Community

Human Theatre is affiliated with; has collaborated with; has shared training with; has learned from; or has hung out with the following innovative and inspiring organizations.

WUK Werkstätten- u Kulturhaus [VIENNA, AT]
WUK is a place for presentations of visual art, photography, cinematography and media art, theatre, dance, music, literature, political events and interdisciplinary art mediation. About 130 resident groups, initiatives and individuals work in seven autonomous units: music, theatre/dance/movement, painting, workshops, children & young adults, social issues & initiatives, intercultural initiatives.

IUGTE [RIGA, LV]
This organization was established with the purpose of exploring the bridge between world theatre traditions and contemporary performing arts, developing international programmes, promoting multicultural dialogue, supporting the freedom of creative expression and tolerance through the acquaintance with the diversity of world traditions.

Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre [BRISBANE, AU]
Zen Zen Zo is a Brisbane-based physical theatre ensemble at the forefront of contemporary performance and training in Australia. Founded in 1992, the company has continually produced edgy, innovative theatre experiences, ranging from radical interpretation of classics to original new works, which have been showcased throughout Australia and Southeast Asia.

Little Dove Theatre Art [MELBOURNE, AU]
Little Dove Theatre Art is a physical theatre company that aims to create works that explore the physical manifestations of different kinds of love. LDTA debut show ’six women standing in front of a white wall’ is a Butoh-inspired performance installation that asks: What is the effect of touch or no touch on a human being? In ’six women standing in front of a white wall’, we explore the possibility that it is not necessarily a particular kind of love that we crave (ie. romantic love or erotic love), but a physiological need for human touch in order to survive.

The Actors’ Temple [LONDON, GB]
The Actors’ Temple continues the quest for absolute authenticity in acting which began with Konstantin Stanislavski and led to the Moscow Arts Theatre, which in turn influenced The Group Theatre in America in the 1930s. When The Group Theatre dispersed, Sanford Meisner continued this search and finally struck gold. Founded in 2002 and run by three actors, Mark Wakeling, Ellie Zeegen and Tom Radcliffe the training and production values of The Actors’ Temple make us the first acting company in the UK to truly carry on the development of these findings. The Actors’ Temple is the largest community of independent actors in the UK with a shared ethos and technique. Our aim is to become the leading influence in dramatic film making in this country and to revive the tradition of the repertory theatre whereby company members continuously rehearse and produce plays.

VICE Theatre International [EUROPE, THE AMERICAS, AUSTRALIA]
Our core ensemble members come from various professional backgrounds: directors, performers, dancers, designers, musicians, and playwrights. The ensemble was established in 2008, shortly after many of the core members met at the SITI intensive in Saratoga Springs, New York. Inspired by intercultural training practices and techniques for creating devised, interdisciplinary works, VICE members continue to meet, collaborate and invent.

SITI Company [NEW YORK, USA]
SITI Company is an ensemble-based theater company whose three ongoing components are the creation of new work, the training of young theater artists, and a commitment to international collaboration. SITI was founded in 1992 by Anne Bogart and Tadashi Suzuki to redefine and revitalize contemporary theater in the United States through an emphasis on international cultural exchange and collaboration. Originally envisioned as a summer institute in Saratoga Springs, New York, SITI has expanded to encompass a year-round program based in New York City with a summer season in Saratoga.

SITI Extended Ensemble [NEW YORK, USA]
SEE is SITI Company’s online social network. Artists who have trained or want to train with SITI exchange ideas, discussions and insights.

VASTA {NEW YORK, USA]
Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA), a 22-year-old non-profit organization serving the needs of voice and speech professionals all over the world and enriching the profession through numerous activities and initiatives. VASTA is the only organization in the United States dedicated to fostering excellence in the field of voice and speech training. VASTA’s current membership includes approximately 500 members from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Britain and Ireland, South Africa, Southeast Asia and Australia; embracing professors, performers, voice, speech, text and dialect coaches, speech/language pathologists, otolaryngologists, coaches in private practice, and acting, movement, singing specialists who are seeking to integrate disciplines, and others interested in the art and science of the human voice.

The Sanford Meisner Center [LOS ANGELES, USA]
The Sanford Meisner Center believes that the purpose of any acting school is to get you working professionally. To do something well you need to do it every day. With that in mind we’ve developed amazingly powerful programs guaranteed to get you results. You will absorb the building blocks of the strongest acting foundation from master teachers. Through a specific sequential training program creating an emotionally alive actor of depth, imagination and truth.

The Sanford Meisner Studio [LOS ANGELES, USA]
The Sanford Meisner Studio is the most dynamic inspiring acting school, led by Alex Taylor, the youngest and last teacher to have worked with Sanford Meisner. The great strength of Meisner Training is that it gives you a clear, step-by-step approach to the craft of acting that allows complete freedom to express and confidence in your abilities. In the Sanford Meisner Studio’s programs, we teach The Meisner Technique, period. It is not a blend of other techniques or “methods”, or an innovative new spin. It is a pure Meisner Training program.

Exit 22 Theatre Company [NORTH VANCOUVER, CA]
Exit 22 is the production company of the Capilano University Theatre Department. Named after “Exit 22″ on the Trans-Canada Highway, the department-run company produces 4 full-length shows per season; a main stage “straight” play, a main stage musical and two studio plays. In addition to this there are two full length in-class productions produced in the Arbutus “Black Box” Studio and numerous student-directed one-act plays, musical revue nights and scene study evenings that are open to the public for a $5 donation to the department.

The Only Animal [VANCOUVER, CA]
The Only Animal’s mission is to revitalize the role of theatre in society. It exists to create new works of theatre that are original, poetical, physical and far-reaching. The Only Animal thrives in theatrical habitats that range from intimate solo shows to large-scale site-specific extravaganzas. We are uniquely concerned with the human experience of boundless imagination inhabiting corporeal form. In ongoing actor training we work to master the animal body and connect the group mind.

Leaky Heaven Circus [VANCOUVER, CA]
Outrageous, provocative and endlessly inventive, Leaky Heaven Circus has earned the admiration of critics and audiences alike for its witty and stimulating meld of circus and theatre. The award-winning company employs popular traditions and forms, such as clown, circus arts, melodrama and cabaret, as a vehicle to explore cultural, social and regional issues.

Circus West [VANCOUVER, CA]
Avatar is the professional performing arm of CircusWest, Western Canada’s premier training organization in circus arts, founded in 1984. The Avatar Circus Project is a dynamic contemporary circus troupe from Vancouver, Canada. The troupe brings a seamless magical mix of acrobatics, dance, aerials, clowning, and theatrics in its exuberant multi-media circus spectacles.