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LEIMAY Ludus Lab with theater master Mario Biagini, Associate Director of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards


Dates:
Sat Jun 28, 2014 10:00 - Mon Jun 30, 2014

Location:
Brooklyn, New York
United States of America

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 singing traditional songs from the South of United States and exploring elements of the physical training developed at the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards over the past twenty-seven years.

The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards is active within the structure of Fondazione Pontedera Teatro



Dates: June 28th – 30th, 10am – 2pm
Price: $240 full course / $95 single class

Pre-registration is required
Members’ discounts and other discounts valid for online payment only

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Mario Biagini: Associate Director of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, Mario Biagini has been a central contributor to practical research in the domain of Art as Vehicle for more than twenty years. Working in the team led by Thomas Richards, Biagini quickly became a key member of the Workcenter practical research. He was a doer in Downstairs Action and a principal doer in Action, a performative opus created by Richards that underwent continuous development from 1994 to 2009. Beginning relatively early in his residency at the Workcenter, Biagini was entrusted by Grotowski with artisanal and pedagogical responsibilities that lead him in 1987 to direct a working team at the Workcenter in which he worked not only as principal actor but also as director. Biagini’s role as director/actor further articulated itself in the framework of Project The Bridge: Developing Theatre Arts (1999 to 2006), a branch of the Workcenter research for which Biagini exercised primary creative and pedagogical responsibilities. He was the primary director of One Breath Left, in which he also acted, and subsequently of Dies Iræ: The Preposterous Theatrum Interioris Show, for which he also created the textual montage and performed the lead male role. At the Workcenter in 2007, he began the supervision of the newly formed Open Program, continuing the investigative thrust of Project The Bridge in its exploration of publicly accessible performances that keep alive within themselves aspects of the subtle interior process characteristic of Art as Vehicle.


EVENT

LEIMAY Ludus Lab with butoh dancer Kota Yamazaki


Dates:
Sun Jun 08, 2014 10:00 - Sun Jun 08, 2014

Location:
Brooklyn, New York
United States of America

In this single session, students will explore the unknown possibilities of butoh through Kota Yamazaki’s approach to butoh and his Fluid Technique. Butoh’s approach to space and time is almost opposite from Western dance forms. By imaging physical senses such as distorting, weakening, sickening, sinking, and inwarding and by sensing absence and presence, a constant bodily transformation is provoked. Students will be encouraged to develop an awareness of what is occurring both inwardly and outwardly. In Fluid Technique, just as in Noguchi Taizo, the body is a container filled with water. When a part of the body is dropped from a neutral condition, weight and gravity create momentum. By loosening every joint of the body and awakening inner awareness, the subtle flow of vibration can be sensed and enabled to travel through the joints. This vibration can then be transformed into fluid movement as well as into vocalization.

Date: June 8th // 10:00am-1:00pm
Price: $36
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Kota Yamazaki is a Japanese dancer and choreographer graduated from Bunka Fashion College. In 1977 he was introduced to butoh and in 1981 began studying classical ballet. His company, Fluid hug-hug, and his work has been presented nationally and internationally. In 2007, Yamazaki received the New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”) with Germaine Acogny.


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LEIMAY Ludus Lab with Guest Butoh Artist Moeno Wakamatsu


Dates:
Fri Jun 27, 2014 14:00 - Sun Jun 29, 2014

Location:
Brooklyn, New York
United States of America

“The basis of my dance is an attempt to make visible what already exists in the environment but was hitherto invisible and without meaning.”

In dance, if we position ourselves to perceive the environment directly, the environment itself will manifest in our body as presence, physicality, and movement. When the mind and body are in a status of acute listening, we can approach an expression of the true-self. This LEIMAY Ludus Training Lab will focus on physical and mental training to sharpen awareness, sensitivity, and concentration. How can the body be moved, not by self-volition, but by the properties of time, space, and matter? How to sense and embody the subtleties of density, weight, temperature, light/darkness, textures, and currents of time and space. How to clearly externalize and to direct felt sensations and desires as an expression.

