Granary presents
IMPROVISATION MASTER-CLASS
GRANARY STUDIO 16 & 17 JULY 10am - 5PM
Having honed improv skills enables an actor to be more reactive, interactive, and totally in-the-moment at auditions and in performance. Improv can be used to develop original material and characters as well as are rehearsal tool to explore written text. In this master-class,performers will work through two different but related approaches.
Andy Crook: Working with the body in space, performers will explore how they can find true play and means of self-expression. Through simple exercises and physical actions they can find a true connection with the material they create. Performers will explore and release the different dynamics of the body order to create vibrant work using rhythm, physical musicality and each other. Performers will discover how they can extend their physical impulses to inhabit an exiting world of new possibilities.
John Dawson: Performers will explore various improv processes using collaborative games and exercises to develop personal intuitive skills, mental/emotional agility and heightened communication abilities. The elements of narrative; plot, character, conflict and resolution are emphasized along with the automatic acceptance of ‘offers’ to advance and develop scenic moments.
By melding these approaches, actors will learn to instantly create engaging, truthful and highly reactive characters in well-constructed scenic stories.
COST: 95.00 euro (35.00 euro deposit is required to enroll)
Email: improvplay@gmail.com
Phone: Andy: 087 92582166 and/or John: 087 2062004
ANDY CROOK trained at the Ecole International Jacques Lecoq and has taught acting and movement for over 20 years. He is an actor and director who has worked with several innovative theatre companies across Europe, UK and USA. He has taught in various accredited drama schools in the UK, most recently at the Birmingham School of Acting where he was Senior Acting Tutor as well as Director of the Community & Applied Theatre programme and Physical Theatre programme both of which he created. Andy taught for eight years on the professional
acting programme at Trinity College Dublin where he was Associated Course Co-ordinator and later Course Co-ordinator. Andy still performs and jointly won Best Male performer Award at the Dublin Fringe Festival performing with Articulate Anatomy Theatre Company, a physical theatre company he founded in 2003.
JOHN DAWSON studied and acted with numerous comedy troupes including N. America’s famous Second City (the forerunner of Saturday Night Live). He teaches master-classes and workshops in improvisation,
characterization, scene study, audition technique and on-camera acting with institutions in Ireland and abroad, including The Actors Centre in London, Dublin’s Gaiety School of Acting, The Galway Film Centre, Toronto’s Equity Showcase Theatre and Trinity College’s Samuel Beckett
Centre. He is a produced screenwriter/director with numerous films in development. John co-wrote and directed three plays devised through improv, performed at Andrews Lane Theatre and co-wrote for Articulate
Anatomy in 2005.
BLOOD+BANDAGE WORKSHOPS
Having discussed the various ideas raised at the recent BLOOD+BANDAGE meetings we have decided to take the initiative of mounting 8 three-day workshops beginning in February.
Meridian and the Granary are contributing €3,000 to get the first four moving with €750 being allocated as a maximum amount for each workshop. Graffiti and the Granary will host the workshops, which will begin in late February.
Meridian will mount and pay for another workshop independent of the core fund and in order to complete the 8 workshops, we would like to invite funded colleagues to contribute what they can to facilitate the full workshop programme.
Ideas are the other vital resource and we would urge anyone who has one to send in a very brief proposal so that we can see what can be done. Other aspects of BLOOD+BANDAGE are obviously still up for discussion but this is an effort to move things along in a way we think everyone wants.
Ideas don't have to be fully-formed; fragments are fruitful, so take that half-formed notion and let it see the light of day.
Submissions to:
BLOOD+BANDAGE
Granary Theatre
Mardyke
CORK
info@granary.ie
Puore Productions & Clinic Media
in association with The Granary Theatre present
FEAR & OBSESSION IN CORK CITY
- A WORKSHOP
Saturday 17th of May, Granary Studio, 3pm-5pm
Admission Free
Cork based theatre practitioners Eoin Ó hAnnracháin (director, Howie The Rookie & Falling Slowly) and Kate McSwiney O’Rourke (actress, Lifeboat & Vanity, Vapours and Dizzy Debutantes) are developing a play based on the themes of fear and obsession.
As part of the evolution of this project we are inviting actors to join us for a two hour workshop where we can test out our ideas and experiment with participants’ points of view.
The number of characters involved in this project and the direction for the story have not yet been finalised but, with regard to the final production, we are not making any promises to those who attend the workshop.
The workshop will explore your imagination, utilise your instinct, require you to think on your feet and be creative, all in the space of two hours!
Class size is limited so if you are interested in participating please send your CV, Headshot and/or relevant experience to clinicproductions@gmail.com
Perforum & Rehearsed Readings
Autumn 2007
Weds. 7th November: “What Kind of theatre do we want to make?” William Galinsky (Director, Cork Midsummer Festival)
Tues 13th November: Post-show discussion with Writer and cast of Rough Magic’s Improbable Frequency at Cork Opera House.
Weds 21 Nov “Vincent “ written & directed by Kenneth Hickey
A tale of redemption through art, excess and prostitution. A recently widowed Vincent travels to the city of lights with a threefold plan for
self destruction. Firstly to view the works of his great dutch namesake, secondly for one last time to enjoy the company of a lady of the night and thirdly to throw himself into the Seine. But things rarely work out the way they are planned.
