Initiation to Object Theatre
Theatre of Trash
Regalia/Costume Ceremony/Performance
Viewpoints Workshop
Théâtre de la Pire Espèce (Montreal)
Paul Zaloom (USA)
Astrid Hadad (Mexico), Yvonne Jobin (Cree), Xstine Cook (Calgary)
Ingrid Hansen, SNAFU Dance Theatre
Powerhouse female artists from very different traditions share thoughts, cultures, and influences in the fabulously renovated Lolita’s Lounge.
Viewpoints is a movement-based technique about awareness of the body. Learn to use actions and gestures to access the emotions that are at the heart of effective acting. Awaken your own creativity to respond and direct yourself, enabling you to react more truthfully and effectively to your fellow actors. The Viewpoints theory was adapted for acting by directors Anne Bogart and Tina Landau, and grew out of work Bogart did with choreographer Martha Graham, combining elements of Asian martial arts. SNAFU Dance Theatre was founded in 2007 by Ingrid Hansen, Victor Dolhai, and Sarah Jane Pelzer in Victoria, BC, Canada.
Object Theater is a peculiar form of puppet theater in which the characters or sets are everyday objects manipulated with the performer in full view of the audience. The challenge for the actor-manipulator is to give such life to these objects that one forgets their primary function. Théâtre de la Pire Espèce performers Olivier Ducas and Francis Monty impart precise techniques, sharing how to give life to things that are unanimated, and how to suggest feelings to objects, covering the use of fixed points, changes of dynamic and counter-movements. * Catch UBU on the Table. See page 7 for details. pire-espece.com/ptitcours.html
Saturday, March 16, 11:00am The Lantern Basement 1401 10 Avenue SE Recommended for ages 14+ $55 regular / $45 members 120 minutes
Visit animatedobjects. ca
Bring six objects: toys, appliances, packaging materials, and other ordinary or extraordinary rubbish to explore Zaloom’s world of puppetry. Zaloom discusses object theater and invites participants to operate the assembled junk as puppets and environments. Zaloom shares how he invents his own foundobject work, and covers improvisation, free association, humor, child’s play as process, the nature of objects, and puppetry in general. Zaloom has taught at Cal Arts, R.I.S.D., the O’Neill Theater Center, N.Y.U., Emerson College, George Mason University, the Omega Institute, and Institut Internationale de la Marionette, Charlesville-Meziers, France, amongst many others. * Catch WHITE LIKE ME. See page 6 for details. zaloom.com
Join social activist and artist Sharon Stevens (Calgary), as she moderates a conversation about the role of the sacred in each artist’s work. astridhadad.com moonstonecreation.ca animatedobjects.ca essense.ca
Saturday, March 16, 2:30pm Lolita’s Lounge 1413 9 Avenue SE Recommended for ages 14+ $20 regular / $15 members 90 minutes
* See page 6 for SNAFU’s Little Orange Man. snafudance.com
Saturday, March 16, 2:00pm
Sunday, March 17, 1:00 pm
The Lantern Basement 1401 10 Avenue SE
Lantern Church Basement 1401 10 Avenue SE
Recommended for ages 14+ $55 regular / $45 members 120 minutes
Recommended for 14+ $55 regular / $45 members 3 hours
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