PLASTICENE 13th ANNUAL PHYSICAL THEATER INTENSIVE: JUNE 13—18, 2009
When:
- Saturday 6/13 1-5 pm
- Sunday 6/14 1-5 pm
- Monday 6/15 6:15-10:00 pm
- Tuesday 6/16 6:15-10:00 pm
- Wednesday 6/17 6:15-10:00 pm
- Thursday 6/18 6:15-10:00 pm
Where: UIC Studio Theater, 1044 W. Harrison Street, Chicago
Fee: $195 early registration (before 5/26) $225 thereafter. Send a check and contact info to Plasticene, 1849 N. Damen Avenue #1, Chicago IL 60647
What: 24 hours of physical theater training, improvisation, and creation for anyone who wants to move, innovate, develop, and play…
Plasticene offers one of the best and most challenging workshops of the summer! Plasticene’s Intensive is a great way to get physical with one of Chicago’s most critically-acclaimed experimental theater companies. This exciting and challenging workshop emphasizes acting and theater founded in the body, space, and objects. Plasticene’s work has gained city-wide recognition as one of the most innovative opportunities to gain heightened awareness of themselves and the use of space and the body in theater.
The Intensive is a perfect introduction to the tools and process used to develop Plasticene performances. The process is a mixture of diverse techniques and experiments from many traditions including yoga, corporal mime, Boal, Grotowski, Zaporah, object work, and contact improvisation. This session builds links from physical control to spatial awareness to contact improvisation to object encounters and culminates in group creation. Each day includes a warm-up, technique and improvisation. Live, improvised music accompanies three classes.
No previous training is necessary—degree of difficulty can be determined by each participant. Various company members teach throughout. You may register if you have to miss one session, but no more than one.