RISE OF THE MOMENT
THE RISE OF THE MOMENT MAY 2011 !!PERFORMANCE PRACTICE
NEW SIX WEEK COURSE LED BY
BARNABY O´RORKE TREE
at K77 STUDIO, KASTANIENALLEE 77
on THURSDAYS 6.30-9.30PM 63/54 EUROS
STARTING 5TH MAY 2011
This is an invitation to performers, musical dancers, dancing musicians,
poetic athletes, athletic poets and all those that find they are neither an athlete, poet, dancer, musician, pilot, or actor but something other and definitely inspired and interested in PERFORMANCE, IMPROVISATION AND LIVE PHYSICAL ART.
This is an intermediate level course and would be useful for people with performance experience and wish to expand their practise. Newcomers must have some kind of physical training or awareness, or are stubborn, open and courageous. It is a 6 week commitment.
This course, led by Tree, will provide a mountain of ideas and possibilities that you can use to develop your own performance practice...........here are some aspects of the course.......
- TRAINING of the body - through plundering many popular techniques such as yoga, chi kung, line dancing, butoh, body alignment, disco and release for ideas and information we can discover your own body with all its limitations and potentials. You can become an authority on your on body.....yes its true. Know yourself in neutral and in action.
- VOICEWORK - taken from over twenty years experience of voice exploration and development, this work will give you the keys to discover the depths of that mysterious and most versatile of intruments, the human voice.
- RITUAL – preparation for being in performance. This work is based on the natural process the body and mind goes through when put under the stress of having to perform. Ritual supports and directs the action of stepping over into another state of being.....(or behaving unusually) AND coming back to equlised state(so you can sleep at night).
- DESIRE – learning to watch and gauge desire, using it know when to act, is the most wonderful and direct tool for improvsing and generally being creative. Its you very own navigation system!
- PRESENCE – this is the ability to be and do what you are, without embellishment, while in the line of fire, (that is infront of an audience.....ahhhh.) This includes all colours of behaviour from being amazing, to struggling, dying and being daft as a loon. Presence is, strangely enough, the relationship you have to what you are doing.
- COMPOSITION- in real time this means to be both doing and seeing what you are doing at the same time. Music is a great way to understand composition - with music it is clear when there is too much information.....you can´t hear anything.
- JOURNAL KEEPING!- the class itself is a brief THREE hours once a week, perhaps with some time for reflection, and will be a flood of information. The main part of the work and the learning for this course is done by you in your own time, scribbling and writing madly in your journal all the ideas that are coming up and/or behaving strangely in your kitchen/bathroom/underpants/shopping centre/mass demonstration......you decide.
- ASSIGNMENTS- there will be weekly research and writing assignments, how much time you put into it is up to you but I would suggest at least a half hour a day.
Do come and join me! Its going to be fun and inspiring!
If you wish to take part write to me, tell me a little about yourself, what you are interested in and read some poetry. This is a loose application process, I would like to get to know you a little before we agree to work together. Self motivation, independance and openess are key. In the class I will give you alot to do that you will have to process in your own time. My e.mail is barnaby.tree@gmail.com.
More about me on www.barnabytree.com.......