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COME LEARN ABOUT MXTW AT OUR PIZZA PARTY!
MXTW 2023 registration is now open. Come learn about the workshop, play some games, and eat some pizza at this casual information session. WHEN: Saturday, April 1 from 7:00 – 8:30 pm WHERE: Manhattan Arts Center 1520 Poyntz Ave, Manhattan…
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Weeks 5 & 6: Metamorphosis
We’re in the homestretch now. It’s the last two weeks of the workshop and the company members are working on making decisions about how they want the pieces they have written to sound and look, practicing, and recording their performances.…
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Weeks 3 & 4: Echos & Reflections
For the past two weeks, we have been busy creating our pieces for the show. With that, we are excited to announce that this year’s target story will be (drum roll please)… the Greek myth of Echo and Narcissus. Our…
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Week Two: Gifts
Week two of the workshop is always one of the most fun. The work done in week one begins bearing fruit as the participants gain confidence. They start layering in previously explored skills and incorporating multiple concepts into the games…
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Week 1: Screens
Working with our Screens The first week of the workshop is always about introducing the participants to the skills and ideas they need to be successful in creating their work. This means playing games that grow their understanding of what…
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We’re back, virtual, and ready to begin
Hello again. Try as I might, I have found it absolutely impossible to begin blogging about this year’s workshop without first acknowledging last year’s workshop and the lack of blog posts about it. I think (and maybe some of you…
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A grinning face in the static forest
How the 2020 mask was made The mask for this year, like many years, went through a lot of different prototypes before arriving at it’s final form. I tried many different things, but won’t be sharing those, because we’ll probably…
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Experimental Experimenting
At some point in the middle of our time in isolation (don’t ask me for exact dates because I’m under the impression everything happened last week when it probably was two months ago) we came together to figure out how…
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This summer we will make theater together while we’re apart!
MXTW Responds to the Pandemic Due to the COVID-19 pandemic this summer’s Manhattan Experimental Theater Workshop will be held as an online course. We did not come to this decision lightly. We know that a great deal of what we…