The Six Viewpoints

With Mary Overlie, May 17th - 19th
We are excited and honored to present a rare three-day workshop with Mary Overlie, the creator of the Viewpoints approach to theater creation and training. A brilliant teacher and innovator, Mary offers a distinct look at deconstructing and reconstructing theater, and reimagining the roles of the performer and the audience. This workshop will spark your creativity, broaden your toolbelts, and empower you with new ways of relating to your fellow actors, and the audience for whom you perform.

Dates: May 17th - 19th
Sat/Sun 12:30 pm - 5:30pm
Mon 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Tuition: $ 325
Location: DanzHaus
1275 Connecticut Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94107

Mary Overlie has had a long and respected career as a performer, choreographer, teacher and theater collaborator working extensively in both the United States and Europe. She had the pleasure of working Paul Langland, Nina Martin and Wendell Beavers who formed her core company from 1976 to1980 and continue to be close friends to this day. She has collaborated with theatre directors Lawrence Sachrow, Lee Breuer, Joanne Akalitis, Brian Jusha and Anne Bogart. She is immensely proud that many of these productions have won Obies.

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foolsFURY Technique

Taught by artistic director Ben Yalom and members of the foolsFURY Ensemble. May 17th - 19th
FoolsFURY offers a two-week workshop in the company’s unique, multi-faceted approach to making striking vital theater. This intensive will teach you cutting-edge techniques in contemporary theater, and help you use them in your own work. Our exploration will stretch your notions of how stories can be told on stage, and allow you to unlock new areas of creativity in your bodies, and your mind. The program brings together many of the styles and forms which we have carefully integrated into our exciting, powerful, liberating approach to creation, including: Viewpoints, Suzuki, Buffoonery, structured improvisation, focused writing exercises and more.

Dates: June 16th - 27th
Mon - Fri 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
(some additional rehersals outside class may be neccessary)
Tuition: $ 475
Location: Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab
301 8th Street, #200
San Francisco, CA 94103

The Intensive Includes: • Physical Actor Training - Acting with yourb body, acting with your mind. How do you claim that stage the moment you step foot on it? We recognize the power of actors with this ability immediately, but capturing it can seem elusive. Here you’ll develop physical control and creativity that will make your performance work compelling and powerful. • Ensemble Creation - Harnessing the power of collaboration. Theater is inherently collaborative, but true collaboration can be so diffcult! Here you’ll learn methods of using the immense creative potential in an ensemble of dedicated artists - methods that you’ll be able to apply when working with your company, or your next project. • Experimental for Everyone - Using “avant-garde” tools in making accessible plays. For the past decade foolsFURY has been exploring the edges of theatrical form, bridging the gap between highly experimental and familiar approaches to superb story-telling. Here we’ll share what we’ve discovered about using these “cutting-edge” techniques in making vibrant theater that is both thought provoking and accessible.

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Expressive Actor

Taught by Michael Lugering. June 28th - 30th
In this innovative and practical approach, the traditionally disparate disciplines of acting, voice and movement are synthesized. A series of voice and movement exercises and improvisational
studies provide the actor with tools for shaping thought and feeling into meaningful forms of expression. The goal is an expressive actor capable of powerful thought and feeling that is spectacularly human and rarely demonstrated in daily living.

Dates: June 28th - 30th
Sat/Sun 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Mon 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Tuition: $ 325
Location: Studio 210
3435 Cesar Chavez
San Francisco, 94110 CA

Michael Lugering is a master teacher of voice, movement and acting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has served as a professional voice teacher for the Utah ShakespeareFestival, and has taught workshops throughout the US, Korea, and the United Kingdom.

Two Ways to Enroll:

A) Payment by Check

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