SAVE THE DATE: Red Tent Fabrik Open Rehearsal @ Joyce SoHo

RED TENT FABRIK

SAVE THE DATE

MONDAY DEC 20th - 
7:30-9:00 PM

We have had a wonderful fall developing material for our project Red Tent Fabrik, a devised piece of theater exploring the common roots of the three Abrahamic religions -- Islam, Judaism and Christianity -- through movement, song and text.  We would like to invite you into our developmental process for your responses and your feedback. Please join us for a half hour open rehearsal and talk back and an opportunity to meet the artists who are creating this work.

Soraya Broukhim • Winsome Brown • Aneesah Dambreville • Darci Fulcher • Kimberly Guzowski • Eliza Ladd • Anna Podolak • Vernice P. Miller

JOYCE SOHO

155 Mercer Street

(between Houston and Prince)

New York, NY 10012 
RSVP 718-773-6803 or RTF@ALATetc.com

This work was created in part through The Field's Emerging Artist Residency program, supported by the Tides Foundation.

Photos by Eric Guzowski

A Laboratory for Actor Training Experimental Theater Company is a collective of artists from diverse cultures who are engaged in theater that is steeped in the principles of ensemble-oriented performance.  ALATetc is a not-for- profit venture and as such our work would not be possible without the generous support of our donors like you.  

 ALATetc is a fiscally sponsored project of The Field, an arts service organization which is not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501 (c) (3) organizations serving the New York City performing arts community. Contributions to ALATetc through The Field are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. 

 For more information about The Field contact: The Field, 161 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY 10013, (212) 691-6969, fax: (212) 255-2053.   ALAT 
: : 718-773-6803

LAST Nite Out for Skrip Orchestra in New York!

Tonight Halloween Eve - It’s a party!

  Last chance to see Slovenia's SKRIP Orkestra in New York!!

Please come out and join us as star of stage and screen the unstoppable comedienne, Hazelle Goodman sends SKRIP off with laughter.

 

Come dressed in costume and be eligible to win a prize
at our fun(d)-raising reception to inaugurate The Institute for Crimes against Culture

Hors d'œuvres courtesy of
Celebrity chef Cheryl Smith, 

owner of Cheryl's Global Soul

photo source - ymib.com

Tonight!!

  Saturday October 30th.
8pm-11pm
Tickets $20

South Oxford Space
@ 138 South Oxford Street 

(between Atlantic Avenue and Fulton Street)
Brooklyn, NY 11217.
A few blocks over from BAM
 

  718-773-6803 for more information

Hosted by Asher Baumrin with teen, rock band Opaque                                                               

Presented by GLEJ Theatre of Ljubljana and A LABORATORY FOR ACTOR TRAINING  Experimental Theater Company, Inc
Food, Friends & Fun
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Vernice P. Miller
Founding Artistic Director
A LABORATORY FOR ACTOR TRAINING Experimental Theater Company      

 Halloween week-end SKRIP Orkestra from Slovenia In New York to Screech for youth all over the world!
(718) 773-6803  

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REMINDER: Last two events with SKRIP Orkestra!

Dear Friends, Colleagues and Family-

We are inviting you to be part of this very special final two events with SKRIP Orkestra in New York.

Last week’s performances at John Jay College’s Gerald W. Lynch Theater went exceptionally well and was attended by several reviewers including playwright, Karen Malpede who will write about this project for The Drama Review.

Now I need your help to make the last two events successful.  Please come out and join us and please help spread the word by forwarding this mailer to at least five friends (one for each former-Yugoslav nation).

                   

*SKRIP Unplugged!
Inaugurating The Institute for Crimes against Culture with the
U.S. premiere of Slovenia's SKRIP Orkestra in cabaret performances for two nights only in Brooklyn!

Cabaret Performances for 2 nights in Brooklyn
Friday, October 29th at 7:30pm
&
Saturday, October 30th at 8pm
@
South Oxford Space
138 South Oxford Street
(between Atlantic Avenue and Fulton Street)
Brooklyn, NY 11217.
A few blocks over from Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Friday October 29 7:30-10:30pm   Hosted by Asher Baumrin of teen, rock band Opaque along with various New York personalities sharing the stage in cabaret performances with SKRIP Orkestra at South Oxford Space.  Special guest emcee Brandon Goodman!

