SUMMER WORKSHOPS 2010
in Blue Lake...& Amsterdam
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in Blue Lake...
JUNE 18 - JULY 1
LUME Teatro
JUNE 21 - JULY 1
At The Crossroads: Dance/Theatre
JUNE 28 - JULY 2
Games
JULY 5 - July 30
DAI Intensive: "As Real As The Clowns"
AUGUST 3 - 14
Craft and Mystery - A two-week journey into Mask Making
and Mask Performance for the Theatre.
in Amsterdam...
JUNE 22 - 27 Fundamentals of Clowning
Jesser de Souza of LUME Teatro--one of Brazil's most amazing theater ensembles--will offer Lume's intense physical work...
LUME Teatro —A Workshop with Jesser de Souza
JUNE 18 – JULY 1 / $975 / 6 hours daily, 13 days / all levels
Based on more than 20 years of research, Brazil’s LUME Center for Interdisciplinary Theater Research transmits its methods of vocal and physical preparation for the performer through intensely physical workshops.
This practical workshop is open to actors, dancers, directors and artists who wish to use their body as a means of expression. It teaches the various technical elements that makeup the daily training of LUME performers, giving concrete instruments for the actor’s craft.
Navigate through the basic principles of the actor’s work: the transformation of weight into energy, the precision and dynamics of physical actions in time and space, the relationship with the ground, the relationship with the air, the work of the joints and body segmentation, animal energy and the relationship between actors.
The seven members of LUME are extraordinary actors, teachers, and devisers, and the company tours extensively around the world, having visited to date more than 20 different countries. They rarely visit the US, so this is a rare chance to study their methodology in North America. LUME’s U.S. debut was presented by DAI’s Mad River Festival in 2000. www.lumeteatro.com.br
Jesser de Souza is an actor, researcher, musician, acrobat, and teacher who has been part of the LUME ensemble since 1993. He has participated in national and international festivals and performances, presented and taught workshops and technical demonstrations on the work of LUME
around the world, including at the TCG National Conference in Milwaukee.
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AT THE CROSSROADS— Where Dance Meets Theater
With Donlin Foreman
JUNE 21 – JULY 1 / $675 / for dancers and actors /
“When a student leaves my class I don’t care that they remember a movement series, I care that they remember the images that grew up around that series. I am not interested in teaching them a “contraction” but in reminding them –allowing them to recognize – to re-discover the physical sensation of wrapping themselves around something, holding on to it and releasing it. They fold themselves in and in and in, like the kneading of bread into itself over and over again. And when they open out to the world, they touch forever by knowing it has always lived within them. The whole body becomes you– from beyond the tip of the finger to below where our feet press into the clay of the earth.
Our movement reveals the inner surfaces of the body – the inside of the hand, arm, leg, an open neck and chest – so that we may perceive our vulnerabilities. The practice of these movements is dangerous to the personality that wants/needs to remain guarded. It takes great bravery to be direct and clear. A student’s courage to fully explore this aspect of movement becomes their greatest strength. Imagery can help with this – that is why writings and visuals are also brought in – but the body experiencing its own full potential is the greatest tool we have for reaching this goal."
–Donlin Foreman
Donlin Foreman is a 20-year veteran principal dancer of the Martha Graham Dance Company. As Co-Founder/Artistic Director of Buglisi Foreman Dance for twelve years, he choreographed over 30 ballets and has choreographed for many companies as diverse as the Ice Theater of New York and the La Scala Ballet in Milan. He serves as Professor of Professional Practice at Barnard College, Columbia University, has published a book of poetic writing entitled Out of Martha’s House, and for two years chaired the Dance Panel of NYSCA. He has been a guest artist at DAI for three years. http://www.danceocg.org/
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a 6-day Clown Workshop with Matt Chapman & Suzanne Bakker
June 22 - 27
$450 ( 320 Euros) / all levels / 4 hours daily
Join us for a one-week intensive exploration of the world and play of the clown, in one of Europe's most incredible cities! Authenticity and availability, partnering and comic rhythm, improvisation and honesty will be the realms of investigation. We will examine the red nose as mask, and we will study the ridiculous in all of us. Be prepared to play ferociously!
