Manhattan Experimental Theater Workshop

a program of the Manhattan Arts Center in Manhattan, Kansas

Tag: Move on Exhale

  • Session 3: The Task is Masks

    Session 3: The Task is Masks

    I’ve realized that after today’s workshop, we are halfway through the reader! It’s always surprising to me just how quickly the workshop goes. But clearly, we are not stopping for anybody as we rolled through the day’s exercises with gusto and a new sense of focus. We began with an exercise in which the participants,…

  • Session 4: Kennedy’s Impossible Identities and Once Upon a Time with Kondoleon

    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 session, as their stillness and movement were precise from the very beginning. As always, the…

  • 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…