souped up sundays
Stone Soup proudly offers up our second season of Souped Up Sundays master class workshops. With this series, we hope to inspire artists with exposure to a variety of artistic approaches, providing the group with a common vocabulary and set of tools to use in creating future projects. We also use these workshops as a venue to give established artists a chance to teach their area of expertise and to meet new collaborators for future Stone Soup workshops, readings and productions.
To RSVP for a workshop, or to receive more information on the series, email Maria Schirmer, Education Director.
Up Next:
The Layered Performance
November 11, 2007
with Jyana Gregory and Andrew Grusetskie
Epiphany Rehearsal Space - 154 Christopher Street, NYC
$10 subsidized artist rate - Limit 15 participants
For Information on the other workshops this season, please visit our Souped Up Sundays page.
What have we learned so far? Here are the descriptions of the workshops we hosted during Season Six:
Political Theatre, Past and Present
January 8, 2007
with Castillo Theatre
With fellow political theatre company, Castillo Theatre, we hosted a discussion and reading, exploring the history and current climate of socially relevant theatre. The discussion, led by dramaturg and Castillo founder Dan Friedman, focused on the history and current state of political theatre in the United States. Afterwards, Stone Soup presented the first public reading of our The Maguffin.
Puppetering
January 6 & 7, 2007 - two-day intensive!
with imnotlost
In the puppeteering course, we delved into the basics of puppet movement: eyes, head, breathing, beats, and specificity. We moved on from there to address more complex issues like intention, acceleration, rhythm, direction, and history. We practiced with simple, 3 person (bunraku-like), and full body puppets, enabling us to look at specific bunraku issues: who leads, weight/gravity, hoods, and choreography of bodies, as well as specifics of full body puppets: extension of body and sight. We also used the tools of Laban effort analysis and Margolis Method to practice controlling the movement of energy in our bodies and our puppets.
One Thought One Action
December 17, 2006
with instructor Gia Forakis
One Thought One Action can be applied to any script style -- with or without text. The approach identifies smaller increments of thought, as smaller moments of action. If you consider action as a physical expression of thought then you automatically engage the actor physically in actions related to the thought. In other words, breaking thoughts into action and action into gesture. Apart from offering a method for developing an original physical vocabulary, in a very basic way it offers more specificity moment-to-moment, reduced generalized emotion, more physical connection with the text and scene partner, and often a way to get the actor out of their head and into their character directly connected to their objective.
Contact Improvisation
December 3, 2006
with instructor Paul Langland
Created in 1972 by Steve Paxton, Contact Improvisation has spread world-wide as a popular mostly duet improvisational dance form. This course is based on the classic approach to contact, which includes individual and duet warm-up exercises, and duet techniques such as finding a flow in moving together, moving in and out of the floor, weight taking, and partnering skills.
Viewpoints
November 19, 2006
with instructor Kim Weild
Through this introductory experiential dialogue, participants began to awaken and listen deeply to their instruments in time and space, developed the courage to be fearless, and discovered the joy of true ensemble playing.
Body & Song
November 12, 2006
with instructor Ben Spatz and Urban Research Theatre
This workshop was a rare opportunity to explore the organic intersection of song and movement. Mr. Spatz led a rigorous session, introducing a range of dynamic and meditative structures designed to free the creative and expressive possibilities of the actor's body and voice.