Plus Kobi Skolnick of Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University who will reveal incidents of his journey from violence to peace activism.  Plus an excerpt of Dispatches from (A)mended America, Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr. and Brandt Adams' stunning investigation of Obama and race in America, and a selection from ALATetc’s work on Red Tent Fabrik exploring the common roots and rituals of the three Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, now in development in the lab.    

Friday October 29 7:30-10:30pm    Tickets $12

RSVP & to purchase tickets
call:      718-773-6803
write:   tickets@ALATetc.com

                

Saturday October 30th  8pm-11pm         
Halloween Eve Fun(d)-Raiser Party
with  star of stage and screen
HAZELLE GOODMAN along with
SKRIP Orkestra
The finale is a night of riotous fun on Saturday October 30th, when the unstoppable comedienne Hazelle Goodman sends SKRIP off with laughter. 

Come dressed in costume
and you may win a prize
at our fun(d)-raising reception.

Refreshments courtesy of
celebrity chef Cheryl Smith.

Saturday October 30th. 8pm-11pm  Tickets $20

South Oxford Space
@ 138 South Oxford Street
(between Atlantic Avenue
and Fulton Street),
Brooklyn, NY 11217.
A few blocks over from Brooklyn Academy of Music.

*Six women from all over the former Yugoslavia share stories of war-torn childhoods, drawing inspiration from a great variety of sources. From the darkness of McDonagh's Pillowman and Andersen tales, to the playful Tim Burton, folk song and uncompromising punk.

                                    

Our work would not be possible without the generous support of our family and friends:

Stefan & Judith Baumrin
Claude J. Arpels & Winsome Brown
Füsun Ateser 
Edel Cordova
Helen Piper Coxe
Mikah Daniels-Baumrin
Professor Lyell Davies
Ralph & Ulla Denzer
Fataah Dihaan
Berenecea Eanes
Etta Eccleston
Dr. John Foster
Brandon Goodman
Hazelle Goodman
Andre Gregory
Robert Glenn John Hall
Mike Halverson
Sarah Dey Hirshan
Jessie Katz
Tannis Kowalchuk & NACL
Eliza Ladd
Gabrielle Lansner
Brigitte Loftis
Marcos Louis
BeretteMacaulay
Shannon Mayers
Novella Nelson
Vivene Oliver-Taylor
Mary Olushoga
Pamela Sibble
Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr.
Kobi Skolnick
Cheryl Smith
Philippa Thompson
Sarth
  A Laboratory for Actor Training Experimental Theater Company is a collective of artists from diverse cultures who are engaged in theater that is steeped in the principles of ensemble-oriented performance.  ALATetc is a not-for- profit venture and as such our work would not be possible without the generous support of our donors like you.  ALATetc is a fiscally sponsored project of The Field, an arts service organization which is not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501 (c) (3) organizations serving the New York City performing arts community.  Contributions to ALATetc through The Field are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. For more information about The Field contact: The Field, 161 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY 10013, (212) 691-6969, fax: (212) 255-2053.
 
Any contribution that you make to our cause will be greatly appreciated and used for our benefit.
 
Payment options include:

Credit Card payments:
www.thefield.org   ALATetc /A Laboratory for Actor Training

Your tax deductable contributions can also be made by phone to The Field 212-691-6969 ext. 17

*Checks:
Payable to "The Field"
Earmark on the ckeck's memo line "for A Laboratory for Actor Training"

Mail to:
A Laboratory for Actor Training
1561 Union Street (#4)
Brooklyn, New York 11213

We are  also seeking volunteers
and gratefully accept inkind contributions.


Write us at info@ALATetc.org or Call us at 718-773-6803

Asher Baumrin ٠ Seth Baumrin ٠ Soraya Broukhim ٠ Winsome Brown ٠ Aneesah Dambreville ٠Darci Fulcher ٠ Kimberly Guzowski ٠ Omotayo Jolasho ٠ Eliza Ladd ٠ Justin Lynch ٠ Berette Macaulay ٠ Ralph Denzer ٠ Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer ٠Audrey Pernell ٠ Anna Podolak ٠ Neil David Seibel ٠ Sarah Simmons ٠ Joann Maria Yarrow ٠ Vernice P. Miller.

