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
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
RSVP & to purchase tickets
718-773-6803
RED TENT FABRIK
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.
