viaCorpora is honored to be co-producing with Ilana K Turner the first Breathing Performer workshops in Los Angeles. Christopher Sivertsen was last in Los Angeles performing with the Song of the Goat theater at UCLA and assisted Grzegorz Bral in their one-day workshop in 2005. He now returns to Los Angeles with his unique approach to performer training.
The Breathing Performer workshop is an opportunity to learn from Christopher Sivertsen's rich experience in laboratory theatre practice and his own personal research into the performer's craft. He draws upon a broad range of inspirations including; folklore, hip-hop, acrobatics, rhythms, traditional, devotional and secular music and stories.
Using specific exercises that are designed to open your body and develop your trust in your own physical and imaginative creativity, the participants will be guided into their own unknown territory.
You will choose any classical monologue you know very well and using its text, a score will be created consisting of music, physicality and movement. Assisted by the other participants as the ensemble or the chorus of characters in the play, you become the narrator, the puppeteer, the conductor, the master of ceremony and the protagonist.
Date: Saturday and Sunday, 24 -25 October 2009
Time: 12 -5pm
Price: $200 Before 5 Oct, After $240
Note: There is an application form for this workshop. Contact bryan@viacorpora.com
Watch the AWAKE Project video to a glimpse into Christopher's work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRMGxmgKhaY
As a performer, Christopher was a member of both Theatre Slava in Sweden and Teatr Piesn Kozla (Song of the Goat) in Poland. Since 2006, Christopher has been collaborating and working with a many companies and institutions, such as RADA in London, the Diaspora project and RSAMD in Glasgow and Georgetown University in Washington. Christopher is the artistic director of the Awake project, a group of international theatre artists brought together to create a performance, and to lead large scale youth exchange projects in Europe. The Awake project is also the Swedish representative for the UNESCO year of Grotowski.
For more info and a fantastic PDF with photos:
http://www.awakeproject.com/
