Workshop: Actor on the Road

Encountering the Legacy of Grotowski’s Polish Theatre Lab with Kim Mancuso & Kermit Dunkelberg of Pilgrim Theatre

July 24-29, 2006

A six-day intensive, practical workshop for performers, directors and other theatre makers. Open to all levels of experience.

Explore Pilgrim Theatre's unique approach to performance creation developed through years of work with members of the Polish Laboratory Theatre, (Zbigniew Cynkutis, Zygmunt Molik, Rena Mirecka, Jerzy Grotowski) and others on the continuum of experimental theatre practice. Work will include:

• physical training (presence, impulse, expressivity);
• vocal training, resonators, group sound, approaching text as partner); and
• generating provocative performance material.

You, the actor, are the source. We will utilize body, voice, imagination, experience, sense memory and association to seek new forms of creative expression and go beyond our perceived limits. The process will culminate in a brief final presentation.

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Workshops cost $350. Early bird registration discount available, and for members of the Network of Ensemble Theatres, and Actor's Equity. Optional room and board are available on the Amherst College campus for an additional fee. (See registration form.)

Workshops will be held from 10 am - 4 pm in Studio II of Webster Hal on the Amherst College campus in Amherst, MA.

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To Register: Download registration form and mail to:
   Ko Festival of Performance
   PO Box 137
   Amherst, MA 01004

For further information, or if the form doesn't download properly e-mail info@kofest.com, or call (413) 427-6147.