Theater
Performance Workshop Series
Performance Discoveries: Workshop Series with Professional Artists
Fall Semester 2012
Play and Playfulness – The Key to Creation
Jon Ferguson
Thursday September 27, 2012
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Tjornhom-Nelson Theater in Foss Center
Theater Director and Theater Maker Jon Ferguson will lead students through a series of practical and playful exercises to reveal and activate their true creative and spontaneous nature. The workshop will instruct students in ways of applying this tool to the art of play creation and character development via clowning, playing, comic timing, and games.
www.jonfergusontheater.com
www.theatreforever.com
Contact Darcey Engen at engen@augsburg.edu or 612-330-1549 for more information.
Readings in The House of Alba
Thursday October 4, 2012
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Foss Film Studio
and
Tuesday October 9, 2012
1:30 – 3:00pm
Tjornhom-Nelson Theater in Foss Center
The Department of Theater and Associate Professor Michael Kidd of Languages and Cross-Cultural Studies have undertaken a collaboration of translation and production. These readings will be the first from Professor Kidd’s new translation of The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca. The Theater Department will produce this translation during the 2013-2014 season. Come help put voice to this exciting new translation.
Contact Darcey Engen at engen@augsburg.edu or 612-330-1549 for more information.
Mask Technique for the Theater Performer
Dario Tangelson
Thursday October 18, 2012
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
and
Thursday October 25, 2012
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
The Ailene Cole Green Room
Dario Tangelson will lead students through a series of exercises that use technique from the Neutral and Expressive mask. This workshop will show how the technique can be adapted to make it more accessible and applicable for present day performers, by working based on the technique without the use of the mask itself. By extracting specific structural elements and a concrete way of approaching the work, students will be offered a new starting point for creating their characters.
Contact Darcey Engen at engen@augsburg.edu or 612-330-1549 for more information.
Spring Semester 2013
ACTING OUT
January 28-January 31, 2013
6:30-8:30 in the Green Room
A four-session workshop in which students will refine and perform their own spoken word and poetry pieces as theater performance.
Facilitated by Rick Shiomi.
This workshop is co-sponsored by Mu Performing Arts and Augsburg Theater.
Contact Michael Burden at burden@augsburg.edu or 612-330-1747 for more information.
Physical Theatre Workshop
With Barbra Berovitz
February 19th 6:30-8:30 in the Green Room
February 21st 6:30-8:30 in the Film Studio
Come play for two evenings with Barbra Berlovitz. Find out what being physical in the theater is all about. If you already know, come and deepen your experience. Through improvisation, immediate creation, you will explore how the whole body tells a story through its total engagement and presence. Become actor/authors using your muscle of imagination to create short pieces. Objects and masks will be used to help free the actor from the worry of “what to do” on the stage and create a sense of the joy of playing. Come and enjoy the risk of discovery.
Contact Darcey Engen at engen@augsburg.edu or 612-330-1549 for more information.
MY NAKED SELF Workshop
Created by 20% Theatre Company
Tuesday February 26, 2013
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Tjornhom-Nelson Theater in Foss Center
MY NAKED SELF is an introductory workshop for anyone interested in exploring their gender identity, sexuality, body/self-image, and/or awareness through guided writing exercises, improvisational movement, and encouraged sharing or performance. This workshop is a challenging, inspirational, and empowering examination of who others think we are, who we think we are, and the not-so-simple truth: who we are. No theatre or writing experience necessary! Please bring water and dress comfortably for movement. Feel free to bring a journal or notebook if desired, but we will provide paper and materials for the writing exercises.
THE NAKED I: WIDE OPEN
Created by 20% Theatre Company
Thursday February 28, 2013
7:00 p.m.
Tjornhom-Nelson Theater in Foss Center
Inspired by 20% Theatre Company’s ground-breaking, sold-out 2009 production of The Naked I: Monologues From Beyond The Binary by transgender playwright, Tobias K. Davis, The Naked I: Wide Open was created by the company and originally produced in February 2012 to sold-out houses. The Naked I: Wide Open is made up of monologues and short scenes, filled with fresh, sexy, humorous, gut-punching, and unbelievably honest and true stories by transgender/gender non-conforming individuals and allies, exploring gender identity far beyond the land of “male” and “female.” The performance will be followed with a post-show discussion with the artists.
Contact Sarah Myers at myerss@augsburg.edu or 612-330-1718 for more information.
HELIOPAUSE
a workshop in collaborative performance-making
Rachel Jendrzejewski
Tuesday March 5, 2013
6:00-9:00pm
Sateren Auditorium, Music Hall
This 3-hour session investigates expansive definitions of playwriting and strategies for creating performance work with different kinds of collaborators. Writing exercises, movement work, and interdisciplinary experiments will fuel investigations of narrative structure, meaning-making, concepts of time and space, sensory experience, and more. Influences on our work will include Gertrude Stein, Jerzy Grotowski, John Cage, Trisha Brown, and Ann Hamilton, among others. Participants will emerge with new tools, relationships, and material that could infuse existing work or spark a new project. Open to students of all disciplines and experience levels.
Contact Sarah Myers at myerss@augsburg.edu or 612-330-1718 for more information.
Invisible Art Workshop
Invisible Art is a vibrant program at Ka Joog. As we know; ”Art. Changes. Everything.” It is used as a means to create political and social change around the world. Invisible Art creates an intimate space for the community here in the twin cities to motivate, empower; elevate each other through the art of all elements (Poetry, Music, Theater, Storytelling, Painting, Sculptures and much more). It will also consist of poets and writers that will read, sing, perform and respond to each other’s creative pieces. It is also to criticize each other constructively, and help those who want to be heard move the world. Anything we are willing to share, as long as we let it pour out of our hearts and souls in regards to the world. Eventually there will be a publication of all the pieces created every year. Let’s not only live to exist, but live to love LOUD!
About Abdi Phenomenal:
Abdi Phenomenal is a spoken word artist from Somalia, teaching artist, actor and a community activist. He is a student and currently studying Clinical Psychology. Abdi is dedicated to impacting literacy and youth leadership through the art of spoken word to restore peace back in Somalia.
Workshop Dates:
The workshops are from 7:00pm-9:00pm in The Ailene Cole Green Room in Foss at Augsburg College
Tuesday, March 5th: “Paradise of Strangers Workshop”
Wednesday, March 6th: “Image Interpretation Workshop”
Thursday, March 7th: “In the Moment Workshop”
Public Showing:
Friday, March 8th: Workshop Showing 7pm
Location to be Determined
Augsburg College
Contact Michael Burden at burden@augsburg.edu or 612-330-1747 for more information.