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Julia Barclay
Jan 2, 2013, 9:38:33 PM1/2/13
to perform...@googlegroups.com, Jennifer Fouche, Stacey Donovan, Sarah Lowengard, Sarah Sigal, Anna Dunwell, Kyle Kate Dudley, Dongshin Chang, geof...@nytw.org
Dear friends and colleagues,
The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)
--founded in 1990--
451 West Street
New York, New York 10014
(212) 924-1858
topl...@gmail.com
in...@toplab.org
http://www.toplab.org
The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)
"We must emphasize: What Brecht does not want is that the spectators
continue to leave their brains with their hats upon entering the
theater, as do bourgeois spectators." --Augusto Boal
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways.
The point is to change it." --Karl Marx
The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)
presents
Cutting It Up
a two-day workshop
facilitated by Julia Barclay
Saturday, January 26, 2013 from 12:00 noon to 6:00 pm, and
Sunday, January 27 from 12:00 noon to 6:00 pm
at The Brecht Forum
451 West Street (West Side Highway at Bank Street, one block north of
West Eleventh Street)
New York City
In this two-day workshop, we will review the tools learned in the
one-day workshops last Spring and move forward so that participants
can create their own work using these tools. Beginners to the workshop
as well as prior participants are welcome.
On the first day we will review the tools that break down both the
basic elements of how we communicate with each other and the (mostly
unspoken/hidden) rules that govern that communication. Working with
verbal and gesture clichés relating to class, race, religion and
gender, we will look at how (and to whom) we speak, and develop tools
that will enable us to get underneath social clichés in a playful way,
thus coaxing the hidden rules into the room. By so doing, those rules
will be shown to be mutable rather than fixed.
These tools are useful both for creating new kinds of
political-philosophical performances and interactions, and also for
discovering new ways of communicating within and among groups that are
interested in getting beyond habituated patterns of “that's the way it
is” thinking. We will discuss the meaning and possible application of
each tool outside the workshop.
In the second day, participants will break into smaller groups so they
can integrate these tools with their own specific skills and/or
interests (therapeutic, pedagogical, activist, performance, visual,
musical). These groups will experiment with creating events and/or
exercises in which these tools can be applied to specific
concerns/disciplines. These events and/or exercises will be presented
to the whole group at the end of the day.
The Cutting It Up workshop has evolved from over 15 years of work with
an international groups of actors, dancers, writers, visual artists
and musicians in experimental theater labs in New York City (The
Present Company: 1997-2001) and London (Apocryphal Theatre:
2004-2011).
This workshop is open to all and no prior theater experience is
necessary to participate. Pre-registration is strongly encouraged.
Please write to topl...@gmail.com for further information or to let
us know you will be attending.
Julia Lee Barclay is an award-winning director and writer whose work
has been published and produced internationally. She lived in NYC for
most of her professional life, and, having lived and worked in London
for the past eight years, returned home in October 2011. She received
a practice-as-research PhD from the University of Northampton (UK) in
December 2009, for which she received a full fellowship, and was the
founding Artistic Director of Apocryphal Theatre in London from
2004-2011. She has led these workshops at many universities,
conferences, festivals and other venues throughout Europe and the US.
Many of her plays have been published in anthologies and most can be
read online at http://www.indietheaternow.com and she writes about her
shifting roles and identities on her blog Somewhere in Transition at
http://julialeebarclay.blogspot.com. She is Adjunct Assistant
Professor at CUNY, teaching acting (Hunter College) and interpersonal
communications (Bronx Community College).
Tuition--sliding scale: $65-$95
Happy New Year! To start your year off right with a little experimental theater playfulness, please see below invitation to my upcoming workshop at The Brecht Forum (Jan. 26-27) sponsored by TOPLAB. This workshop will build on the one-day workshops I taught last year but will also be accessible to those who have not worked with me before, because we will do a review of the basic tools. You can also participate if you have no theater experience at all. This two-day workshop will afford time to allow participants to bring in their own skills and expertise to bear on the new tools to create something new. I would love to have you come along! I would be grateful, too, if you could forward the information to anyone who you think may be interested.