ALATetc is a recipient of The Field's Emerging Artist Residency space grant at The FAR Space which is made possible by the Lambent Foundation Fund of the Tides Foundation. http:// www.thefield.org

Thanks for your continued support.

Vernice P. Miller
Founding Artistic Director
Seth Baumrin
Literary Manager
A LABORATORY FOR ACTOR TRAINING Experimental Theater Company      

From Slovenia Skrip Orkestra October 22nd-30th Here to Screech for youth all over the world!
October 23rd - 26th PRIMITIVE VOICE WORKSHOP with Jean-René Toussaint
Join our ongoing efforts to keep awareness on the rebuilding of Haiti.

Octoberfest - ALATetc Events Newsletter

Dear Theater Lovers,

Fall has arrived and with it friends from across the pond.   Despite a sluggish economy we at ALATetc are forging ahead but we need your help to realize our ambitions.

Please join us this month in inaugurating the Institute for Crimes against Culture, an organization devoted to cross cultural awareness and to producing international encounters for theater groups.  ICAC is the brain child of our literary director, Dr. Seth Baumrin and is being launched by the US premiere of Slovenia's GLEJ Theatre's SKRIP Orkestra (SCREECH Orchestra) hosted by ALATetc and in concert with the Art and Justice Series at John Jay College's Gerald W. Lynch Theatre.
    SKRIP Orkestra is a collective of women who were children during the wars in former Yugoslavia who went on to become successful advocates for justice and social services for the youth.  In their performance, stories of lost childhoods and survival in the aftermath of the wars of the 1990s, in which neighbor was pitted against neighbor during a period of ethnic cleansing, are told through powerful songs and visual imagery-relevant while playful. 

Also this month Actor, Director, and Master Voice Teacher Jean-René Toussaint of Stemwerk in the Netherlands, returns to New York City, offering the Primitive Voice Workshop, private sessions and a rare opportunity to audition and work with him.  Jean-René's unique voice work is the result of twenty five years of research and development and is informed by his work with deaf adults and children.  You do not need to be a performer to benefit from this work.  

As you can see we are up to big things but we need your help to achieve our goals.  We need you to attend, we need you to volunteer, we need you to help us spread the word, and we are also in need of your financial help.  Your gift of $5 or more is fully tax deductable through our fiscal sponsor The Field. 

Won't you please support our great adventure? 

Vernice P. Miller
Founding-Artistic Director

Please take a moment and scroll down for more specific information on all our October activities.

                                          

       

    Announcing The Institute for Crimes against Culture

                                                                                    

 SKRIP @

John Jay College's  Gerald W. Lynch Theater  

at 899 10th, Avenue (map)

on
Friday October 22 at 7:30pm 

Saturday October 23 at 7:30pm and 9:30pm 

Sunday October 24 at 7:30pm

   

SKRIP in Brooklyn
A.R.T./NY South Oxford Space
138 South Oxford Street (map)
(Between Atlantic Ave and Fulton Street)
on
Friday October 29
7:30pm and Saturday, October 30 at 8:00pm

New York welcomes SKRIP ORKESTRA 
(SCREECH Orchestra)

Inaugerating The Institute for Crimes against Culture with the U.S. premiere of Slovenia's SKRIP Orkestra, where pop rock meets kitsch-noir meets performance art.  Six women from all over the former Yugoslavia share stories of war-torn childhoods, drawing inspiration from folk songs, fairy tales, and uncompromising punk music.

First on Friday, October 22 at 7:30pm; Saturday, October 23 at 7:30pm and 9:30pm; and Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 7:30pm as part of the Art of Justice Series at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 899 Tenth Avenue, NYC. Tickets are $20 (free for CUNY students with valid ID) and may be purchased by calling Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 or visiting www.ticketcentral.com.

Next it's SKRIP Unplugged in Brooklyn! when on October 29th, 7:30pm at A.R.T./NY's South Oxford Space SKRIP Orkestra barters in cabaret performance with various New York personalities.

Finally it all culminates in a night of riotous  fun on Halloween Eve, Saturday October 30th at 8:00pm when star of stage and screen comedienne Hazelle Goodman takes the stage. 

Scroll down for even more information on SKRIP Unplugged in Brooklyn.

