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.
