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Viewpoints Intensive: A Weekend Workshop with Mortar Theatre and Pegasus Players
Saturday & Sunday, October 6-7, 12-4:30 p.m.
4520 N. Beacon Street
Chicago, IL
This October, Mortar Theatre Company and Pegasus Players will host Viewpoints Intensive: A Weekend Workshop in The Studio at Pegasus/Uptown Center. The workshop is part of a series of collaborative programming between the two companies called AUTUMN MUSE.
The Viewpoints technique of ensemble interaction, improvisation, and movement has become a dominant form of actor training in the United States and Chicago in particular. Originally developed by choreographer Mary Overlie, the Viewpoints were later expanded and adapted for actors by Steppenwolf's Tina Landau and SITI Company's Anne Bogart. The Viewpoints are an essential foundation for the modern actor. Led by Stephanie Stroud and Sentell Harper, the workshop will be limited to 15 participants. Prior knowledge of Viewpoints is not necessary.
This Viewpoints workshop will introduce actors to the Viewpoints of Time and Space. The Viewpoints teach actors to develop the technique of ensemble work through active listening, spontaneity, trust, kinesthetic response, shared energy, spatial relationships and becoming present. The workshop artist will explore Viewpoints through grid-work, the flow, and lane-work, culminating in Open Viewpoints.
INSTRUCTORS
Workshop lead and Mortar Theatre Producing Ensemble Member Stephanie Stroud received her M.F.A. in Acting from Pennsylvania State University, where she studied the Viewpoints, Lacoq, Tai Chi, Mime and Mask from the nationally recognized authority on stage movement, Mark Olsen. Stephanie has applied the Viewpoints to both solo and ensemble theatrical productions. Recent Viewpoints Collaboration: Henry V (Pennsylvania Center Stage), Home Run (Steppenwolf: Explore Detroit), Corazón de Manzana (Mortar Theatre Company at Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs).
Workshop lead and Mortar Theatre Artistic Associate Sentell Harper studied Viewpoints with the renowned SITI Company under the direction of Anne Bogart while receiving his M.F.A. in Acting at Arizona State University. For three years he was part of a collaborative group of theatre artists who worked with SITI Company members that used the Viewpoints to create original pieces for main stage productions at the Herberger School of Fine Arts while also teaching Viewpoints to theatre undergrads at Arizona State University. Sentell's continued study and use of the Viewpoints has furthered his own original solo performances and helped him reimagine characters, words, and space through a vocabulary that is beneficial to all actors.
PARTICIPANTS REQUIREMENTS
Prior knowledge of Viewpoints is NOT necessary. The class demands physical agility, endurance, and conditioning. Please come dressed to move (no jeans, dresses or skirts). Non-restrictive shorts, tights, yoga pants or leggings are necessary. Viewpoints work will be conducted in bare feet.
ABOUT MORTAR THEATRE COMPANY
Mortar Theatre is an experiment in rethinking the system. A space for innovative visuals and staging. A connection point where audience and artist dare to be collaborative rebels. An exercise in fearless storytelling. Mortar brings a devotion to the holistic development of new work as an artistic collective composed of actors, directors, designers and playwrights.
ABOUT PEGASUS PLAYERS
For more than 33 years, Pegasus Players has been committed to providing high quality, socially relevant theatre to Chicago, especially people who have limited access to the arts. Pegasus Players is committed to presenting new and contemporary work that crosses cultural, social, and geographical boundaries and brings communities together by presenting works that provoke dialogue. Through programs such as its annual Young Playwrights Festival and international tours of productions, Pegasus Players has touched the hearts, minds and futures of thousands of people throughout Chicago and around the world. Pegasus Players has received over 80 Joseph Jefferson Non-Equity Awards.
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LocationThe Studio at Pegasus/Uptown Center
4520 N. Beacon Street
Chicago, IL 60640
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 18 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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