Matt Chapman is co-founder/co-artistic director of Under The Table Ensemble in Brooklyn, NY and is currently a TCG New Generations Fellow at DAI. Suzanne Bakker is a Dutch actor and clown who works with Golden Palace theatre in Amsterdam; she has an MFA in Ensemble Based Physical Theatre from Dell'Arte. Matt & Suzanne have co-taught Clown workshops in Holland and in London.
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A workshop especially useful to classroom teachers, special educators, tutors, parents, and others who wish to provide alternative ways of learning...
GAMES—A workshop for teachers & parents
with James Peck
JUNE 28 – JULY 2 / $475 / 6 days, 5 hours daily
In every playground in every school, games are being played, but what about the games that are played out in the classroom and in our everyday communications? This workshop focuses on the way games are played—in playgrounds, classrooms, in life—and on the different types of player and the creative power of games to liberate and educate.
The workshop offers insights into how educators and parents can create interesting ways of using games to effect strategies for co-operation and problem solving. Filled with many different kinds of play from “Red light, green light” to status based games, James Peck will guide you through a panoply of play to find ‘the game’ in every situation. Participants will both play games and create games of their own.
Objectives:
* To develop ways of incorporating games into a educational format
* To examine the role of the rulebook and it’s relationship to free play
* To find the games hidden in the way people play
* To uncover the way we find our own sense of playfulness
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THE DAI INTENSIVE : "As Real As The Clowns"
JULY 5 - 30 / $1725 / All levels / 6 hours daily
$100 discount to AEA members; $100 discount for full payment by April 10
Led by Ronlin Foreman, Director of Training at Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre
with guest artists Donlin Foreman, Olivia Ferraris and Milo Scotton, and resident faculty Joan Schirle, Stephanie Thompson, Joe Krienke and James Peck.
Week 1
Comic duos and trios – drawing from eccentric characters and the outlandish performance styles of English music hall and American vaudeville and burlesque, the participant creates “the act of a lifetime”. Emphasis on: building an eccentric performance personage (including voice); partnering and status, engagement of personal skills, i.e. from virtuoso violin to on-cue flatulence, time and timing, the bit and the payoff.
Week 2
Red Nose … the realm of the clown -- resilience and buoyancy, the play of the nose, entrances and exits, organic bases of “the gag”, skillful development of circumstances and the theme, repetition and the rule of three.
Weeks 3 & 4
Character Clown … clown in deep space. The final two weeks will build on principles developed during the Weeks 1 & 2. In this realm we accept the clown as absurd-- its territory: the surreal; its perspective: personal. And as always, at the foreground of the discovery, is the laughter of the audience. "...that, at the end of the performance, the audience would run into the streets, screaming in desperation, "I want to be as real as the Clowns!"
This workshop also addresses ease and clarity along with vocal support through classes with Joan Schirle. There will also be classes in image based movement with Donlin Foreman and circus skills with Milo & Olivia, an Italian circus/theatre duo whose show, "Klinke," has been seen at Avignon and Challon...
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Craft and Mystery - A two-week journey into Mask Making
and Mask Performance for the Theatre.
with Dell’Arte Instructor Bruce Marrs
August 3 - 14
9:30 am-12:30 pm, 2-5 pm | two weeks: $825 | All levels
This very popular workshop teaches papier mache maskmaking techniques as well as how the mask and the performer meet. Study the craft of character sculpture and the making of professional quality theatre performance masks. Technique, modeling, & painting. Learn what makes totally engaging and magical mask performance. The same acting notions particular to successful masked performance translate back to acting in any style; the vocabulary of the craft finds a life in the body. Studios are open 24/7 for individual or group research. Fee includes materials. Check out Marrs’ masks at www.marzillamask.com
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Dell’Arte International is the U.S. center for the research, training, and performance of the actor-creator, exploring the physical theatre traditions and their contemporary applications. With the professional Dell’Arte Company, a summer festival, and an international actor-training program offering both MFA and certificate programs, Dell’Arte has for 30 years pioneered in the areas of physical theatre, theatre of place and devised theatre.
Is Dell'Arte International offering workshops in Denmark this summer?
This summer we take a break from our annual workshops in Denmark, but our partner, Aasen Teater, will present their own workshop this summer.... Visit
http://www.aasen.dk/summer2010.html
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