Category: 2012
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Session 6: Images
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Session 5: Gao and shange
by Gwethalyn In the first part of session 5 we played a little bit of a game we have coined Pineapple Umbrella. It is really just a slight variation on our usual shape making exercises where we have added the element of calling out words when the participants are to change shapes, rather than just…
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Session 5: Movement
If you play all videos at the same time, that’s ALMOST what the workshop feels like. Also I now want to make a remix of Gweth giving directions… [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4m–3XrUew] direct and indirect movement – shapemaking with sustain and tension [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emm4wwH6q5E] pineapple umbrella [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zke1q5B0e8Q] blind walk building a mountain
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Session 4: Movement
I have been having camera troubles this year (not to mention lighting troubles with the theater space we’ve been working in, we really need more lights hung). But here’s some exercises from session 4: al-Hakim and Akalaitis. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_BUnUMTn_8] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF-Bkj3AvOc] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRTBz0I-n5c] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueVPkUw0I3c] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLq6sXgbgrQ] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn0PLA58mPQ]
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Session 4: al-Hakim and Akalaitis
by Gwethalyn In session 4 we knew we were going to lose several participants to a choir concert half way through the session, so we spent a little more time in the movement exercises before the readings than we usually do, for we were working on one of the true staples of our staging techniques,…
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Session 3: Grotowski and Foreman
By Gwethalyn In the first part of session three we did a little of the exercise called lay/sit/stand, led by Chad. This is an exercise in which you can either be (you guessed it) laying, sitting, or standing, or moving between one and the other. It is about stopping and starting and precision in transition,…
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Session 2: Kokoschka & Brecht
By Gwethalyn We started session two with some vocal work. We used the surprisingly hard to articulate but truly tasty sentence: “Breathing dark things became clear to me.” Taken from one of our readings later in the day. We only did about ten minutes of work with this sentence, but by the end it was…