LINES OF FLIGHT
August 2 - 5, 2010 (Monday - Thursday)
[Workshop Flyer]
Lines of Flight is a four-day intensive workshop that explores different physical approaches to theatre and performance. Teaching artists from five different innovative New York theatre companies and institutions will run three- to six-hour training sessions. The training introduces participants to contemporary performance techniques that foreground the body. The artists involved draw from the traditions of such masters as Vsevolod Meyerhold, Jerzy Grotowski, and Tadashi Suzuki, but each has taken their knowledge and flown in fresh and challenging new directions. Lines of Flight is an opportunity to explore, through direct experience, how a new generation of artists is shaping the landscape of performance in the United States and internationally.
In addition to the workshops, participants will attend evening salons, where the teaching artists will show examples of their work and share their ideas with each other. These salons will be open to the public and are intended to generate exciting discussion and seeds for future experimentation and research into physical approaches to theatre.
Fee: $300 (or $250 before July 20)
Location: Medicine Show Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street, NYC
Spaces are extremely limited.
See below for complete schedule and information.
For more information or to register, contact: Meg Araneo
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WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
(participants must plan to attend all events)MONDAY, AUGUST 2 1:30pm Check-in, orientation, welcome 3:00-6:00pm Workshop #1:
Daniel Irizarry, Columbia UniversityTUESDAY, AUGUST 3 10:30am-1:30pm Workshop #2:
Brooke O'Harra, Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf3:00-6:00pm Workshop #3:
Gian Murray Gianino, SITI Company7:30pm First Salon:
Brooke O'Harra and Gian Murray GianinoWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4 10:30am-1:30pm Workshop #4:
Kameron Steele, The South Wing3:00-6:00pm Workshop #4 continued 7:30pm Second Salon:
Daniel Irizarry and Kameron SteeleTHURSDAY, AUGUST 5 10:30am-1:30pm Workshop #5:
Maximilian Balduzzi and Ben Spatz,
Urban Research Theater3:00-6:00pm Workshop #5 continued 8:00pm Performance: PLAY/WAR
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Daniel Irizarry | COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Actor, director and instructor. Irizarry is a Mabou Mines RAP 2011 Artist in Residency. As part of the program, he will direct and perform in an original play entitled Cho H Cho. This fall, he will join the faculty at Columbia University's MFA Acting program. He is also currently part of the theater faculty at the Eugene Lang College of the New School for Liberal Arts in New York City. His work has been praised in the United States and internationally, including Russia, China, Japan, Spain, Eastern Europe, and the Caribbean.
Daniel holds an MFA in Acting from Columbia University (the first Puerto Rican student to be accepted into the program) and a BA in Drama from the University of Puerto Rico (Presidential Scholarship). Irizarry was also a Resident Artist with Mabou Mines in 2008 (Woyzeck). In Puerto Rico, he received the Best New Actor award by the Theater Critics' Circle in 1999 for his role in ¿¡Puertorriqueño!?. His next project will be The Orphans in December 2010 at La MaMa Theater. Where he'll be performing and directing with Karina Casiano.
Workshop Description
This workshop focuses on the actor's body and how to push it to its limits in order to awaken new dimensions and new possibilities. We aim to develop a stronger physical awareness and body language on stage. To achieve this aim, we use elements of Meyerhold, commedia dell'arte, Delsartre, Lecoq, acrobatics, iconography, and improvisation exercises. -
Brooke O'Harra | THEATRE OF A TWO-HEADED CALF
Brooke O'Harra is a co-founder of The Theatre of a Two-headed Calf. In addition to directing all Two-headed Calf productions, Brooke works as a free-lance director with an interest in new and experimental texts. She directs, writes, and performs for ROOM FOR CREAM, a live lesbian soap opera created by the Dyke Division of Two-headed Calf, currently in its third season. She is the recipient of the NEA/TCG Developing Directors grant, a NYSCA grant, a Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art award, an Art Matters grant, and an LMCC space grant, and four Chashama Live Performance space grants. She is a resident artist at La Mama E.T.C., a former Here Artist in Residence and a Drama League Directing fellow. Brooke has studied and made theatre in Japan, Czech Republic, Poland, Indonesia, and Ghana. She is full-time theater faculty at Mt. Holyoke College.
