souped up sundays
This season, Stone Soup will once again host a series of workshops as a venue to meet new artists while strengthening the ensemble's artistic vocabulary. These workshops are also an opportunity for guest artists to hone their craft of teaching.
Workshops are open to the public at a subsidized rate of $10 per class. All workshops are on Sundays from 2-5PM at Epiphany Theatre, 154 Christopher Street, NYC
If you are interested in participating in a workshop, please email Maria Schirmer, Education Director
December 16, 2007
Composition with Kim Weild
The Composition workshop incorporates theories from great art forms such as music, painting, and architecture and applies them to the creation of work for the stage. It helps the artist locate within where their interest and passion live encouraging them to work from those impulses rather than from detachment. It helps to define and sharpen a personal point of view while continuing to work collaboratively. It is an expressive form of writing for the theatre that happens through the crafting of time and space, actively on your feet, in a theatrical space with bodies, light and sound.
Kim Weild is a director and teacher based in New York City. She has an extensive history of developing and performing movement based theatre pieces. Her interest in the intersection between theatre and dance first began while performing with The New York City Ballet and continued with 10 years of collaboration with Beatrice Lees, a pioneer in improvisational movement. She has been working with the Suzuki Method of Actor Training and the Viewpoints for over 18 years, continues to train extensively with SITI Co. and in 1998 was asked by Anne Bogart to begin teaching both trainings. Recently she directed the NY premiere of Charles Mee’s Fetes de la Nuit and her production of Uncle Vanya was an official selection of the Prague Quadrennial. Currently she is assisting Tina Landa on Charles Mee’s Iphigenia 2.0 at Signature Theatre. She was assistant director to Michael Blakemore on Deuce and will be working with him again this fall on Is He Dead? She is a member Women’s Project Directors Lab 2006-2008.
January 13, 2008
The Impulse Breath with Doug Paulson
The goal of The Impulse Breath is to deepen the actor's connection to his impulse by freeing the instrument of tension, allowing for a released, connected breath, and full resonant sound.
February 3, 2008
Stage Combat as Movement with Drew Leary
Stage Combat as Movement, is a unique workshop that uses stage combat as a way to explore the power of specificity and partnering in movement work. This high-energy class asks the participants to free their mind and body in order to create physical stories that are both vivid and effective. Specifically students will learn basic unarmed technique and then utilize that technique to investigate a “fight.” When emotional honesty is added to the equation the implications of what is learned can stretch beyond stage combat, into all aspects of theatrical storytelling.
Previous Souped Up Sundays this season:
September 30
Intro to Fitzmaurice Voicework with Joanna Battles
This intensive workshop introduced the participants to the work of Catherine Fitzmaurice, a pioneer in voice training for the Actor. Fitzmaurice Voicework is based on a combination of the ideas of Wilhelm Reich, and a series of poses adapted from yoga. It's a very physical approach to voice that directly confronts and dissipates tension in an effort to free your expressive, responsive voice. It is also a great way to literally shake up your acting, your creative impulses, and inspiration.
October 21
One River: Song Inside Song with Ben Spatz
This workshop was a rare opportunity to explore the organic intersection of song, movement and action. We will focus on how to search for the inner meaning of songs, and how to rediscover play and interaction within technical rigor.
November 11, 2007
The Layered Performance
with Jyana Gregory and Andrew Grusetskie
ACTIVE EYE Artistic Director Jyana S. Gregory and Associate Artist Andrew Grusetskie present a workshop on creating character using rhythm, movement, and gesture to shape deep, surprising, and fully realized performances. Participants will be led through the process of character creation from start to finish. The workshop will give performers a means of creating physical characters through and from themselves, either as applied to an existing text or in order to devise work of their own.
To see what else we've learned, read about last year's Souped Up Sundays.
