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Breathing Performer with Christopher Sivertsen

-- Saturday-Sunday, October 24-25, 2009 12-5pm --

The Breathing Performer workshop is an opportunity to learn from Christopher Sivertsen's rich experience in laboratory theatre practice and his own personal research into the performer's craft. He draws upon a broad range of inspirations including; folklore, hip-hop, acrobatics, rhythms, traditional, devotional and secular music and stories.

Using specific exercises that are designed to open your body and develop your trust in your own physical and imaginative creativity, the participants will be guided into their own unknown territory.

You will choose any classical monologue you know very well and using its text, a score will be created consisting of music, physicality and movement. Assisted by the other participants as the ensemble or the chorus of characters in the play, you become the narrator, the puppeteer, the conductor, the master of ceremony and the protagonist.

As a performer, Christopher was a member of both theatre Slava in Sweden and Teatr Piesn Kozla (Song of the Goat) in Poland. Since 2006, Christopher has been collaborating and working with a many companies and institutions, such as RADA in London, the Diaspora project and RSAMD in Glasgow and Georgetown University in Washington. Christopher is the artistic director of the Awake project, a group of international theatre artists brought together to create a performance, and to lead large scale youth exchange projects in Europe. The Awake project is also the Swedish representative for the UNESCO year of Grotowski.