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

RSVP & to purchase tickets

718-773-6803

tickets@ALATetc.com

 

Activities for the New Season!

Happy Spring!

We here at ALATetc are bursting with new life and find ourselves at the beginning of all things; there is so much for us to do and so much for us to learn.

This Summer amongst various activities we will be conducting our Performer Training Workshop, led by artistic directors Vernice Miller and Audrey Pernell with core member Soraya Broukhim on select Sundays this summer, beginning June 14th. The Training will consist of a series of rigorous physical and vocal exercises, rooted in the work of The Odin Teatret, The Roy Hart Theatre, Stemwerk/The Primitive Voice, as well as the practice of Yoga; and an in depth analysis of Don Miguel Ruiz’s The Four Agreements & their practical application to our daily performance practice.

June 14th, 21st, 28th & July 12th, 19th, 26th from 11am-7pm / Location TBA
Fees: $400 paid in full by day one; otherwise $450, payment plans available

In January 2010, we will be hosting an intensive workshop with our mentor Roberta Carreri, world-renowned performer and master teacher of the Odin Teatret. The workshop will take place in conjunction with a presentation of Red Tent Fabrik – our original performance piece based on Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent, which tells the biblical story of the wives and only daughter of Jacob. In our piece, 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 and guided playwrighting, and will feature dynamic movement, polyphonic vocal music, and nonlinear storytelling.

The first phase of Red Tent Fabrik rehearsals for ALATetc core members & associate artists will begin in September, and will continue through January 2010. For outside artists, we are offering our exploratory summer training in lieu of a formal audition, with the intention of creating a space for us to get to know each other a bit better before we begin casting for the first phase of rehearsals this fall. We hope you will join us!

Bring comfortable clothing, some bottled water, a journal and writing utensils…. be prepared to move and to voice and to write! RSVP by Monday June 8th. Please direct all workshop questions to Vernice Miller.

Write us: vernice@alatetc.org Call us: 718-773-6803 Visit us: www.ALATetc.org

ALAT Scene Study Workshop with Vernice Miller

WORKING WITH TEXT: AN OPEN SERIES OF LABORATORY SESSIONS
with Vernice Miller

March 8th-May 24th 2009

Sundays 11am - 3pm @ Dance Theatre Etcetera
480 Van Brunt Street, Suite 203 Red Hook Brooklyn, NY 11231
(see map below)



Photography © SeBiArt

$350 for 8 Weeks ($325 if paid in advance of first session. Payment plans available)

In performance, the performer’s presence both physical and mental is distinct from that of daily life. The flow of energy which characterizes our daily behavior is excited and altered. Tapping into traditional and experimental theater techniques ALAT’s approach to naturalistic text begins with awakening the performer’s presence. The work is a fusion of Meisner, Stanislavski, Grotowski and Odin inspired actor trainings. The lab will offer scene study and monologue work and the structure of each session will incorporate an hour of physical and vocal warm-ups. Participants should be prepared to move by wearing comfortable clothing.

Vernice Miller is an international theatre artist who has spent the last two decades exploring the common threads between east and west actor training and its application to contemporary theater practices in America. She is an educator, writer, director and award winning actor who among others has studied with Ryszard Cieslack, Jacques Chwat, and Jerzy Grotowski of the Polish Laboratory Theater. Ms. Miller has been most influenced by her work with Roberta Carreri of the Odin Teatret in Denmark, and with Maggie Flannigan for Meisner technique in New York City. She currently teaches at Rutgers University and also for Epic Theatre Ensemble at Bard High School Early College. In 1995 Ms. Miller founded ALAT with Joann Maria Yarrow as an opportunity to explore their ideas on actor training.

For further information go to our website at www.alatetc.org and see the blog page
Or
contact Soraya Broukhim (917) 622-6798 sorayabnyc@gmail.com



In lieu of auditions participants will be eligible for ALATetc benefits such as: (a) $50 discount for the Voice Intensive Workshop with French artist Jean-René Toussaint, founder and director of Stemwerk International Center for the Voice in Rotterdam (the Netherlands) March 28th and 29th (b) inclusion in the January 2010 Master Workshop with Roberta Carreri of the Odin Teatret, Denmark (c) consideration to be cast in the upcoming ALAT production Red Tent Fabrik:The Children of Abraham (d) and to be considered for ALAT membership.

Laboratory is a magic word: it doesn’t mean anything precise, and one doesn’t know what lies behind it…It is a meeting place where [artists] from different countries experiment and take their first steps into the no man’s land of their professions. -Jerzy Grotowski



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