ACTION LAB

Action Lab is a site for the investigation of ACTION in performance.
What does it mean to really live onstage? How can technical precision
support spontaneity and presence? How do you construct a line of
actions that can be repeated without becoming mechanical?

We will approach these questions with rigor and patience, skipping no
steps but driving straight to our individual limits and looking over
the edge. Participants are asked to arrive each day with a text, song,
or acting proposition to work on. This material can be chosen
specifically for the Action Lab, or it can be part of a role you have
played in the past or are currently working on.

Each session will begin with intense, playful physical work and group
singing, and then focus on the individual work described above.
Participants will develop their propositions through increasing layers
of precision, and learn to encounter themselves through exploration of
the chosen material. Our goal is to rediscover the essential act of
performance here and now.

$20 per session
Drop-in okay

Wednesdays 10am-1pm
Starting September 12, 2007

Thompson Studio
124 Thompson St. #13
Between Prince and Houston

Action Lab is led by Ben Spatz, Artistic Director, Urban Research
Theater.

www.UrbanResearchTheater.com

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