[NEohioPAL] CPT announces Spring WORKSHOP offereings!

[Faye Hargate]

Cleveland Public Theatre announces Spring Workshop Offerings!
Enrollment is limited.

OFFERINGS
The Body Motive
a primer in unique ways of combining text and physical action
March 23rd, 10am-4pm
Led by Canadian theatre artist and founding member of Primus Theatre, Ker Wells
$70

Singing the Forest through the Trees
an exploration of singing, speaking, and sounding
March 30th, 10-2pm
Led by NACL Theatre Artistic Director Tannis Kowalchuk, and Company Artist Brett Keyser
$50

Double Crossing the Devils
a moving meditation aimed at recovering the soul of your bedeviled creative life
April 6th, 10-2pm
Led by NACL Theatre Company Artist Brett Keyser, and NACL Artistic Director Tannis Kowalchuk
$50

Introduction to Fitzmaurice Voicework®
an exploration of  the dynamics between body, breath, voice, the imagination, language, and presence
April 14th, 10am-5pm
Led by acclaimed Cleveland theatre artist Holly Holsinger
$90

TO ENROLL
Email CPT Education Associate, Faye Hargate, at fhargate at cptonline.org<mailto:fhargate at cptonline.org>
ENROLLMENT DEADLINE: one week prior to workshop date

WORKSHOP FEES
Sign up for more than one workshop and receive a 20% discount.

MORE ON WORKSHOPS AND ARTISTS
The Body Motive: A primer in unique ways of combining text and physical action. Bring a piece of text that you like, but not something you have previously spoken in rehearsal or performance. The text can be fiction or non-fiction and does not need to come from a play or dramatic text. You must have the text thoroughly committed to memory before workshop or all is for nought. Please do not bring text taken from a book of monologues. Minimum 100 words. No maximum. You will be asked to push yourself physically and we'll work up a sweat, but all levels and kinds of ability will be accommodated.

Ker Wells is a graduate of the acting program at The National Theatre School of Canada. From 1989 to 1997, as a founding member of Primus Theatre, he trained, performed and taught across North America and Europe, creating indoor performances, radio dramas, and outdoor parade spectacles. In 1998 Wells co-founded Number Eleven Theatre, with whom he created and directed Icaria, The Prague Visitor, and The Curious History of Peter Schlemihl. Other original works include the two-person The Confessions of Punch and Judy, and Living Tall, which have toured widely in North America and Europe. A new solo performance, entitled Swimmer (68), premiered to critical acclaim in Toronto in June 2011. Also in 2011 he directed Exilio, created with U.S. and Mexican artists in Guadalajara, Mexico, and began work on struck with NACL Theatre. Wells is currently one of two candidates in a new MFA Directing program created by The Canadian Stage Company in partnership with York University, and will direct two productions in Canadian Stage's 2013/14 season, including Macbeth in Toronto's High Park. In the spring of 2014 Wells will enter a two-month residency with Dutch director Ivo Van Hove and Amsterdam's Toneelgroep Theatre. Wells has been a returning guest faculty member at the National Theatre School of Canada, the Humber College School of Performing Arts, and The Contemporary Opera Lab at the University of Manitoba.

Singing the Forest through the Trees: An exploration of singing, speaking, and sounding. Bring instruments and/or objects you might use to generate sound. Bring a blanket and a traditional song to share. We will be moving, so wear unrestrictive, comfortable clothes that won't make a lot of noise.

Double Crossing the Devils:  a moving meditation aimed at recovering the soul of your bedeviled creative life when your grinding work life has devil-dog-dared you to get up off your knees. This workshop will be physically rigorous and will include working with text, drawing on the voice work of the previous week's workshop (though the prior workshop is not a pre-requisite). We will investigate the process (the peaks and the pitfalls) of using personal experience as source material-and touch upon that singularly hellish prospect of staring down the devil of disenchantment-when life's lemons outnumber life's... (insert sweet of choice here. Tannis says licorice!)