SKRIP UNPLUGGED with Comedienne HAZELLE GOODMAN

                                                                                            

Friday
October 29th
with
Soraya Broukhim Winsome Brown
Aneesah Dambreville
Darci Fulcher Kimberly Guzowski
Eliza Ladd and
Anna Podolak
of ALATetc's Red Tent Fabrik

Saturday October 30th
Costume
Fun(d)-Raising Party

   

SKRIP Unplugged!
Cabaret Performances in Brooklyn             

 SKRIP Orkestra enjoys two nights in Brooklyn hosted by Asher Baumrin singer/songwriter for the teen, rock band Opaque who will perform on both nights.

October 29th at 7:30pm various New York personalities share the stage in cabaret performances with SKRIP Orkestra at South Oxford Space.

Including Kobi Skolnick of Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University who will reveal incidents of his journey from violence to peace activism.  Plus an exerpt of Dispatches from (A)mended America, Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr. and Brandt Adams' stunning investigation of Obama and race in America, and a selection from our work on Red Tent Fabrik exploring the common roots and rituals of the three Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, now in development in the lab.    

Special guest emcee Brandon Goodman.
Friday October 29 7:30-10:30pm    Tickets $12



Halloween Eve
Fun(d)-Raiser Party
with  HAZELLE 
Hazelle Goodman

It all culminates in a night of rioutous fun on Saturday October 30th, when star of stage and screen, the unstoppable comedienne Hazelle Goodman sends SKRIP off with laughter.. 

Come dressed in costume! and join our
fun(d)-raising reception with refreshments courtesy of celebrity chef Cheryl Smith.  
              
                                   



Saturday October 30th.
8pm-11pm          Tickets $20

South Oxford Space @ 138 South Oxford Street (between Atlantic Avenue and Fulton Street), Brooklyn, NY 11217.  
(A few blocks over from Brooklyn Academy of Music.)
**Map Link

RSVP  to purchase tickets
call:      718-773-6803
write:   tickets@ALATetc.com

    Jean-René  Toussaint returns to the US

                                                                                    

 "A wonderful and enlightening workshop for anybody who is interested in voice. I recommend it heartily." (Kristin Linklater, Head of Voice and Theater at Columbia University)
   

PRIMITIVE VOICE
with Jean-René Toussaint





WORKSHOP  October 23rd and 24th  
During this workshop, we seek out and develop the roots of our social voices, thus becoming more mindful of our bodies' impulses. Exercises include: inhaled sounds, open throat vocalizing, stimulation of the diaphragm, communal manipulation of one's body, surrendering to the group and to one's own impulses.   JOYCE Studios $200

PRIVATE TRAINING October 25th
Jean-René Toussaint will also be offering private 90-120 minute "Primitive Voice" sessions on Friday Starting 5pm. Prices are $150 for a single student and $175 for a pair of students.  SITI STUDIOS

AUDITION EX(traordinary) VOICES Screaming Choir  October 26th  
EX VOICES is resolutely new, but full of old, traditional, ancient forms of voicing, lamenting, harmonics, multi-sounds, breathing-in voices, throat singing.   All are encouraged to audition for this incredibly innovative endeavor.  SITI STUDIOS Starting 5pm
 
To Register
fataah@gmail.com

  Here's how you can help! 

 MAKE a DONATION!

 Any contribution that you make to our cause will be accepted and greatly appreciated.

Payment options include:

Credit Card payments:
www.thefield.org   - ALATetc /A Laboratory for Actor Training

Your tax deductable contributions can also be made by phone to The Field 212-691-6969 ext. 17

*Checks:
Payable to "The Field"
Earmark on the ckeck's memo line "for A Laboratory for Actor Training"

Mail to:
A Laboratory for Actor Training
1561 Union Street (#4)
Brooklyn, New York 11213
  
GET INVOLVED!

We are  also seeking volunteers and gratefully accept inkind contributions.

