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Artmedia - Physical Theatre News - October 2008
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Sponsor:
Dell'Arte Abroad Bali Intensive, Indonesia
Feature:
Angels Can Fly - Exercise: Normal Question
Special Feature:
International Training in Movement Theatre, Giovanni
Fusetti, NZ
Networking:
Diploma in Circus Arts Program at CircoArts, New Zealand
Auditions for Educational Theatre Tour with TIE, Australia
Call for Performers at Ruby's Place Performance Cafe, Australia
Voice Movement Workshop with Sophie Martin, Brisbane, Australia
Flying Trapeze Weekend Intensive in November, NSW, Australia
Trapeze Summer Camp seeks Staff for 2009, Pennsylvania, USA
Puppet Theatre Internships with Das Puppenspiel, Westfield, USA
Mimes/Actors wanted for new Mime Theatre Company, USA
Corporal Mime Weekend Workshop at Moveo, Barcelona, Spain
Marionette Making Workshops with Puppets in Prague, Czech Rep
Auditions for dancers/physical theatre practitioners with CTC Theatre, UK
Dance Artists sought to develop new project with DanceXChange, UK
International Women's Clown Festival, workshop and panel, Austria
Intensive Clown seminar with Dario Levin in December, Paris, France
One Day Immersion Clown Workshop with Peter Ercolano, Italy
Register for Contact Improvisation Festival workshops, Israel
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Welcome to the October 2008 edition of the Artmedia physical theatre newsletter, your e-publication with an Australasian focus and a global perspective, now in its seventh year and reaching over 2,300 subscribers.
In the Sponsorship this month we welcome Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre with news of their Bi-annual Bali Intensive. This is a unique opportunity to study traditional Balinese performing arts and crafts with village masters, as well as Dell'Arte mask and movement techniques.
For the first time in seven years of publication we have no Playspace section in this issue, because my summer Clown Retreat in January is full. We will be announcing new workshops soon however, so keep checking the website for updates: www.artmedia.com.au/Clown.htm We replace the Playspace section with an excerpt from Angels Can Fly, this month, because we've got a bit of a clown theme in the networking. We include one of the exercises: the Normal Question.
In the Special Features this month, Giovanni Fusetti is coming to New Zealand in the new year to give workshops in Mask and Clown. The Journey of Mask offers a completely new dramatic expression, while The Red Nose workshop is a journey into the mystery of laughter.
In Networking, applications to CircoArts' two year Diploma programme close in November. This is the only fulltime course in circus and physical theatre in New Zealand. TIE in Australia are holding auditions for actor/singers to tour schools, but be quick if you're interested as applications close October 24th. In Bondi Beach, Ruby's Place Performance Cafe has a call out for performers and a Voice Movement Therapy workshop is being offered in Brisbane the weekend of November 8th - 9th with Sophie Martin.
The Czech company, Puppets in Prague, are accepting applications for their Marionette Making Workshops being held in January 2009. In the UK, auditions are being held in Darlington for dancers and physical theatre practitioners for a new production of Beneath the Banyan Tree to tour schools. And DanceXChange requires two dance artists to develop a project for delivery to schools in the West Midlands beginning December.
The 3-week Israeli Contact Improvisation Festival begins December 16th. The festival has become a true community event, owned and operated by the Israeli Contact Improv community.
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Sponsor: Dell'Arte Abroad Bi-annual Bali Intensive
Explore the
traditional arts of Bali with Dell’Arte Abroad program
February 9 –March 12, 2009
An intensive which offers a chance to study Balinese
dance, mask making and shadow puppetry
Since 1996, Dell’Arte International has invited students, teachers, designers, directors, and artists to immerse themselves in the traditional arts of Bali and encounter the profound spirit of the Balinese people. In this unique and wonderfully successful program participants study traditional Balinese performing arts and crafts with village masters, as well as Dell'Arte mask and movement techniques led by Dell'Arte's Founding Artistic Director Joan Schirle.
Bali is an extraordinary country where creativity is ordinary. In Bali, art serves the community, the religious practices, the economy and everyday living. The trip introduces students to Balinese performing arts in a way that allows them to experience how the Balinese live and create, and how family life and religious customs are woven into the creation of art.
The program begins with three days of orientation to the language, customs, and ceremonies of Bali, as well as informal meetings with Balinese teachers to observe their work. Introductory work will include a symposium on masks with local carver I. B. Anom, visits to the studios of several mask carvers and puppet makers, and attendance at a shadow play (wayang kulit) and dance performances.
During the next four weeks of formal study, classes meet five days a
week. All students will study kecak , a rhythmic vocal chant, as well
as participate in regular Yoga/Alexander Technique sessions, block
printing, and symposiums on the links between Balinese and western mask
performance traditions.
