JAN 12 WORKSHOP

Destress and Decompress
Achieve Peak Performance with the Alexander
Technique

Relieve compression of your spine, counter gravity, and find yourself
feeling expansive, light and energetic. By utilizing basic principles
from the Alexander Technique, you will realign your body (and mind) in
order to release tension and improve freedom of movement. You will
learn simple techniques to move with grace, poise and confidence.
DESTRESS & DECOMPRESS with the Alexander Technique.

Saturday January 12th, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
at [via] Corpora 6575 Santa Monica Blvd.
(north side of street between Hudson and Seward)

Cost $20
Sign up today, Spaces are limited Call (310) 383-1796

Sharon Jakubecy is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher.

Holiday nights of Physical Laughter and Terror!

[via]Corpora is proud to Present

the First Los Angeles Physical Theatre Arts Festival
www.laptaf.com
a double bill of 3 of our favorite Los Angeles Physical Artists

Nov. 23 - Dec. 23
thur - sun
ArtWorks Theatre
6569 Santa Monica Blvd.
(NW Corner of Hudson)
90038

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOU SUPPORT! The festival was a strong step towards building a committed physical theater community (artists and audience) in Hollywood. The shows were an excellent sample of the breadth and depth of physical theater in America and we cannot thank the artists enough for their work, generosity, and feedback. Please support them by visiting their websites:
The Grand Guigonlers
Ten West
The Mitchell Evans Mime Project

destress and decompress

"DESTRESS & DECOMPRESS with the Alexander Technique"
Taught by Sharon Jakubecy

Are you stressed out? Feeling run down? Is your neck aching? Are your shoulders tense? Does your back hurt? This is a hectic time of year. Take some time to DESTRESS & DECOMPRESS with the Alexander Technique. If you want to relieve tension, rigidity, strain, and fatigue, this workshop is for you! You will learn simple techniques to move with grace, poise, and confidence. By utilizing basic principles from the Alexander Technique, you will realign your body (and mind) in order to release tension and improve freedom of movement. You'll relieve compression of your spine, counter gravity, and find yourself feeling expansive, light, and energetic. Enjoy this time of year without stress and tension.

DECEMBER 18th, 1PM - 3PM at [via] Corpora
6575 Santa Monica Blvd. between Seward and Hudson

Cost $20 Call 310 383 1796 to register. Spaces are limited. Sign up now! Sharon Jakubecy is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher. www.AlexanderTechniqueLA.com

Workshops in Alexander Techinque!

The October Workshop was exquisite and an excellent start to the weekend!
Look for Holiday de-stress Workshops coming next month!
Ongoing Group Workshops will be coming in the new year.
If you are interested in participating in future workshops please contact Sharon Jakubecy at info@AlexanderTechiniqueLa.com or bryan@viacorpora.com


The Alexander Technique
– Achieve Peak Performance in Your Body

Relieve Pain
Prevent Injury
Find Centeredness
Minimize Tension
Improve Flexibility
Access Energy

If you want to relieve tension, rigidity, strain and fatigue, this workshop is for you! You will learn simple techniques to move with grace, poise and confidence. By utilizing basic principles from the Alexander Technique, you will realign your body (and mind) in order to release tension and improve freedom of movement. You’ll relieve compression of your spine, counter gravity and find yourself feeling expansive, light, and energetic.

October 27, 10am – 12noon
Cost $20
Call 310-383-1796 to register.
Spaces are limited. Sign up now!

Sharon Jakubecy is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher.
www.AlexanderTechniqueLA.com
info@AlexanderTechniqueLA.com

AIKIDO, "The Way of Harmony"

AIKIDO
"The Way of Harmony"
A martial art dedicated to peaceful conflict-resolution
with Andrew Reichart Sensei
Presented by [via]CORPORA, Aikido Shusekai & Theatre Dojo.

Thursdays, 7pm-8:30pm
$20 per class
or 5 class block for $75
beginners always welcome

Benefits of Aikido Shusekai training include:
• Increased calm, confidence, awareness, and focus
• Improved stamina, posture, flexibility, and coordination
• Increased poise and resourcefulness in the face of crisis and conflict
• A bearing and attitude that helps to defuse potential conflicts before they start
• Healing of old fears and traumas related to conflict and aggression
• Meeting good people
• Fun!

questions?
call Andrew Reichart Sensei at 510.388.4483

ABOUT Aikido Shusekai:

Andrew Reichart Sensei of Theatre Dojo, founding member of Aikido Shusekai of Berkeley, Calif., is now teaching in Los Angeles. Aikido is a cutting-edge martial art that provides great exercise and increased self-confidence, as well as practical self-defense.

Aikido literally means "the way of harmony" or "the way of peace," and Aikido Shusekai means "Aikido for an excellent world."

Aikido is a peaceful martial art. It provides self-defense, but not by bashing your opponent until they stop moving. Instead, you learn to harmonize with an attacker's movements, enabling you to use their momentum against them with minimum effort on your part.

After all, an attacker isn't much of a threat if you're stronger than them. If you're bigger, you can just shove them aside and shrug. But what if someone is far mightier than you? Learning how to punch and kick is only going to get you so far. And what if there are two of them? Or three...? (With Aikido, you just throw them into each other. It's not only easy, it's hilarious.)