Wed 28th Nov “Idiot Wind” written by Neil O’Sullivan, directed by Tony McCleane-Fay
Idiot Wind is a new play from Neil O'Sullivan, the writer of the Midsummer Festival hit show 'Meat' and writer/performer of Gullibles Travels seen at Granary in September.
Weds 5th December 'Feeling Spaces - a Performance Project' Dr Martin Welton, (Queen Mary University, London)
Thur 6th Dec “Elevator Music” written by Donnchadh O’Conaill, directed by Cormac O’Callahain
Weds 12th December "The Artists' Initiative": Irene Murphy (Cork Arts Collective) and Julie Forrester (Cork Art Trail)
Wed 19th Dec "Shostakovich” written & performed by Jack Healy, directed by Cormac O’Connor.
Jack Healy reads from work in preparation for a one man show based on the life of the famous Russian composer. Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was born into Russia under the last Tsar and grew up into the emerging Soviet state. When his opera; "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" drew the wrath of Stalin, he came close to annihilation and was saved only by dint of his international reputation. He survived to live a life where he had to constantly mediate between the needs of his own personal aesthetic and the controlling impositions of the Communist State where the cultural needs of "the people" were paramount. He still managed to be hugely prolific and died in the seventies leaving an immense and varied body of work behind him.
SNATCH COMEDY IMPROV WORKSHOP
A long time has passed since our last workshop, so we decided to organize one for the month of June. We are going to do (as usual) one workshop per month for then next couple of months.
The Workshop on June will be introductory, since there is a lot of new people who are interested in joining our workshops so we want to emphazise the basic elements of Improv and have some fun with them! Book as soon as possible since we have a limited amount of places for this workshop!
Date: Sunday 18th of June
Place: Granary Theatre
Time: 1pm to 6pm
Cost: €15
Bookings: in order to book a place for this workshop, please send an email to info@snatchcomedy.com or contact 0868444102
We hope to see you there!!!
WEEKEND OF WORKSHOPS WITH MASTER CLOWN - JOHN LEE
John is a UK based performer and teacher who has years of experience in the field of clowning with a list of credentials as long as your arm. He will be giving a series of workshops in Granary over the weekend of June 10th for both beginners and advanced.
Friday 9th - 6pm to 9pm / €10
open session for all levels, working on elementary clowning techniques
Saturday 10th - 10am to 6pm / €15
clowning techniques, improv and divising techniques for the more advanced performers
Sunday 11th - 10am to 6pm / €15
clowning techniques, improv and divising techniques for the more advanced performers
There is a special weekend rate of €35 for all three days
Advanced booking is essential.
A deposit guarantees your place.
For bookings and more info, contact: Cathal 087 41482199; Arran 086 8134149
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INTERNATIONAL ACTING-DIRECTING LABORATORY
under the guidance of Sergey Ostrenko which will take place in Bologna, Italy from July 3-8, 2006
The program includes intensive practical training, theoretical discussions and lectures. During the workshop participants will get acquainted with the system of exercises elaborated during the long-term research carried out by Ostrenko together with the members of IUGTE Creative Laboratory. The research was developed by the team of professional directors, actors, dancers, choreographers and psychologists with specialization in performing arts and creativity.
Ostrenko training is an intensive, saturated and consecutive process. The atmosphere is conducive to exploration, demands alert involvement and personal investment in the process; this is a nurturing and challenging environment, a safe place within which to take creative risks!
More Details: http://www.iugte.com/projects/Italy.php
The Laboratory will take place in a cosy and quiet tourist centre located about 15 km away from Bologna centre.
IUGTE will provide accommodation and vegetarians meals during the workshop.
Registration:
In order to register it is necessary to send the detailed CV and the brief description of motivation to info@usanu.co.uk
as soon as possible. There are only 20 places in the group.
Registration fee including accommodation and meals (vegetarian):
450 EUR - by transferring the fee before June 1st, 2006. 540 EUR - by transferring the fee after June 1st, 2006.
Registration fee without accommodation and meals (vegetarian):
250 EUR - by transferring the fee before June 1st, 2006. 300 EUR - by transferring the fee after June 1st, 2006.
For IUGTE members – 20% discount. The bank details will be sent upon participant's request.
WELCOME TO OSTRENKO INTERNATIONAL LABORATORY!
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Sacred Theatre Workshop
with Sandra Lee Hughes and Franco Santoro
2-8 September 2006
Findhorn Foundation - Forres, Scotland
Sacred Theatre is an act of service as old as humankind. It has found form and expression in every culture on our planet at one time or another. Its value lies in its ability to dynamically connect us to ourselves, each other, our community, our planet, the universe and, at times, to the divine and beyond. – Sandra Lee Hughes
Gateway’s Artistic Director - internationally recognized performer, director, choreographer Sandra Lee Hughes - returns to the Findhorn Foundation - www.findhorn.org - in Scotland to join international workshop facilitator and Findhorn Foundation faculty member Franco Santoro to co-focalize a week-long Sacred Theatre workshop. Participants will have the opportunity to explore the uses of mime, dance, mask, puppetry, text, chant, song, and instrumental music as elements of dramatic expression as they journey through image, movement, sound and emotion to the core of who they are as individuals living in community The workshop process culminates at Findhorn’s Universal Hall with the sharing of an original Sacred Theatre Event created by participants.
For booking please contact: bookings@findhorn.org
For on-line information about the Sacred Theatre Workshop: Brochure 2005/Programme
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