Sometimes our study will take place in a classroom setting, sometimes outdoors, and often in its traditional setting at village and temple ceremonies. The core of the program is designed so that each student spends a large percentage of their class time on one area of interest most important to them. Students will choose between:
Mask Carving
Balinese Dance (masked topeng and legong)
Shadow puppetry (wayang kulit)
For more information, visit www.dellarte.com/bali or call 707-668-5663 or contact the Program Director at joan@dellarte.com
The DELL’ARTE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL THEATRE is the North
American center for the exploration, development, training and performance
of the actor-creator. Dell’Arte is the only institution in the U.S. offering
a full-time professional actor training program in physical theatre, through
a one-year certificate program, and an accredited three-year MFA in
Ensemble-Based Physical Theatre.
Find out more about Dell’Arte International at www.dellarte.com
Feature: Angels Can Fly, a Modern Clown User Guide
Angels can Fly includes a mix of fiction which follows the adventures of ten clown characters, some personal clown anecdotes from clowns around the world, a total of 50 practical clown exercises, and some theory on the nature of modern clown. The book is available on order through bookshops and online stores.
Exercise: Normal
Question
This is a street exercise, and is best set at an outdoor cafe exposed to a
good flow of pedestrians. Participants sit at a table with a good view of
the street. It is good to start this exercise with a period of observation
of the people walking past, observing their body postures and emotional
states. To help us around our fears, we need to place our interactions as
much as possible within the comfort zone of participants. So, working
individually, participants hop up, one, two, or three at a time, engage with
people walking past, and ask them a perfectly normal question, such as 'what
is the time?' This places the interaction firmly in known territory. The
rest of the group observe the reactions, and can discuss these as the
exercise progresses.
The exercise should be explored with a range of people, one after the other,
and if the contact feels a little strained after the normal question (which
is often indicated by people walking away), participants just say thank you,
and move on to the next person.
Abnormal Question
If the contact feels good however, after the normal question, participants
can develop this exercise by asking an abnormal question, to take the
interaction into a more playful release. It is good to ask something
personal, or bizarre, at this point, and this is now okay for many people,
if there is a rapport between the participants, and an agreement to
interact.
Coaching Tips
As clowns, we often have fears about interactions with people, and
even more often, the audience has fears about their interactions with us. So
this exercise provides a 'safe' mechanism to introduce both participants and
the public to these interactions, because it places the interaction within
the comfort zone of the audience.
One of the big challenges of this exercise is the initial engagement with
people, for we do not, as a rule, engage with strangers on the street. Body
posture is a good start here, because we unconsciously mirror those we
relate to, so by assuming a similar posture to someone, we are saying, 'I am
like you, we can relate'. Even then, many people will not stop to be asked a
question, and for many it is okay then to walk with them, again easing the
contact by being like them. We should also mention that some people on the
street are aggressive, and these people should not be played with. See the
exercise on non-violence in Chapter 34.
As performers, we can also sometimes get trapped in some interactions, and
so as clowns we must be aware of who is in control of the game. If we are in
crazy territory, and the other person is in control of the interaction, it
is very likely that they are crazy, and so we should say 'thank you', and
just move on. At any stage, in any interaction, participants can always say,
'thank you' and move on.
"Clown is a fascinating, diverse, complex and exciting art form, which has existed around the planet for thousands of years. Like any art form it has to evolve to stay relevant to the culture nurturing it, and at the same time, and by its very nature, clown teases and turns upside down the cultural patterns and boundaries around us."
Here's a link to Angels Can Fly on Amazon, http://tinyurl.com/9nrwj and you can check out more information at: www.alanclay.com
Special Feature: International Training in Movement Theatre with Giovanni Fusetti - New Zealand - Summer 2009
Wellington, January 17th to February 1st
&
Auckland, February 8th to March 1st
Masks are very ancient and powerful forms of human expression. In the training of the physical actor-creator Mask playing is fundamental, because it combines strong emotional awareness and a powerful body alertness, with a rigorous technique of articulation of the body into dramatic forms. By covering the facial expressions of the actor, the Mask allows a return to the roots of one’s own presence in space. Gestures have to be amplified, and everything is brought back to the body, thus giving the actor a complete new sense of space, presence and dramatic expression. The training will explore Neutral Mask, Larval Masks, Primary Masks, Half Masks and will culminate with Commedia Dell’arte.
Welcome to a journey into the mystery of laughter: from discovering one’s own clown to creating theatre with her/him, till a final public performance of a Clown Variety Show. To discover one’s own clown is to respond the question: What is so funny about myself? It’s the unfolding of one’s own unique comic persona that is transformed into a universal comic form. It’s a unique experience for any performer: raw, pure, direct, personal, challenging, empowering, revealing, and extremely rewarding... It’s the exquisite pleasure of touching the empty space of complete physical comedy, to explore and play with the naiveté and the vulnerability of the child, combined with the rigor and the technique of the adult, thus revealing the poetry of the ridiculous, and a unique personal poetic power.