Write us at info@ALATetc.org or Call us at 718-773-6803

                                            

Seth Baumrin ٠ Soraya Broukhim ٠ Winsome Brown ٠ Aneesah Dambreville ٠Darci Fulcher ٠ Kimberly Guzowski ٠  Eliza Ladd ٠ Berette Macaulay ٠ Ralph Denzer ٠ Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer ٠Anna Podolak ٠ Joann Maria Yarrow ٠ Vernice P. Miller
        
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ALATetc Memorial Service for Torgeir Wethal

Torgeir Wethal (1947 - 2010)

Dear Friends,

The funeral for Torgeir Wethal was recently held in Denmark.  Eugenio reported that "We bade farewell to him, surrounded by 200 friends who had come from all over Europe, and they sang, quoted poems, played music and delivered speeches."

We who were too far away to be a part of that sendoff will come together for a memorial service to mark the passing of and to pay respect to the life of our dear friend and colleague.  It will be held:
Monday, August 2nd
7pm-9pm
at La MaMa Experimental Theatre
74A East 4th St.http://odinteatret.dk.web110.curanetserver.dk/
New York, NY 10003

In the interest of time and space please RSVP to me at this email address vernicem@hotmail.com and let me know if you would like to participate with song, poem, speech etc.

Jean-Rene Toussaint Voice Workshop - APRIL/MAY 2010

If you haven't already done so here is a last minute reminder about the Jean-Rene Toussaint voice workshop. 

I've included lots of information below but in a nut shell Jean-Rene's work is not centered on making pretty voices nor is it a workshop just for singers.  It is instead a deeply personal work on accessing more of yourself, in a very short amount of time, through vocal work.   I recommended this for teachers and performers alike.

Also, even if you don't have the time or the money to participate in the workshop this time around, do come to the lecture demo on Thursday to meet Jean-Rene and learn first hand about his work.

Lecture-Demo:  "The Moveable Voice, The Moveable Self"
Thursday April 29th, 7pm-9pmTix now $10 at the door (free for workshop participants)
SITI Company, 520 8th Avenue, Suite 310, between 36th and 37th

Workshop:  THE PRIMITIVE VOICE
Friday April 30th - Saturday May 1st, 10am-5pm
SITI Company, 520 8th Avenue, Suite 310, between 36th and 37th

Workshop:  VOICE AS A TOOL FOR ACTING
Sunday May 2nd - Tuesday May 4th, 10am-5pm
SITI Company, 520 8th Avenue, Suite 310, between 36th and 37th

* PLEASE arrive 10-15 minutes early for the first workshop day (Friday April 30th) to check in with me about payments, receipts, private sessions etc.  We will break for lunch in the afternoon.  There are plenty of eateries nearby, though you may want to pack something to save time. 

* Wear comfortable clothes, be prepared to move & to work without shoes/socks.  I recommend bringing some bottled water, a journal/writing utensil, and a towel/light blanket/yoga mat (often Jean-René works with exercises involving lying on the floor, sometimes face down). 

PRIVATE SESSIONS
Wed May 5th-Thursday May 6th
90 minutes to two hours (Ask me about the schedule)
Discounted rates for workshop participants: Individual Session $125 / Couple's Session $165
Simple Studios, 134 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor between 6th and 7th
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact Audrey (email only before April 28th).

ACTION for HAITI: Monday Jan 18th, 2010, Cafe Petisco, NYC

CALL TO ACTION
RELIEF CAMPAIGN FOR HAITI
Monday
January 18th, 2010
6pm-9pm
  Cafe Petisco
189 East Broadway and Jefferson
(212) 389-0366
New York City  

Our Dear Friends,

Please come together in support of Haiti at Cafe Petisco, 189 East Broadway on Monday January 18th 6-9pm.

The assessments are just beginning; already we know that the 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince Tuesday is a catastrophe of major proportions.

While it's heartening to see the swift response from our President and the international community overall, we should not take the relief effort for granted nor leave it up to others to fix it.

The earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12 is simply the latest in a long line of devastations that has been visited on the Haitian people.  Many survivors require immediate assistance with shelter, food, water, and medical attention. To this end we are committing our efforts to an ongoing campaign to raise funds for the Haitian crisis.

© Stefano Zannini /MSF

The most immediate, pressing need is medical aid, therefore we are coming together this Monday to raise funds for Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) an international, independent, medical humanitarian organization that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more than 70 countries. 

MSF has been setting up emergency medical aid missions around the world since 1971. On Tuesday MSF staff immediately started treating hundreds of people injured and have been setting up clinics in tents to replace their own damaged medical facilities.

