[Reader-list] [Announcements] Selves, Masks, Performance - the stage and beyond

[Logos Theatre]

Logos Theatre is organizing '*Selves, Masks, Performance - the stage and
beyond' *: a workshop on different approaches, techniques and ways of
looking at acting and performing; and how these ways of looking extend
beyond the stage and into everyday life.

The programme looks at the concept of the self, or the many selves that we
slip into in performance and in everyday life, and tries to deal with
concepts of 'role' and 'character', the wearing and uncovering of ' masks',
and the question, 'what is the essential me?'. It also examines the meaning
of 'performance ', 'doing', 'act', and 'action'.

As opposed to traditional approaches to acting such as the method, which
insist on approaching a role through elaborate character study, the workshop
is centred around the body and creating emotion and expression through
breath and physicality, and most importantly, it looks at performance as
creative play.

>From a functional point of view, the workshop enriches participants with
techniques that free the natural, inner voice, and enhance spatial command,
thereby enhancing one's awareness of self and helping one to become a more
dynamic presenter and communicator. However, the real value of the workshop
is in the window it provides to the individual's inner universe, and the way
it connects the individual to the universal human experience.


An outline:

•Breath and voice: Breath and the self, emoting and expressing through
breath, unlocking the voice.

•Patterns of movement: Threads in space.

•Play and playing - ideas, objects and space.

•Body sculpts, images, thought tracking, power and hierarchy.

•Associations, images, and imagination - confronting the id.

•Memory and myth

•Speaking the speech - A physical approach to text. Classical Indian and
Western theatre, Shakespeare, and beyond.

•Theatre of the absurd, contemporary performance texts and devised work






Facilitator: Arka Mukhopadhyay is a Bangalore based poet and theatremaker
who also works on performance poetry and performance art as theStillDancer.
His poetry has been published in various national and international
journals. He has taught drama at an international school in Bangalore and
has performed and conducted workshops at educational institutions throughout
the country.

Logos Theatre, is an exploratory outfit committed to negotiating the
difficult terrain that lies at the crossways of theatrical
process, spontaneity and the subconscious; as also to discovering new
landscapes opened up by dialogues between performing arts, performance arts
and the contemporary media arts.




Dates: May 19th - May 28th.

Workshop timings: 18:00 to 21:00

Fees: Rs. 3,500/-

Registration deadline: May 15th.

contact: 9880966313

e-mail: logos.theword at gmail.com


Please do pass this along to those who you think might be interested. If
you'd like your organization to sponsor you, please do send this to the
appropriate people.



-- 
Logos Theatre
          In the beginning was the word
No. 126,
3rd Main Road,
Jayamahal Extension,
Bangalore 560046
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If it be now, 'tis not to come;
if it be not to come, it will be now;
if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.
Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
Let be.
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