Tag: Experimental Theater
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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 KS Please wear comfortable clothes you can move in. We hope to see you there!…
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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 value about the experience MXTW offers is because of our work together in the same…
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Session 6: Colliding Images
“It was a wordless world she gave me.” The participants started today’s session by disrupting everyday speaking patterns using this line from the Diane Glancy play we would be reading later. First, they tried manipulating the speed of the line: saying it as fast as they could, as slow as they could, and speeding up…
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Session 5: Making Music
Megan called today’s rehearsal “the best day of the year” because we were scheduled to play Word Jazz–her favorite game. Every participant, past and present, could tell you their favorite exercise from the workshop if you asked them (mine is Quartets). But why do we get so excited for the same games over and over…
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Session 4: Problems and Solutions
Today we temporarily moved from our usual rehearsal space to the JNT Company office space. A little disoriented, but ready to keep learning, we started our session by exploring our new space. How is the size and shape of the room different? How is the sound different? How does the concrete floor feel on bare…
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Session 2: Sounding in the Storm
“We don’t whine enough.” Megan made this hilarious statement during warm-ups as she instructed us to whine while pretending to suck on a sour lemon drop. But honestly, she’s right! Not just about whining, but about all the things we deny ourselves on a daily basis: yelling, wailing, spinning, tumbling, etc. As humans, we have…
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Session 1: Pure Actor-Research
“I became twice as excited when I walked in here because the energy was so great!” Here is the remark of one new participant as we began the ritualistic process of introducing ourselves that comes with the start of any collaborative process. It made me reflect on what I felt like my first day of…
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MXTW 2018 is Starting Strong!
We have 18 passionate participants and four dedicated directors who are already three sessions in to this year’s theatrical adventure. he died saying that farce is a poetic element like sorrow for example then they sang crocrocrocrocrocrocro We have tried our hands at performing some Dada and discussed the dramatic tension of Beckett’s later minimalistic…
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MXTW is Norway Bound!
We’re taking this show on the road. It is with great delight that we announce we are close enough to our fundraising goals for the Norway exchange that we will be making the trip! We have nine students and two directors who can’t wait to go show Oslo audiences our work! We have raised over…