*ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN* March 24, April 7, April 21, and May 5 10:30am-12:00pm Attend as many Adventures as you like (or all of them)! Adventures Into the Unknown is a series of open explorations touching on aspects of the Michael Chekhov technique. Memorize a minute of text that you enjoy in case the Adventure we find ourselves on leads us there. $20.00 each, or all four for $70.00! *INSPIRATION and THE FEELING OF BEAUTY* May 18 & 19, 2019 10:30am-2:30pm each day Inspiration: where does it come from? Beauty: what is it? How can we deepen our access to both and apply it to our performance work? Your investment is $110.00 for eight hours of exploration. Register by April 17th and receive a $15.00 discount! *WHO ARE THESE OFFERINGS FOR?* Each is open to a maximum of eight performing artists (ages 18 and up) both new to or with experience in the Michael Chekhov Technique. *WHERE DO WE MEET?* Art On Madison 14203 Madison Avenue Lakewood, OH 44107 Plenty of free parking is available on Madison (meters do not run on weekends) and nearby side streets. *I HAVE QUESTIONS!* Great! Email them to michaelchekhovcenter (at) gmail (dot) com. *HOW DO I REGISTER?* Registration and further information about the sessions can be found at http://www.raycaspio.com/mc3 under the UPCOMING CLASS OFFERINGS section. *I'M AN LGBTQ-IDENTIFYING ARTIST AND WANT TO JOIN YOU, BUT FIND MYSELF NEEDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE. CAN YOU HELP?* Absolutely! I've been in that situation, and want to work with you. Please open the discussion by sending an e-mail to michaelchekhovcenter (at) gmail (dot) com detailing your situation and proposed need, and we'll find a solution together. (This offer is open to LGBTQ-identifying artists only! Thanks.) *HOW DOES MC3 APPROACH THE MICHAEL CHEKHOV TECHNIQUE?* The Michael Chekhov Technique is a holistic, psycho-physical approach to performance that synthesizes the actor's body and psychology. You discover how the magic of your movement, in tandem with your imagination and feeling life, has the ability to enliven the spaces within yourself and the spaces around you. Solo and ensemble explorations in movement, concentration, atmosphere, and gesture increase your flexibility, honesty, joy, and ease as a performing artist. You learn to free your body as a conduit for the soul of your character. Your Creative Individuality is supported and nourished, and your artistic work becomes more inspired. *WHO LEADS THE SESSIONS?* Ray Caspio creates beautifully grotesque characters whose comedic allure invites you into their queer realities, where they unpack American culture and scrutinize the multifaceted manners in which we relate to each other. His work recognizes the immediacy and impermanence of performance by embracing theatre as a living event. Who is in the room matters. The work becomes as alive as we are: conscious, truthful, and existing in that moment when we all gather to play. Ray is a performance artist, teaching artist, actor, and the Founder and Artistic Director of Michael Chekhov Center Cleveland. He has created pieces spanning theatre, cabaret, installation, web, and personal storytelling; served as performer-creator in numerous devised pieces; and originated over 30 roles. His live work has been performed at Playhouse Square, Dobama Theatre, Cleveland Public Theatre, convergence-continuum, Playwrights Local, Talespinner Children’s Theatre, Theater Ninjas (Associate Artistic Director 2012-2015), and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Caspio appeared on Best of Theatre lists for Cleveland Scene Magazine (2014 & 2017) and WCPN/NPR’s The Sound of Applause (2014, for the conception and performance of the immersive cabaret exploration of gender, sexuality, and marriage equality, TingleTangle). In 2014, he was profiled as Scene’s “Thespian”. Ray’s training consists of the Michael Chekhov technique (Michael Chekhov School, Hudson, NY; MICHA: the International Michael Chekhov organization), Bouffon (Giovanni Fusetti), Eccentric Performance (Avner Eisenberg & Julie Goell), the Alba Method, and Improvisation and Comedy Writing (Second City Chicago). Caspio has taught for Playhouse Square, Disney Musicals-in-Schools, Cleveland Play House Theatre Academy, MetroHealth Arts in Medicine, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Ray received a 2016 Creative Workforce Fellowship. ”If you can find in your soul a little bit of astonishment, you have already taken a step forward. To be a little astonished by imaginary things. Everything about which we are astonished, about which we are filled with wonder, gives us always something new. The artist has always to feel everything as now — as if for the first time. That is the power of the artist. That is the real impulsive power of the artist, to be astonished every time about everything.” — Michael Chekhov October 8, 1936