Daily we are seeing the heartbreaking images of the devastation.  Let us not feel helpless; let us act now by coming together to send desperately needed funds to the Haitian people.

Monday's event at Cafe Petisco will be hosted by Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr. and will include cocktails, appetizers, music by DJ Sunshine and a silent auction of donated art works by various New York City artists plus special guest appearances including comedienne Hazelle Goodman.  We ask that you dig deeply into your hearts for a suggested donation of at least $25.00 per person.  100% of all donations will go to Doctors Without Borders.

RSVP:     (347) 526-8782  

 
We look forward to your support.

Sincerely,
Kobi Skolnick and Vernice P. Miller  



About ALATetc ●

A LABORATORY FOR ACTOR TRAINING EXPERIMENTAL THEATER COMPANY is an ensemble of artists engaged in the creation and production of socially conscious performance projects and community building events. As pedagogues we are committed to cultivation dynamic, sophisticated, and virtuosic artists through training that supports both creative development and personal growth. 

Please visit our website www.ALATetc.org, our blog alatetc.blogspot.com, and our Facebook page for up-to-date information on all of our happenings. 
 
Phone (347) 526-8782
 
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PRESENTING TRACES IN THE SNOW with Roberta Carreri on Jan 9th!

PRESENTING

ODIN TEATRET'S

ROBERTA CARRERI

In Her Acclaimed

PERFORMANCE DEMONSTRATION

TRACES IN THE SNOW

For one performance only!

A unique encounter with one of the world's greatest theatre artists.

Saturday
January 9th, 2010

3-6pm

La MaMa E.T.C.

1st Floor Theatre

74A East 4th Street

between
2nd Avenue & The Bowery

Tickets $25

photo by Tony D'Urso

Please join us for the

official ribbon cutting for ALATetc.

The Board and Members of ALATetc
Are pleased to invite you to join in
Support and celebration of our official launch

At a 2-part event on January 9th, 2010.

Part 1: Traces in The Snow
The presentation of Maestra Roberta Carreri's performance demonstration 3pm at La MaMa E.T.C. in New York City. $25

Traces in The Snow is Roberta Carreri's dialogue about the secrets which precede and follow the building of a character and the creation of a performance.

Part 2: Champagne Launch
Drinks & hors d'oeuvres at the Tribeca home of

Winsome Brown and Claude Arpels. $25 (fully tax deductable)

A champagne reception following the performance of Traces in The Snow. A special evening in one of the premiere lofts in New York City. In the company of Maestra Carreri and the ALATetc ensemble.

This reception will also serve as the official ribbon cutting for ALATetc.

Tickets to both events $45 individual / $85 per pair

To RSVP and secure your space,

Please contact Vernice Miller at 347-526-8782 or 

 ticket@ALATetc.com

ALATetc Company & Board

Seth Baumrin ٠ Soraya Broukhim ٠ Winsome Brown ٠ Sarah Simmons ٠Aneesah Dambreville ٠ Fataah Dihaan ٠ Darci Fulcher ٠ Kimberly Guzowski ٠ Omotayo Jolaosho ٠ Brigitte B. Loftis ٠ Berette Macaulay ٠Ralph Denzer ٠ Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer ٠ Audrey Pernell ٠ Anna Podolak ٠ Katya Schapiro ٠ Neil David Seibel ٠ Joann Maria Yarrow ٠ Füsun Ateşer ٠ Gustave Johnson ٠ Cheryl Smith ٠ Gayle Quarles John ٠ Vernice P. Miller

HAPPENING TONIGHT!! - Red Tent Fabrik & Nightly Labs

Happy New Year!

Please join us tonight

and

start the New Year with Presence!

TONIGHT!

Sunday, January 3rd 7pm-8:30pm

We are throwing open the doors to our rehearsal/training session. You are specially invited into this very early stage as we work on creating a new performance piece and an ALATetc aesthetic.

Red Tent Fabrik marks the first phase of development for a full production entitled Children of Abraham, ALATetc's dramatic response to Anita Diamant's The Red Tent, which tells the biblical story of the wives and only daughter of Jacob.

We aim to explore the common roots and rituals of the three Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity) by weaving together different artistic and musical elements from these traditions. The project will be developed largely through ensemble-based physical and vocal improvisation, guided playwrighting, and will feature dynamic movement, polyphonic vocal music, and nonlinear storytelling.

