M.O.V.E. (movement • observation • vision • experimentation)
January 11–15, 2010
M.O.V.E. is dedicated to investigating diverse physical theatre training. Our aim is to bring together theatre practitioners to train and investigate how the juxtaposition of different movement pedagogies can inform one another in a movement-laboratory setting. Our emphasis is on the exploration and application of these techniques related to performance, teaching and directing. The M.O.V.E. intensive is in collaboration with The Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME).
The ASU Herberger Institute School of Theatre and Film educates imaginative, knowledgeable, skilled and responsible artists, teachers, scholars and audience members. Through inventive curricula, innovative programming and the latest digital production technology, the School of Theatre and Film is paving the way to the future of the theatre and film arts.
Lecoq Clown
Workshop Leader: David Gaines
This workshop will focus on the sensitivity and playfulness of clowning. Uncovering the general principles of interacting on stage as actors and clowns, each session will involve physical exercise, coordination (mind-body connection), movements and playful improvisation.
David Gaines is a successful movement performer who has taught mask and clown at the renowned Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, as well as in the graduate school of the University of Missouri – Kansas City. He currently is touring his solo show, 7 (x1) Samurai, which won the Best Solo Show award at the 2008 Capital Fringe Festival. He also is working for the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit in Washington, D.C.
Margolis Method
Method Leader: Kari Margolis
The Margolis Method takes you on a dynamic, theatrical journey to the creative core of the actor! Learn to create on your feet, free your voice and enliven your physical instrument. Kari Margolis has spent the last three decades exploring and codifying the technique of the actor, resulting in an abundance of practicable, applicable exercises and improvisation structures. The skill sets of actor, director and playwright are merged to develop a powerful three-dimensional theatre artist.
Kari Margolis’s theatrical research and performance work has been recognized with six National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a NY “Bessie,” a Creative Capital National Fellowship, a Pew TCG National Artist Fellowship and multiple McKnight Foundation Fellowships, among many other prestigious awards. The workshops will be led by either Kari Margolis or Kym Longhi, certified Margolis Method teacher.
Rasaboxes:
Training the Athlete of the Emotions
Workshop Leader: Rachel Bowditch
Rasaboxes training combines the classical Indian idea of “rasa,” which can be translated as juice or flavor, with Antonin Artaud’s demand that actors become “athletes of the emotions.” As a departure from psychological realism, Rasaboxes liberates performers to explore emotion in relation to objects, text, composition and scene work through the body.
Rachel Bowditch is a performer, theatre director, performance studies scholar and an assistant professor in the Herberger Institute School of Theatre and Film at Arizona State University. She trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. A certified rasaboxes instructor, she has studied and assisted in rasaboxes presentations and workshops with Richard Schechner, Paula Murray Cole and Michele Minnick since 2002. Her directing work has been depicted in Live Design and American Theatre.
Fitzmaurice Voicework
Workshop Leader: Micha Espinosa
(Morning warm-up)
Fitzmaurice Voicework explores the dynamics between body, breath, voice, the imagination and language. It encourages vibrant voices that communicate intention and emotion without excess effort.
Micha Espinosa is an assistant professor of voice and acting in the Herberger Institute School of Theatre and Film at Arizona State University. For the past decade, she has taught voice, speech and movement workshops nationally and internationally.
M.O.V.E.
Winter Intensive
For five days, participants will be immersed in a rigorous movement intensive from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. studying these four techniques side-by-side. In the evenings, there will be guided theoretical dialogue about the intersections and application of the work. During the intensive, a performance of Dodging Bullets will be presented by David Barker, professor in the ASU Herberger Institute School of Theatre and Film.
Tuition: Tuition is $500 for the five-day intensive and does not include flight or lodging costs. Tuition includes all three workshops, morning vocal warm-up, integration sessions and Dodging Bullets performance.
Three academic credits are available to qualified students through Arizona State University Winter Session. Additional tuition fees apply. Check back for more information on this credit option.
Registration fee is due Oct. 30, 2009.
Register by Sept. 18, 2009 for a 10-percent discount.
All fees are non-refundable except in the event of program cancellation.
Location: All sessions will be held at Arizona State University’s Tempe campus in the ASU Herberger Institute School of Theatre and Film facilities.
M.O.V.E. 2010 Coordinator:
Rachel Bowditch (ASU)
If you have questions, please e-mail Rachel Bowditch at: rachel.bowditch@asu.edu
M.O.V.E. Co-founders
Rachel Bowditch and Sara Romersberger
Sara Romersberger is Associate Professor of Theatre, Southern Methodist University M.A., University of Illinois, and holds a Certificate of Mime and Movement from Ecole Jacques Lecoq.
M.O.V.E. 2010 Student Assistant: Nicholas Broderick
Dodging Bullets solo show performed by David Barker
January 14, 2010 at
8 p.m.
Lyceum Theatre, ASU
$7
Tickets are available now by calling the box office 480-965-6447.
Hours are Tue - Fri 11 to 6, and Saturday noon to 4. They are also available at the ASU Herberger website.
DODGING BULLETS
In the summer of 2004 David Barker began a sabbatical with the intention of developing a new solo show; a personal, soul-searching exploration marking the milestone of turning 50. Nothing happened until... On July 6th 2004 at 12:15 p.m. in an upscale Boston suburb, his brother-in-law, a successful brain surgeon, tried to kill Barker's sister and Barker himself as his 16 year-old niece watched. Dodging Bullets is a compelling journey through these horrific events and is performed with visceral truth by Barker as he brings to life 10 people in this new solo show.