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Audition(Free Workshop) for summer performance project, "Proximity"
Where: Danceground Keriac
1805 Divisadero, San Francisco, California
When: Sunday May 27, 7p-10p
If you aren’t coming to audition, but just want to check out the work, you are very welcome to come … suggested donation in this case $15.
RSVP to (206) 790 1645 or karlfrost@bodyresearch.org
www.BODYRESEARCH.org
I'm working on a new piece for July/August, called Proximity and am looking for performers.
The piece explores interconnection, isolation, behavioral rules, and physical honesty and mixes stage performance with audience interaction. The themes and methodology of the work emerge out of two of Frost’s previous works, Ashes (exploring the juxtoposition of release-based partnering with emotional explorations from Growtowski and somatic psychotherapeutic modalities) and Axolotl (a participatory performance in which the audience is blindfolded for 2 hours and invited to interact with each other and a group of actors and dancers exploring the slippery nature of meaningful experience).
Looking for performers with skills/experience in some combination of…
· contemporary dance/release technique
· physical acting
· the technical sides of contact improvisation
· somatic-psychotherapeutic modalities
· exploring personal interaction / good conversation
· butoh
· martial arts
The audition will be in the form of a 3 hour workshop, half of which will be a training in release-based contact improvisation and the other half working with explorations in interactive performance.
Looking both for Project Members and for “Extras”
Project Members will be helping develop the work and will be full members of the piece. There will be 10-12 of us in all … we are looking for one or two more project members.
Project Members must be available for the rehearsal period of June 25 – July 25 and for performances July 26- Aug 12 in San Francisco and Santa Cruz. Rehearsals will be in wilderness retreat out on the Yuba River.
Money to pay performers is out of ticket sales, so would likely be a token amount only. Food and transport is covered during the rehearsal month, however. Also, Project members can do Body Research trainings for free during the period of the project including
· Dancing Wilderness Project: July 13-16
· Contact workshop at Cabrillo College: July 29 – August 4
· Anatomy Lab: August 11-19
Extras will be incorporated into the transitional elements between proscenium and participatory sections of the work and during the interactive parts will be something like “Prepared Audience Members”. We are looking for about 6 Extras.
Extras must be available to come out for 3 - 5 days of rehearsal out on the Yuba River and be available in the period of July 26- August 12 for performances. The rehearsal period will be sometime in July, specific dates tba, depending on people’s schedules. Due to the nature of the work, there can be some flexibility, if you can’t make all the performing nights. This is unpaid, but some exchange for workshops is offered.
Where: Danceground Keriac
1805 Divisadero, San Francisco, California
When: Sunday May 27, 7p-10p
If you aren’t coming to audition, but just want to check out the work, you are very welcome to come … suggested donation in this case $15.
RSVP to (206) 790 1645 or karlfrost@bodyresearch.org
www.BODYRESEARCH.org
I'm working on a new piece for July/August, called Proximity and am looking for performers.
The piece explores interconnection, isolation, behavioral rules, and physical honesty and mixes stage performance with audience interaction. The themes and methodology of the work emerge out of two of Frost’s previous works, Ashes (exploring the juxtoposition of release-based partnering with emotional explorations from Growtowski and somatic psychotherapeutic modalities) and Axolotl (a participatory performance in which the audience is blindfolded for 2 hours and invited to interact with each other and a group of actors and dancers exploring the slippery nature of meaningful experience).
Looking for performers with skills/experience in some combination of…
· contemporary dance/release technique
· physical acting
· the technical sides of contact improvisation
· somatic-psychotherapeutic modalities
· exploring personal interaction / good conversation
· butoh
· martial arts
The audition will be in the form of a 3 hour workshop, half of which will be a training in release-based contact improvisation and the other half working with explorations in interactive performance.
Looking both for Project Members and for “Extras”
Project Members will be helping develop the work and will be full members of the piece. There will be 10-12 of us in all … we are looking for one or two more project members.
Project Members must be available for the rehearsal period of June 25 – July 25 and for performances July 26- Aug 12 in San Francisco and Santa Cruz. Rehearsals will be in wilderness retreat out on the Yuba River.
Money to pay performers is out of ticket sales, so would likely be a token amount only. Food and transport is covered during the rehearsal month, however. Also, Project members can do Body Research trainings for free during the period of the project including
· Dancing Wilderness Project: July 13-16
· Contact workshop at Cabrillo College: July 29 – August 4
· Anatomy Lab: August 11-19
Extras will be incorporated into the transitional elements between proscenium and participatory sections of the work and during the interactive parts will be something like “Prepared Audience Members”. We are looking for about 6 Extras.
Extras must be available to come out for 3 - 5 days of rehearsal out on the Yuba River and be available in the period of July 26- August 12 for performances. The rehearsal period will be sometime in July, specific dates tba, depending on people’s schedules. Due to the nature of the work, there can be some flexibility, if you can’t make all the performing nights. This is unpaid, but some exchange for workshops is offered.
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Re: Sunday May 27, Audition/Free Workshop in SF, California for project w/Karl Frost/Body Research
Tue, May 29, 2007 - 11:04 AMHi there Karl. I just came across this mail and got more than excitted. I live in Seattle and have found a connective tissue awareness of myself and others in my perriphial understanding of Butoh. Meaning I have not taken any formal Butoh classes yet. Discovering a paticular discipline or pathway through natural tendancies is very powerful for me. I have been gifted with the collaborative innteraction on some creative pieces at The Little Red Studio (which I am a troupe member of) with Cody Strauss. Not sure if you know her or not. She has awoken the contact improvisationalist in me, though I should say I have had no formal classes yet in that either. I do have a theatrical degree from AADA in Southern CA where I am from, and have been involved in dancing and theater of sorts for the past 12 years. What draws me o Butoh is the ritual aspect. I wonder if a phone conversation might be better for this? Anyho, I noticed an energy connection when I looked at your picture so here I am telling you about myself for some reason.
I have been a magickal practitioner/teacher for the past 12 years of both Ceremonial and earth based traditions. I am also a energy worker/healer. The movement and manipulation of energy around fires with ash and mud on my hands and self is very strong for me. I have visited this place at the last 2 outdoor events I've been to. So I guess what I am saying is finding like minded indiviuals or groups of folks to explore maddness of sorts with in it's truth form is what I'm finding in my periphial understanding of my body and movement of late.
Hmmmmppphhh! Hope that starts an interestingdialogue. I'm on tribe and my personal email is evalunamoon@yahoo.com
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Re: Sunday May 27, Audition/Free Workshop in SF, California for project w/Karl Frost/Body Research
Tue, May 29, 2007 - 5:45 PMEva, I'll send you a seperate note to start a conversation... glad you are interested!
If anyone else is interested, do feel free to write to me directly.
I put this on the butoh list not because we will be doing a lot of "straight from lineage" butoh, but because some of the somatic-psychological explorations go to very similar places and butoh excerices very similar psychic muscles investingating a similar emotional physical/immediacy...
K
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