Studio Experiments with Rebecca Geddes

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Alexander Technique

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Alexander Technique with Gabriella Minnes Brandes PhD.

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Postdramatic

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Postdramatic Theatre by Hans-Theis Lehmann, Trans. Karen Jürs-Munby, Routledge 2006.

Look who’s Looking!: Perspective and the Paradox of Postdramatic Subjectivity

MAAIKE BLEEKER (2004).
Theatre Research International, Issue 01, March 2004 pp 29-41

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=212355

A Look Back: 2008-2011

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We pursue our goal to provide educational opportunities by facilitating workshops with practitioners recognized for their achievements, artistic excellence and devotion to exploration and experimentation within their field.

In August of 2008 we hosted Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre in a week-long workshop called “Vancouver Stomp”. Artistic Director Simon Woods led participants in introductory classes featuring his company’s unique application of actor training derived from the works of Anne Bogart (The Viewpoints) and Tadashi Suzuki (The Suzuki Method of Actor Training). Participants included recent graduates of university programs, emerging professional artists and university instructors.

In July of 2009 a second workshop with Zen Zen Zo (Vancouver Stomp II) met with equal success. Many of the participants had returned from the previous year and a few new participants joined our community. The second week of this intensive consisted of devised theatre based on classic and traditional texts. Scenes from Hedda Gabler and Medea were re-imagined using compositional theatre techniques, shadow play and reflexive practice. Also in this year, Human Theatre assisted recent university grads to mount a production of Heiner Müller’s Hamletmaschine for the Universiity of the Fraser Valley One Act Festival.

In August of 2010 we hosted a workshop with renowned SITI Company from New York. This intensive attracted a strong following of previous participants as well as professional actors and educators from the lower mainland. The workshop focused on the deeper questions of artistic awareness and the presence of the performer in the context of the two complimentarty training methods pioneered in North America by SITI. The experience of working with the originators of the methodology was invaluable, especially after having had previous experience with similar training.