|
Events Conservatory Conservatory schedule (pdf) Descriptions 3/13 9:30-11:10AM: Workshop 3/12 9:00AM-12:00PM: Master Class: David Gaines – 7 (x1) Samurai 3/8 4:30-6:00PM Workshop This is a workshop exploring the basics of a movement-based approach to performance. Through exercises and improvisation we will explore the fundamental concepts of how to perform comfortably – relaxed, yet responsive – before an audience. Appropriate for people in the performing arts as well as those who must make presentations before any group. 3/3 4:00-7:00PM Professional Master Class This will be a more extensive exploration of the Lecoq approach to movement for the actor. It will involve physical exercises, exploration of personal and performance space, and relaxed improvisation before a group/audience. Its purpose will be to develop in the participant the ability to engage responsively but without strain to the events and provocations they are presented with on stage (and, by extension, in life). Sandglass Theater – All Weather Ballads 3/13 1:00-2:30PM Workshop: These 3-string marionettes are easy to build and fun to play with. Using simple materials supplied by the artist/teachers, each student is guided through the steps of assembling this versatile marionette. Make a clown, a magician, or a snakecharmer (with snake). Then we’ll offer suggestions as to how to use them in your own puppet piece. 3/9 6:00-9:00PM Master Class Drew Richardson (director of NANO / aka Drew the Dramatic Fool) 3/4 2:00-5:00PM Master Class 3/6 2:00-3:30PM Workshop Adrian Danzig, artistic director of 500 Clown - Macbeth Risk and Play 3/8 9:00AM-12:00PM Master Class * Locating and releasing onstage tension At the heart of 500 Clown theater-making is the idea that physical action is a language that all audiences speak. Risk and Play introduces students to their risk threshold and mines it for theatrical value. We have developed playful ways to work with risk that result in the creation of an active state in which action becomes stage-worthy and in which we can be provoked to action easily. Participants should dress in clothes that they can move freely in. Clothes should also be free of lettering and logos. No dangling jewelry. Bring drinking water in a container that can be sealed, and a notebook if you like to take notes. Mehr-Ayeen (Iran) - Simorgh & Zaal 3/11 2:00-3:30PM Workshop Hand Puppet Performance 3/9 6:00 – 9:00 PM Master Class Naoko Maeshiba - Parrafin 3/5 1:00-4:00PM Master Class The class offers a unique mixture of training that investigates the depth of the body and excavates body’s primal instinct. Through the synchronicity of body and mind, the potent transparent state of the body emerges, devoid of ego. Ramesh Meyyappan – Gin & Tonic Shakespeare’s language is challenging and sometimes alienating yet there is a global appreciation of the richness of his plots and characters. Participants in this workshop will have opportunities to share their understanding of Shakespeare’s texts by considering character motivations in key scenes. By using a visual vocabulary participants will access the texts and explore how they can show character and plot developments using a visual form. Kicking Pig Productions – Table of Contents 3/13 3:00-4:30PM Workshop Exploring the use of the total body in physical communication. This workshop begins with a fun physical warm-up. We will then expand the imagination, increase physical and emotional expressiveness, and bring a greater sense of detail to the body and mind of the artist of any age! Wear clothes you can move in – sweatpants, t-shirts and sneakers/movement shoes. 3/12 1:00-4:00PM Master Class Mapping the journey from the visual to the kinetic. Using a wide range of visual images, we will traverse various paths to uncovering our physical relationships with what we see. This workshop will include movement, writing, and dramaturgy for movement performance. Maximum number of students: 20 for both ADAHK – Journey to the West 3/7 9:30-11:00AM Workshop In the workshop, the talented performers from Hong Kong will introduce visual communication techniques to the participants regardless their hearing ability. They will convey messages entirely by body movement rather than words. The objective is for the participants to develop communication skills using body language to learn about one other and cooperate with each other. The participants will also get the opportunity to learn Hong Kong Sign Language. Great way to wake up your body and alert your mind! 3/9 9:00AM-12:00PM Master Class Similar to Visual Communication Theatre workshop, but with advanced training with emphasis on facial expressions and role play. Maximum # of participants: 12 for both The Nana Projects – Alonzo’s Lullaby 3/11 12:00-1:30PM Workshop Nana Projects is best known for breathtaking Magic Lantern Shows (aka overhead projector shadow puppetry) toured to festivals, art centers and schools. This unique form of puppetry blends manipulation of objects with animation tricks of Victorian Magic Lantern slide shows bringing a modern twist to pre-cinema. This class is designed to give the public a glimpse at our techniques and processes. We will lead participants through a hybrid of our residency and master class programs blending the ABC’s (Action, Background & Character) with our dramaturgical process of rough cuts and framing. We will end the day with a showcase of the days work. Max 20 people All Ages 3/5 9:30AM-12:30PM Master Class Nana Projects is best known for breathtaking Magic Lantern Shows (aka overhead projector shadow puppetry) toured to festivals, art centers and schools. This unique form of puppetry blends manipulation of objects with animation tricks of Victorian Magic Lantern slide shows bringing a modern twist to pre-cinema. Nana Projects gives a great overview of our process-taking students through our dramaturgical style. Starting with rough cuts and then framing. The class will conclude with an informal showcase of the days work. Max 20 people ADULTS 3/3 12 – 1:30 PM Panel Discussion FREE QuestFest Artists, Ramesh Meyyappan, Drew Richardson, and Sebastienne Mundheim discuss how their involvement with QuestFest has affected their work and their artistic perspective. Ramesh has been involved in every QuestFest. For Drew, this is his second QuestFest. This is her first QuestFest. 3/9 1:30 – 2:30 PM Presentation FREE Janet Tam will share information about the groundbreaking work undertaken by Arts with the Disabled Hong Kong (ADAHK). ADAHK conducts in-school, out of school, and community-based arts programming throughout Hong Kong. ADAHK also regularly conducts international arts and arts-education exchanges. The organization also serves as an umbrella for Theatre of Silence and the Hong Kong Theatre of the Deaf.
QuestFest In Your School Residency schedule ( Nana Projects: Bethesda Elementary School March 15-19 Shadow Puppets QuestFest Community Showcase March 6 Audiences can expect striking imagery with the use of puppetry and artful storytelling. And it's all FREE!!! A reception follows the performance. Reservations are recommended. Call 410-276-1651. Prior to the Community Showcase, Ms. Mundheim is teaching students in residencies at the Maryland School for the Deaf in Columbia, the Patterson Park Library Performing Arts Club, Baltimore Medical Service and the Southeast Anchor Library Photo Club in Baltimore. Mr. Aguilar, Quest Wings Company Assistant Director, is doing teaching residencies at Friendship Academy and Gwynns Falls Elementary School, both in Baltimore. Oren Sandel of Center Stage is also working with students from the Maryland School for the Deaf. See the fruits of the students’ labors – in puppetry, movement and visual art. Call 410-276-1651 now to make reservations to attend. March 13
|
, pdf) |
 |
|