Tannis Kowalchuk is co-founder, actress, and artistic director of NACL Theatre. Tannis has created and performed in over 16 NACL productions and has toured to Canada, England, Italy, and Balkan Europe. Tannis runs the NACL Theatre center and artist residence, curating The Deep Space Residency program, The Catskill Festival of New Theatre, and leads the theatre education classes at NACL. In 2008 she became a mother and began an organic vegetable and flower farm near NACL Theatre. Tannis is a graduate of The University of Winnipeg theatre department and was a core member of Primus Theatre, a prominent experimental theatre troupe based in Canada from 1990-97. Current projects include struck, Shakespeare's Will by Vern Thiessen, and The Little Farm Show. Past performances include: Self Portrait at County Fair (2009), a new script written exclusively for NACL by Michael Geither, Butorides (2009), a site-specific dance theatre performance in the Delaware River featuring 10 local women and girls, The Lost Book of Lakewood House (2009), an ongoing series and site specific performance about the history of the Catskills and its Hotel Era. Hatchings (2008), a solo performance about childbirth presented at NACL Theatre. The Uncanny Appearance of Sherlock Holmes (2008,) in the role of Dr. John Watson at HERE Arts Center (New York City), and The Mystery of Lakewood House (2007). Other significant performances include The Confessions of Punch and Judy created and performed with Ker Wells and director Raymond Bobgan, 10 Brecht Poems, a collaboration with Leese Walker of Strike Anywhere, and The Passion according to G.H., a solo performance directed by Brad Krumholz.

Brett Keyser is an artist and administrator with NACL, collaborating on struck, The Little Farm Show (2010-present), Exilio: My Life as Bolaño (2010-11), Self-Portrait at County Fair (by Mike Geither, 2009), The Lost Book of Lakewood House (2009), The Uncanny Appearance of Sherlock Holmes (2006-08), and The Mystery of Lakewood House (2006). He is the proprietor of Nightjar Apothecary, designing and performing original, science-themed theatrical works and installations for museums, theatres, and public thoroughfares. Works include Darwinii: The Comeuppance of Man (with Glen Berger, 2009-present); The Christmas Lectures of M. Nearanight (2010); Tann, Horns, & Dead Dogs: Tales of Civic Effluvia (2008); You Are Here (2007-08); Turkish Delightenment (2006-07); and Horridus! Horridus! Name-calling in the Wilderness (2003-04). He was a core collaborator with the Cleveland experimental groups Wishhounds and Theatre Labyrinth, working on Blue Sky Transmission: A Tibetan Book of the Dead (2002), Even Without Angels (2001), The Hidden Twin (2001), The Sibyl (1998-2000), Transformations of Lucius (1999), Never Speak to Strangers (1998), and The Warbling Carousel (1996). His work is rooted in early training at Odin Teatret in Denmark, Winnipeg's Primus Theatre, and the San Francisco School of Circus Arts. He has a degree in Folklore and Folklife Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a PA Performing Arts on Tour artist, and a 2010 recipient of the Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts.

Introduction to Fitzmaurice Voicework® Fitzmaurice Voicework® is a comprehensive approach to voice training that can include, as needed, work on breathing, resonance, speech, dialects, impromptu speaking, text, singing, and voice with movement. While the training is specific, it is also compatible with other approaches. Fitzmaurice Voicework® explores the dynamics between body, breath, voice, the imagination, language, and presence. It encourages vibrant voices that communicate intention and feeling without excess effort. The work brings together physical experience and mental focus. Destructuring, the first phase, promotes awareness of the body, spontaneous and free breathing, and vocal expressivity, through Tremorwork® and sometimes also hands-on interventions. Restructuring, the second phase, encourages economy of effort while speaking or performing, using modified bel canto techniques and Catherine's "focus line". The resulting freedom and focus allow for a wide range of vocal expression without strain. There are many practical benefits to improved vocal functioning. And, since breath and voice lie at the intersection of the material and the non-material, this work can also assist in creative, intellectual, and spiritual growth.

Holly Holsinger is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Cleveland State University where she specializes in teaching acting, voice, and movement, as well devised theatre techniques. She has been a Cleveland theatre artist for the past eighteen years and has created/performed in over fifteen original plays including Blue Sky Transmission and her solo piece Frankenstein's Wake, both of which toured Off-Broadway. She recently premiered in a play she co-devised entitled Insomnia: The Waking of Herselves at Cleveland Public Theatre. Holly is a certified as an Associate Teacher of the Fitzmaurice Voice technique. Her areas of focus in the Fitzmaurice model include using breath to connect with personal creativity, linking text to inner process, and exploring the voice as action.She received an MFA in Acting from the University of California, Irvine where she studied with Robert Cohen, Dudley Knight and Jerzy Grotowski.


Faye Hargate
Education Associate
Cleveland Public Theatre
6415 Detroit Ave
Cleveland, OH 44102
216.631.2727 x207
fhargate at cptonline.org<mailto:fhargate at cptonline.org>
www.cptonline.org<http://www.cptonline.org>


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