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.
[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.
