Mario Biagini from The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards teaching a LEIMAY Ludus Lab!

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Mario Biagini from The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards teaching a LEIMAY Ludus Lab!

Time: January 20, 2014 to January 23, 2014
Location: CAVE home of LEIMAY
Street: 58 Grand St
City/Town: Brooklyn
Website or Map: http://leimaymain.cavearts.or…
Phone: 3478384677
Event Type: workshop
Organized By: LEIMAY
Latest Activity: Jan 20, 2014

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A rare opportunity to work with actor, director, and close associate of Jerzy Grotowski Mario Biagini. 

This LEIMAY Ludus Lab with guest director Mario Biagini from The Workcenter is divided in three different modules: 1) Singing and Organic Behavior, 2) Intentional Action – Spontaneity and Structure, and 3) Physical Training. Modules can be taken separately or together. 


This LEIMAY Ludus Lab is open to actors, dancers, body rooted performers or anybody interested in exploring the elements of the actor’s craft. 

Within the whole duration of this LEIMAY Ludus Lab taught by guest director Mario Biagini, participants will explore fundamental elements of the actor’s craft such as organicity, relation, contact, impulse, intention, action and reaction, the relation between process and form, and strive towards an understanding of the difference between movement and action. Under the direction and guidance of Biagini, participants will work on the creation of individual and collective acting scenes, on singing ancient traditional songs, and learn elements of the physical training developed at the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards over the past twenty-seven years. These modules will allow participants to approach the basic aspects of practical research at the Workcenter, and to discover their own individual and unique approach to creation. 

Modules will explore the basic but complex constitutive elements of the actor’s craft:

-Relation: precision / organicity
-Relation: tradition / individual work
-Relation: ritual / drama
-Composed movement and rhythm
-Singing
-Vibration of the voice
-Body resonators and spatial resonance
-Awareness of space and reacting to its constituent elements
-Improvisation: the impulses / the vigilant mind
-Improvisation within a structure
-Search for a precise line and logic of impulses and physical actions: the score

Please read descriptions for each individual module in LEIMAY's website as you might be expected to bring or prepare materials for it.

Full sessions schedule: All three modules (48 hours), Monday through Wednesday, 10am to 2pm. January 6 – 8, 13-15, 20-22 & 27-29. Times: 10am to 2pm

Detailed Schedule:
Module One "Singing and Organic Behavior":
January 6,7,8,13 (Mon, Tue, Wed, Mon) 10am to 2pm

Module Two "Intentional Action -Spontaneity and Structure":

January 14,15,20,21 (Tue, Wed, Mon, Tue) 10am to 2pm

Module Three "Physical Training": 
January 22,27,28,29 (Wed, Mon, Tue, Wed) 10am to 2pm

Online registration is required. 

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