Enrolment and information contact Greg Goodyer: ggoodyer@hotmail.com Mobile: (+64) 0212674986
Giovanni Fusetti was a student, pedagogical assistant and improvisation teacher at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France. He co-founded and served as pedagogical director of KIKLOS International School of Theatre Creation in Padua, Italy, and is now developing the school’s new form: HELIKOS. Giovanni has taught and collaborated internationally with theatre companies, schools and universities including Naropa University (Boulder, CO), LISPA: London International School of Performing Arts (London), Dell’Arte School of Physical Theatre (Blue Lake, CA). Giovanni’s 20 years of pedagogical research includes training in Theatre in Education, Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, Gestalt Therapy, Bioenergetics, Wutao and Process Work. His pedagogy integrates physical theatre with different practices of physical and emotional awareness.
Networking
"Diploma
in Circus Arts with CircoArts, CPIT, Christchurch,
New Zealand. Applications close November. This two year full
time course in Circus Arts commences in February. This unique
programme is designed to build on your skill and performance base
and to offer you intensive training in the circus skill area of your
strength. Subjects you will cover include circus skills (aerials,
acrobatics, juggling and manipulation, equilibristics), body
training (dance, yoga, Feldenkrais conditioning and exercise
science), performance (physical theatre, clown and comedy, devising
and performing), history and comparative studies, business and risk
management. For more information please visit our web site and
contact us for an application form." Chris Carrow, Circo Arts.
(Photo: CircoArts students) Find a link to CircoArts under Training
at:
http://www.artmedia.com.au/links7.htm
"Intensive
Weekend Workshop with the International School of Corporal
Mime, Barcelona, Spain, November 22nd & 23rd. This year the
training arm of Moveo is offering 8 weekend
workshops. Taught by Olivier Decriaud, these short and intensive
workshops (12 hours) are designed for actors and professional
dancers, students of dramatic art or dance who want to approach the
physical theater through the study of the Corporal Dramatic Mime of
Etienne Decroux. Each workshop focuses on a topic that constitutes a
starting point for the understanding of the universe of the corporal
dramatic mime and a key point in the training of the
physical theatre actor. The workshops
admit a maximum of 15 students to ensure that all students are
personally attended by the teacher. If you wish to enrol in one or
more of the Moveo workshops, find full contact details on our web
site." Stephane Levy, co-Artistic Director, Escuela Internacional de
Mimo Corporal Dramático de Barcelona. (Photo: School of Corporal
Mime) Find a link to Escuela de Mimo under Training at:
http://www.artmedia.com.au/links7.htm"Marionette Making Workshops with Miroslav Trejtnar of Puppets in Prague, Czech Republic, 6th - 20th January 2009. Working under Czech puppet masters, students learn the techniques of designing puppets, making technical drawings, woodcarving, painting, and puppet costume design. The daily schedule is intensive: students work eight hours, with morning sessions consisting of short lectures and afternoons for practical work. In the evenings, students visit puppeteers' studios, attend puppet theatre performances, and see the best animated Czech puppet films. The course is designed for artists, theatre makers, and puppeteers who want to learn the craft of creating a wooden marionette. Students will be selected on the basis of their experience, and all applicants should send photos of their work with the application. The workshop is taught in English. Visit the web site for information on fees and accommodation." Miroslav Trejtnar, Puppets in Prague. Find a link to Puppets in Prague under Training at: http://www.artmedia.com.au/links7.htm
"Dance Artists wanted for new dance development project for delivery to schools in the West Midlands, UK, December 2008 – March 2009. This will include 15 hours of school-time delivery of one 90-minute workshop, one day of planning, and one day of attendance at training (schedule negotiable) and for one artist, the development of a resource pack for teachers which will support the continuation of the work once the session has been delivered. The fee is £765 or £975 (based on £37/hour and £210/day) with limited funds to cover travel costs. DanceXchange (dx), the Dance House for Birmingham and the West Midlands, is a multi-faceted organisation with its own venue, touring dance company, public class programme, and a particular expertise in developing responsive and imaginative participatory work with young people. dx is pleased to be working in partnership with Chase PAIRs, an Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Forum hosted by Chase CVS, to deliver a new dance development project on healthy relationships in Cannock Chase (funded by Staffordshire County Council’s Arts and Museum Service’s Arts Development Fund). This project will give Year 5 students at 10 Chase District primary schools the opportunity to engage with the ideas underpinning healthy relationships through dance. The appointed dance artists will benefit from gaining insight into an expanding and important area of arts development, thoughtful administrative support, the excellent facilities at dx (studio space is available for planning), the opportunity to invigorate practice through collaboration and make new or strengthen established links. Full project information and details on how to apply available upon request. Visit web site for contact details." Kate DeRight, DanceXchange. Find a link to DanceXChange under Dance at: http://www.artmedia.com.au/links4.htm
"Full Day Immersion Clown Workshop with Peter Ercolano, Rome, Italy, October 25th. This one day workshop is the Introduction to the 1st level – Clown Heart. Visit the web site for more information." Peter Ercolano. Find a link to Peter Ercolano Workshops under Training at: http://www.artmedia.com.au/links7.htm or phone: +39 3408303237
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