Perhaps most importantly, Aikido provides benefits that are
applicable throughout everyday life. Really, how much of our time do we spend in hand-to-hand combat? Hopefully none. So why practice a martial art at all? To improve our everyday lives, that's why.

The Raft

The RAFT: from practice to performance
with Bryan Brown

How do you continue to deepen your craft as a performer, to strengthen your foundation while steadily building towards a solid product?

How do you take the internal, expansive experiences discovered in practice and organically allow them to grow into a rich and nuanced performance?

This weekly session aims to create a space for intensifying one's developmental practice. By seeking again the primal experience of craft with an outward eye that allows further layers of the craft to take shape, we discover a circular process through which the organic molding of performance material begins its realization.

While the focus of the session is towards the development of originally devised live performance material, participants are encouraged to bring the material that speaks directly to them at the moment. Some possible suggestions are songs, poems, histories, scene studies, monologues, audition and film material. The opportunity is also here for filming of the "developmental performance" material, in other words, if you are interested in how physical approaches to performance translate to better film/TV acting, we have the equipment to explore with camera work.

This worksession is on need basis working with particular participants demands and schedules. Normally we work in the studio but occasionally we work outside, in parks, on trails, or at the beach. If you are interested please contact Bryan for more info.
bryan@viacorpora.com, or call 213-249-1690.

BRYAN BROWN has studied physical theater extensively in New York City, Europe, and Los Angeles. His latest reconnaissance was 6 weeks in Wroclaw, Poland working with instructors gathered by the Grotowski Institute as well as a profound worksession with Song of Goat (teatr Piesn Kozla). For almost a decade, Bryan has researched with various physical theater investigators including Stephen Wangh and Raina von Waldenburg, Shinichi Iova-Koga, Mary Overlie and other Viewpoints practitioners, the members of Odin Teatret, Commedia dell'Arte instructors, Contact Dance originators, as well as the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. The deepest application has been the process of creating, leading and learning with various experimental ensembles, most importantly with ARTEL.

Freedom Bound : Foundational Worksession

What is Presence?

Do you look at children and wonder where that freedom went?

Do you sometimes forget to breathe?

Do you sense a fuller response wanting expression onstage but your body doesn’t seem to quite know what to do?

Is your voice connected to your body?

Are your thoughts connected to both?

Perhaps a more physical based approach to the craft of performance would be the necessary foundation for you to collect, hone and release your experiences, perceptions and imagination into the artistic dynamo you know is percolating inside you.

With clear and practical application of the later investigations of Stanislavsky’s Method of Physical Actions alongside the current adaptations of Jerzy Grotowski’s research, these foundational worksessions offer actors, dancers and performing artists to investigate the technique of coordinating breath, body and voice with the freedom of being alive in the moment of performance.

“Spontaneity and discipline, far from weakening each other, mutually reinforce themselves…to become the real source of acting that glows. This lesson was neither understood by Stanislavsky, who let natural impulses dominate, nor by Brecht, who gave too much emphasis to the construction of a role.” – Grotowski

FREEDOM BOUND:

foundational worksessions towards your own physical approach to the performance craft

contact for exact times
[via]Corpora
6575 Santa Monica Blvd.

$20

bryan@viacorpora.com, or call 213-249-1690.

BRYAN BROWN has studied physical theater extensively in New York City, Europe, and Los Angeles. His latest reconnaissance was 6 weeks in Wroclaw, Poland intensely working with instructors gathered by the Grotowski Institute as well as a profound worksession with Song of Goat (teatr Piesn Kozla). For almost a decade, Bryan has researched with various physical theater investigators including Stephen Wangh and Raina von Waldenburg, Shinichi Iova-Koga, Mary Overlie and other Viewpoints practitioners, the members of Odin Teatret, Commedia dell'Arte instructors, Contact Dance originators, as well as the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. The deepest application has been the process of creating, leading and learning with various experimental ensembles.

ABOUT [via]Corpora

[via]Corpora, an extension of not-for-profit Los Angeles based theater collective ARTEL, is a center designed for performers and non-performers alike who desire to deepen their experience of the world and their expressive abilities. Through classes and workshops participants explore individually as well as collectively the connections between breath, rhythm, alignment, coordination, voice, intellect, emotion and spirit. Our goal is to build a community of participants based on Joy and Play in which all can discover and share their insights into body-mind perception and expression.

Performance Research and Development Center, is the heart of [via]Corpora. While extending our research into non-performance related applications, the bulk of worksessions offered at the center are designed to provide training to the Los Angeles community of actors and performers based on physical approaches to the craft.

Our long-term goal is to create a format for a deeper investigation, a series of ongoing weekly workshops, based on the participants' needs and interests. Possibilities include: Advanced Physical Explorations, Application of Physical Approaches to Scenes or Monologues, From the Feet Up: approaches to character, BodyVoices, Toning and Tuning, Presence: Generating Gravitas, Composition to Performance, etc. If you are unable to attend our worksessions but wish to participate in the future, please contact us at 213-249-1690.