Workshop Description
This workshop will focus on how to use some Eastern performance methodologies to work on traditional western plays (ie Ibsen and Strindberg). We'll address how the eastern process of physically inhabiting a play before psychologically filling a role can be used to elucidate a new reading or understanding of much explored western classic. -
Gian Murray Gianino | SITI COMPANY
Gian Murray Gianino is the third generation of a NYC acting family and is the newest company member of Anne Bogart's SITI company. With the company he has perfomed in bobrauschenbergamerica, Radio Macbeth, Systems/Layers, Freshwater and Who Do You Think You Are. New York credits include BAM, The Women's Project, Signature Theatre, Second Stage, The Public, SoHo Rep, Ohio Theatre and regionally at Berkshire Theatre Festival, Yale Rep, Arena Stage, Actors Theatre Louisville, Provincetown Rep, The Court, Stamford Performing Arts, Athenaeum, Krannert, Walker, Wexner, Bobigny, Bonn Biennale and Dublin Theatre Festival. Film/T.V.: Painting Abby Long, Dead Canaries, Tale of Two Corners, Hospitality, Up to the Roof, L&O, L&O: SVU, All My Children. G.M. is a graduate of Wesleyan University.
SITI Company is an ensemble-based theater company whose three ongoing components are the creation of new work, the training of young theater artists, and a commitment to international collaboration. SITI was founded in 1992 by Anne Bogart and Tadashi Suzuki to redefine and revitalize contemporary theater in the United States through an emphasis on international cultural exchange and collaboration. Originally envisioned as a summer institute in Saratoga Springs, New York, SITI has expanded to encompass a year-round program based in New York City with a summer season in Saratoga. SITI believes that contemporary American theater must necessarily incorporate artists from around the world and learn from the resulting cross-cultural exchange of dance, music, art, and performance experiences.
Workshop Description
This workshop will explore the basic exercises and philosophy of Viewpoints, a performance technique developed by Anne Bogart and Tina Landau based on the work of Mary Overlie. Exploring and integrating such elements as tempo, rhythm, spatial architecture, vocal pitch, and tone, the workshop will introduce participants to the training system used by members of Bogart's SITI Company, one of the leading experimental theatre ensembles in the United States. -
Kameron Steele | THE SOUTH WING
Kameron has worked as an actor, director, and designer, most notably with Robert Wilson and Tadashi Suzuki at the Lincoln Center Festival, BAM Next Wave, and various other festivals in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. At the Watermill Center in 2003, he started The South Wing Theatre Company with Ivana Catanese, and has since presented works in NYC at HERE, PS122, The Public, LMCC, Japan Society, and the PRELUDE Festival.
The South Wing (TSW) endeavors to create theater which embraces the challenges that language, culture, genre and tradition present to twenty-first century global society, connecting Japan, Argentina, and the United States, in particular. TSW's viscerally engaging performances are generated via the shared vocal and movement "grammar" that the company continues to develop through their vigorous training laboratory. As the TSW style continues to take shape, the company's goal remains to be the creation of stories that appeal to poetical, political, intellectual and bawdy tastes alike, ultimately offering an opportunity for the audience to imagine the human experience in a new perspective.
Workshop Description
After returning from a year of touring with Tadashi Suzuki and the SCOT company, Kameron Steele is focusing on teaching the updated Suzuki basic training, No.1 ~ No.6. Steele will briefly demonstrate how the current training differs from the training based on the 1991 master class, and take the group through several of the core exercises, with particular attention to breath control, balance, and energy production. Steele will also incorporate The South Wing's complementary exercises to the training, preparing and then releasing the body from the intensity of the Suzuki work. -
Maximilian Balduzzi & Ben Spatz | URBAN RESEARCH THEATER
Ben Spatz and Maximilian Balduzzi are Artistic Director and Associate Director of Urban Research Theater. We develop original theatrical performances out of a continous, long-term practice of performance research. For more information, see the rest of this website.
Workshop Description
Maximilian and Ben will introduce elements of physical and vocal work from the current project PLAY/WAR and from previous theatrical works and song cycles. The focus will be on the relationship between precisely scored actions and the living contact between performers using impulse, balance, precision, and play. Participants will work with basic physical exercises developed specifically for actor training and with original and traditional songs designed to open the voice.