Dates: June 27th-29th // 2:00pm-6:00pm
Price: $160 full course / $56 single class
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Born 1975 in Tokyo Japan. She is a dancer, a Feldenkrais practitioner, and an architect. After her younger years in New York City where she studied at The Cooper Union School of Architecture, she gradually extended her work in the US and Europe as a solo performer.
Her work exists outside of the art of ideas or concepts, and aims for direct communication in intensified time and space. A manifestation of an expression that is beyond physical movement, her work often perplexes ordinary dance categorization.

“I wish to suspend within the moment where inner desire meets outer phenomena.”


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LEIMAY Ludus Lab with Theater Master Polina Klimovistkaya


Dates:
Sat Jun 14, 2014 10:00 - Sun Jun 15, 2014

Location:
Brooklyn, New York
United States of America

Klimovitskaya’s Kinetic Mind Training is a way to free the intuitive, creative mind and enhance a performer’s visceral presence. It challenges our everyday, analytical thought processes and guides artists toward their own deep and unique creative cores where they can tap into true presence —that absolute presence of being and spontaneity of reaction that makes animals so magnetically attractive.

A workshop for artists who want:

-To reconnect with their creative selves, which in turn will open the way to organically connect with others
-To explore their idiosyncratic mental/physical patterns, which limit artistic freedom
-To access the deeper feelings held in the body, allowing the mind to become absorbed by the body and the body by the mind
-To embody the character through specific behavior
-To contact Klimovitskaya’s unique way of ‘Animal Work’

Registrants will be sent in advance information of what to prepare for the workshop.

Dates: June 14th & 15th // 10:00am – 3:00pm
Price: $120
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Polina Klimovitskaya is an international director and master teacher, currently on faculty at Yale University and Michael Howard Studios, who began her career in Moscow and has taught and directed across Europe and the USA. She founded Terra Incognita in the early 1980s, and the group has performed at various venues across the USA and Europe. Natalia Krasnova and Jeremy Goren are the company’s active members, and Jenna Kirk and Isobel Roth have been working with Terra for several years each.


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LEIMAY Ludus Training Summer Intensive with Artistic Director Ximena Garnica


Dates:
Mon Jun 23, 2014 18:00 - Fri Jun 27, 2014

Location:
Brooklyn, New York
United States of America

LEIMAY Ludus Training is envisioned by artistic director Ximena Garnica as a laboratory for developing and sharing an instinctive, conscious and rigorous way to cultivate the performer’s body. It is constantly reinvented in conversation with internal and external dynamics rather than relying on a singular technique. LEIMAY Ludus values training as an act of growing the body through embracing it voice, soul, intellect and physicality.

The second annual Ludus Training Summer Intensive is open to dancers, actors, performers, movers and those interested in investigating the human body’s vast possibilities. Ximena utilizes improvisation as a means of personal exploration, thus accessing each student’s individual physical potential so as to develop a unique and individualized movement vocabulary.

Exercises offer opportunities to explore internal openness and energy flow; to distinguish different approaches to generating energy and impulses; to activate different body qualities; and to facilitate an awareness of consciousness through the exploration of the unconscious domain. During the LEIMAY Ludus Summer Intensive participants will be engaged in practices which cultivate an individual presence and prepare an alert and neutral body that is ready to perform and to be moved.

Dates Monday, June 23rd – Friday June 27th//6pm – 10pm
Price $140 whole course / $40 single class
Pre-registration is required
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Ximena Garnica is a Colombian born interdisciplinary choreographer, director and artist based in New York. She received a B.A. in theater arts with a minor in multimedia studies from the City College of New York. In 2006 she graduated from Akira Kasai’s Tenshikan Dance Institute in Tokyo. Ximena is active as a curator and producer. She has been awarded with the 2010 Bessie Schonberg Individual Choreographers Residency at the Yard and has been recognized with the prestigious Van Lier Fellowship for young Hispanic directors in New York. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally in Japan, Spain, France, The Netherlands, Mexico and Colombia. Currently she teaches at P.H.T.S, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Drama. Other teaching credits included master classes and lectures at Denison University, Skidmore College, DeSales University, Muhlenberg College and the Academia Superior de Artes de Bogota. She lives in Brooklyn and leads ongoing training in dance and performance at CAVE.