BAX
Brooklyn Arts Exchange

421 5th Ave
at Eighth Street
Park Slope B'klyn

NY 11215-3315

Suggested Donation $15
718-773-6803
tickets@ALATetc.com

Photo Vernice Miller as Antigone © Metropole Theater, Denmark

And don't forget the Nightly Labs are only here for this week!

NIGHTLY LABS

THIS WEEK

Seminars from ALATetc company

Monday 4th through Friday 8th

January 2010 7:30-10pm

Monday January 4th

Vernice P. Miller and Seth Baumrin

INITIATION OF A FLOATING ISLAND

In the 1980s, Five Moon Theater founders and artistic directors Seth Baumrin and Vernice P. Miller facilitated three colloquia with Jerzy Grotowski and one colloquium with Eugenio Barba in New York City. For ten years Ms. Miller was the principal actor with Five Moon Theater under Mr. Baumrin's direction. In this nightly lab, the pair is reunited to present Five Moon's history and discuss the director-solo performer relationship.

Tuesday January 5th

Joann Maria Yarrow

CROSSING CULTURES

While training with Roberta Carreri at Odin Teatret, Joann Maria Yarrow met Vernice P. Miller, and the seeds for ALATetc were planted in the winter of 1995 at the Greenwich Street Theatre in New York City. We searched to make the training our own, incorporating the different disciplines, cultures, and performance styles of the artists with whom we collaborated. During this journey a connection was made with Neil David Seibel in California, and ALATetc continued to grow and tour to other countries with a diverse group of theater performers. Now the Director of Prometeo Theatre, a Spanish-language theatre conservatory, Joann will discuss and demonstrate exercises that are part of ALATetc's core training. She will work with actors from different cultural backgrounds and disciplines, and reveal how we use these techniques to create performance material.

Wednesday January 6th

Neil David Seibel

INTEGRATING THE ACTOR

Neil David Seibel has lived among a wide variety of performance disciplines: theatre, dance, cabaret and musical theatre, film and television, movement theatre and solo performance. In 1997 he met a girl named Joann and became intimately involved with the fledgling ALATetc, finding a home for his self-described "everything goes approach to the art of storytelling". Moving from the premise that an actor has three resources to train - the mind, the body, and the voice - this evening's lab will reflect ND's current work of connecting the life of the storyteller to the spirit of the character, thus Integrating The Actor.

Thursday January 7th

Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer

EMO LAB

Professor Neuerburg-Denzer studied movement and acting in Köln and Berlin, Germany. In Berlin she co-founded and ran Theater Zerbrochene Fenster for a number of years before moving to New York City in 1990. It was here that she met Vernice P. Miller in a Roberta Carreri workshop. Professor Neuerburg-Denzer is interested in the effects of war and other situations of extreme pressure on the human being, and how these states have been and can be expressed on stage. She is also promoting the study of emotions in theater and brings to us her emotion research from her ongoing Emo Lab at Concordia University in Montreal.

Friday January 8th

Audrey Pernell

VISHUDDHA & THE SOUND BODY

Ms. Pernell studied theatre at Swarthmore College with Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer and Vernice P. Miller. Presently, she is a graduate student designing her own curriculum in voice with contemporary international masters of voice and theatre through Antioch University McGregor. In this vocal performance laboratory, Ms. Pernell will draw on approaches derived from Roy Hart, Jean-Rene Toussaint, and Jerzy Grotowski, and explore these through the lens of the Chakra System and other Yogic teachings. "No matter our genre, as performers we must access the totality of our instruments - body, mind, and presence in our developmental and creative work. The voice is the bridge through which we can connect these seemingly disparate aspects of our beings, and the lens through which we may begin truly to see ourselves and reveal ourselves to an audience". ~AP

Plus rare film presentations from Odin's archive and The Carpetbag Brigade Physical Theater Company

Photo ALATetc Sacred Actor Workshop © Teatro Prometeo 2009

All labs held at

A.R.T./NY South Oxford Space
138 South Oxford Street Fort Greene B'klyn,

NY 11217

(Between Atlantic Ave and Fulton Street)

SUGGESTED DONATIONS

$25 per evening

$100 all five labs

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718-773-6803

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