[NEohioPAL] Free Workshop at CSU: Poetry Into Performance with Tannis Kowalchuk

[CSU Theatre]

Poetry Into Performance Workshop

with Tannis Kowalchuk

Actor and co-writer for Cleveland Public Theatre's

The Confessions of Punch and Judy

Running now through February 23rd

 

Saturday, 23 February 

10am-Noon

CSU Factory Theatre Main Stage

1833 East 24th Street

Free and open to the public

Space is limited, so please e-mail theatre at csuohio.edu to reserve a spot.

                                                                          

Tannis Kowalchuk, co-founder, actress, and artistic director of NACL Theatre
(North American Cultural Laboratory), an ensemble that operates a theatre
and artists residence in Highland Lak e, NY, will be teaching a workshop on
crafting performances out of non-dramatic verse.  The workshop will instruct
the participants in ways that an actor can create his or her own original
physical and vocal material-raw material to be used as the physical subtext
of their performance piece.   The class will end with presentations of the
poetry performances, with a brief discussion and analysis to follow.

 

Please be dressed to move and bring pencil and paper for notation and
writing exercises.

Prior to coming to New York in 1997, Ms. Kowalchuk was a graduate of The
University of Winnipeg Theatre department and a core member of Primus
Theatre, a prominent experimental theatre troupe based in Winnipeg, Canada.
With NACL she has toured to Canada, England, Italy, and Balkan Europe, and
has created and performed lead roles in The Secret Storey
<http://www.nacl.org/secret.htm> , A Canon for the Blue Moon
<http://www.nacl.org/canon.htm> , ASPHYXIA and Other Promises
<http://www.nacl.org/asphyxia.htm> , Arca Nova
<http://www.nacl.org/arcanova.htm> , The Time Cycle
<http://www.nacl.org/timecycle.htm> , Invisible Neighborhood
<http://www.nacl.org/invisible.htm> , and 10 Brecht Poems
<http://www.nacl.org/brecht.htm> . 10 Brecht Poems has toured extensively to
over 30 venues. Her one-woman performance, The Passion according to G.H. has
played in New York, Toronto, Cleveland, Washington, DC, Maine, Philadelphia,
Halifax, and Montreal. 

She created The Confessions of Punch and Judy with director Raymond Bobgan
(Cleveland Public Theatre) and actor Ker Wells (Number Eleven Theatre,
Toronto). The Confessions of Punch and Judy has toured to Cleveland Public
Theatre, HERE Arts Center (New York City), Theatre Centre (Toronto, Canada),
On the Waterfront Festival (Halifax, Canada), The Network of Ensemble
Theatre's Festival (CA), The Mad River Festival (Blue Lake, CA), Manitoulin
island, and Theatre Projects Manitoba in Winnipeg. In 2005, Tannis was a
guest lecturer at Rutgers University where she played the role of Mother
Courage in Mother Courage and Her Children. She is a collaborating
artist/performer on The Mystery of Lakewood House
<http://www.nacl.org/mystery.htm> , a site specific performance developed
collaboratively at NACL with an international company in 2005/6. Kowalchuk
continues to tour her repertory throughout the year and is currently working
on NACL's newest show, The Uncanny Appearance of Sherlock
<http://www.nacl.org/sherlock_show.htm>  Holmes. 

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