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Session 5: Fornes’s Lessons in Tenderness vs the Atomic Bomb and Parks Digs a Hole in the Whole.
We started session 5 off with some serious vocal work. The lines I chose from our later readings proved to be extremely difficult to master, which made them perfect for our diction work and vocal explorations. We worked on the…
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Session 4: Slow Motion Race or Don’t Let the Puma Get You
So at the very end of session 4, Jim lead the classic favorite: slow motion race. You run as slow as you possibly can, while still giving the illusion of running. Since there were so many, we had to send…
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Session 4: Kennedy’s Impossible Identities and Once Upon a Time with Kondoleon
In session 4 we finally got around to my all time favorite movement exercise: move on exhale. For more info on this exercise see my previous entry. It was clear this group benefited from the starting and stopping work last…
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Session 3: The World in Handke’s Words and Pinter’s Uncovering of the Nakedness We Try to Hide With Words.
We began session 3 with some simple starting and stopping. It seems like such an obvious thing, we can’t live our lives with out starting and stopping hundreds of times a day, we do it so often it becomes automatic,…
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Session 2: Brecht and the provability of any and every contention and forcing humanity through a sieve with Grotowski.
Session two started well, we had lost a few people but gained some new folks who couldn’t attend day one. We tried red ball again with much the same chaotic results, until one of the participants asked if we could…
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Session One: Cocteau’s Microscope and the Logic of Dada
I must admit, I approached our initial meeting this year with great excitement but also a little trepidation. You see we’ve had a bit of an enrollment boom, to put it mildly. Last year we had 16 in the workshop, this…
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The 2013 Mask
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Fancy Web Brochure
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