Because of flooding from Sandy, Brecht Forum is backed up with work and so they have not yet posted upcoming workshops online, but the space has re-opened and the workshop is happening. If you cannot register online, but want to secure a place, you can contact me directly and I will add you to the list and you can pay for the workshop on the day. I will also contact you when the workshop is posted online, so you can pre-register if that is a better option. Please note that workshop fee is on a sliding scale. Therefore if you are in a position to pay the full amount, we would be grateful if you could, as the proceeds are split between Brecht Forum and me, both are a good cause! Alternatively, however, if you cannot pay full amount or even the lower end of the sliding scale, please do come along anyway. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. This is why we ask the folks who can pay the full amount to do so, in order to make it possible to give places to those who cannot pay as much to participate.
If you have any questions about the workshop, do not hesitate to get in touch....and until then:
all best wishes for 2013!
Julia
Julia Lee Barclay, Ph.D.
writer/director/artist/researcher
****
The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)
--founded in 1990--
451 West Street
New York, New York 10014
(212) 924-1858
topl...@gmail.com
in...@toplab.org
http://www.toplab.org
The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)
"We must emphasize: What Brecht does not want is that the spectators
continue to leave their brains with their hats upon entering the
theater, as do bourgeois spectators." --Augusto Boal
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways.
The point is to change it." --Karl Marx
The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory (TOPLAB)
presents
Cutting It Up
a two-day workshop
facilitated by Julia Barclay
Saturday, January 26, 2013 from 12:00 noon to 6:00 pm, and
Sunday, January 27 from 12:00 noon to 6:00 pm
at The Brecht Forum
451 West Street (West Side Highway at Bank Street, one block north of
West Eleventh Street)
New York City
In this two-day workshop, we will review the tools learned in the
one-day workshops last Spring and move forward so that participants
can create their own work using these tools. Beginners to the workshop
as well as prior participants are welcome.
On the first day we will review the tools that break down both the
basic elements of how we communicate with each other and the (mostly
unspoken/hidden) rules that govern that communication. Working with
verbal and gesture clichés relating to class, race, religion and
gender, we will look at how (and to whom) we speak, and develop tools
that will enable us to get underneath social clichés in a playful way,
thus coaxing the hidden rules into the room. By so doing, those rules
will be shown to be mutable rather than fixed.
These tools are useful both for creating new kinds of
political-philosophical performances and interactions, and also for
discovering new ways of communicating within and among groups that are
interested in getting beyond habituated patterns of “that's the way it
is” thinking. We will discuss the meaning and possible application of
each tool outside the workshop.
In the second day, participants will break into smaller groups so they
can integrate these tools with their own specific skills and/or
interests (therapeutic, pedagogical, activist, performance, visual,
musical). These groups will experiment with creating events and/or
exercises in which these tools can be applied to specific
concerns/disciplines. These events and/or exercises will be presented
to the whole group at the end of the day.
The Cutting It Up workshop has evolved from over 15 years of work with
an international groups of actors, dancers, writers, visual artists
and musicians in experimental theater labs in New York City (The
Present Company: 1997-2001) and London (Apocryphal Theatre:
2004-2011).
This workshop is open to all and no prior theater experience is
necessary to participate. Pre-registration is strongly encouraged.
Please write to topl...@gmail.com for further information or to let
us know you will be attending.
Julia Lee Barclay is an award-winning director and writer whose work
has been published and produced internationally. She lived in NYC for
most of her professional life, and, having lived and worked in London
for the past eight years, returned home in October 2011. She received
a practice-as-research PhD from the University of Northampton (UK) in
December 2009, for which she received a full fellowship, and was the
founding Artistic Director of Apocryphal Theatre in London from
2004-2011. She has led these workshops at many universities,
conferences, festivals and other venues throughout Europe and the US.
Many of her plays have been published in anthologies and most can be
read online at http://www.indietheaternow.com and she writes about her
shifting roles and identities on her blog Somewhere in Transition at
http://julialeebarclay.blogspot.com. She is Adjunct Assistant
Professor at CUNY, teaching acting (Hunter College) and interpersonal
communications (Bronx Community College).
Tuition--sliding scale: $65-$95
Online registration details to be announced.
Julia Lee Barclay, PhD
writer/director/researcher/professor
"We struggle with dream figures and our blows fall on living faces" Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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