to observing and describing aspects of these creative processes, and to explore effective and perhaps novel ways of doing this. Writers will exchange with one another critiques of their manuscripts. A completed manuscript of the article is due six months after the end of the residency, which will be edited and become part of a final published volume.