Links Hall February 2009 Winter Workshop Intensives
Starting this week, Links Hall will present our first ever Winter Intensives programming. Winter is the perfect time to get introspective, to research, define and refine one's artistic practice. Winter Workshop intensives were created for the express purpose of widening artistic practice and creating meaningful creative sparks. We have specifically invited seasoned teaching artists practicing a diversity of body based forms.
Pre-registration required for all workshops: www.linkshall.org
Why Suzuki?
Starting Monday, Jeremy Sher will conduct a series of workshops in the Suzuki method, a rigorous physical practice that assists actors, dancers and directors in understanding their corporeal awareness on stage, how to enliven and sense of presence during performance and integrating a deeper sense of physical awareness during the delivery of text.
Suzuki workshops are a great primer for the Suzuki and Viewpoints intensive that will be taught by internationally renowned SITI Company this August 3rd-14th at Links Hall. You can read more about Suzuki and viewpoints training in this article written by former Links Hall Artistic Associate, Barbara Whitney: http://www.americanrepertorytheatre.com/articles/1_3/dispute/siti.html
Jeremy Sher
Suzuki Method of Actor Training
Mondays, February 2, 9, 16, & 23, 6:15-8pm
$125
Sher, a professional actor in Chicago who has trained in Suzuki for nine years, teaches an introductory class in Suzuki, a powerful physical training technique drawing from ballet, martial arts, and Kabuki. No prior experience required.
Links Hall’s Move on Mondays
Jeremy Sher: Intro to Suzuki Training
Monday, February 23, 8-9pm
FREE (SOLD OUT)
Move on Mondays is Links Hall’s free, monthly forum that connects arts practitioners and the public through dialogue and performance practice. This month, learn about Suzuki Training in a hands-on lecture/demo led by Jeremy Sher. No experience necessary.
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Feeling as Investigation
Have you ever wanted a laboratory that could broaden the dialogue between your body, time and space? Acclaimed dance artists, Lisa Gonzales and Jennifer Kayle of the Architects in conjunction with Synapse Arts Collective offer an exciting three part workshop where a deep investigation of compositional structure allows participants to move towards more freedom and ownership over their improvisational dance making. http://www.architectsdance.org/company/company_page.html
Lisa Gonzales & Jennifer Kayle
Feeling into Form: A Motion Laboratory
Saturdays, February 7, 14, & 21, 12:30-3pm
$75 ($60 students)
Explore ways to compose new dance work through the balance of solo improvisation and a rigorous group practice. Presented by Synapse Arts Collective and led by Gonzales and Kayle, both teachers and founding members of improvisational performance company The Architects. Open to all movers with prior improvisation experience. http://www.synapsearts.com/
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Roy Who?
The Roy Hart Vocal Techniques and subsequent performance ensemble that was built around it derived its origins from the sounds of wounded soldiers in World War One. Students and performers of Roy Hart's embodied vocal techniques are often surprised to discover the extended range of their voices, creating a richer palate of performance choices from the dark to the sublime.
Based at the headquarters of the Roy Hart Theater and School in France, Carol and Saule are veteran teachers with over 20 years of practice with the form. This is a rare opportunity to study with some of the greatest teachers of this technique. Although professional singers and actors take and benefit from Roy Hart study, the workshop is open to anyone with a strong interest in taking risks and learning about their voice.
Anyone interested in learning more should check out the excellently written book by Noah Pikes: Dark Voices, The Genius of Roy Hart Theater.
Carol Mendelsohn & Saule Ryan
Roy Hart Embodied Voice Workshop
Saturday & Sunday, February 21 & 22, 12:30-5:30pm
at UIC Department of Performing Arts, 1044 W. Harrison St.
$175
In this highly physical workshop, participants will learn how Roy Hart Theatre voice work can help break through the artificial limits placed on the voice and enable fuller expression. Mendelsohn and Ryan have taught Roy Hart technique internationally for decades, and are the premier instructors of the form. Presented in collaboration with Department of Performing Arts, College of Architecture and the Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Behind the Mask
Paola Coletto-Kaplan’s workshop is based on the three forms of mask studied at the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq: http://www.ecole-jacqueslecoq.com/jacques_lecoq-biographie-uk.php?bg=01
These forms offer the performer an in depth understanding of their physical presence on stage. Paola is one of the most gifted and humorous teachers I have encountered. This workshop and study is not to be missed if you want to deepen and expand your physical vocabulary for the stage.
Paola Coletto-Kaplan
The Body of Mask
** POSTPONED**New dates are being scheduled and will be posted shortly**
This master class is a hands-on experience that provokes artists (actors, playwrights, directors, and designers) with a European-based, physical theatre approach toward mask performance and creation. Coletto-Kaplan was certified as a pedagogue under Lecoq’s personal direction at the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq.
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Keep on the look out for other exciting workshops and community programs as Links Hall hosts our third annual summer school July and August 2009.
05 February 2009
07 January 2009
Links Hall's January festival curators ruminate on the past, present, and future
When Does It or You Begin? (Memory as Innovation)
Festival of Writing, Performance, & Video
January 9 - Feburary 1, 2009
Curated by Amina Cain & Jennifer Karmin,
Links Hall Artistic Associates
PAST
Amina: I am made up of everything I remember, and of everything I don't. My memories don't make up the truth, but they make something. Last January I was in the audience for Method to Madness (curated by Kate Sheehy), another month long festival at Links Hall. I sat with my friend Rachel Tredon, who I will be performing with later this month, and watched the performances. Outside it was snowing, and inside Links it felt warm. For Twinkle by Nance Klehm, a starry night was made, and then inhabited, one oil lamp at a time. Spell Launcher and Love Has Brought Me to Despair by Rebecca Tennison and Aviva Steigmeyer brought me to...something...what was it? I felt so warm when I left. Couldn't writing events be like this too? This warm? This close to habitation?
Jen: Nine and a half years ago, I moved to Chicago. I didn’t think that I would stay here or anywhere. Time escapes. Waking up in the middle of a vivid dream and imagining the ending. It’s hard to remember exactly how I felt that first winter. My brother came to visit and painted the walls of my apartment red, blue, purple, yellow. The same building where I continue to live and create. Structures contain memory. For thirty years, art has been made at Links Hall. Something new and unexplainable. Sitting in the dark with groups of friends and strangers, we have experienced performance, readings, dance. Collective breathing that repeats.
PRESENT
Amina: It is a new year; this is a new festival; we are about to welcome a new president; I hope these are new times. For almost one year, Jen and I have been preparing for When Does It or You Begin? and it is almost upon us. I have started having anxiety dreams about the festival. In the first one, Jen and I quite awkwardly welcomed the audience. Tisa Bryant, who will be featured at the very end of the festival, came onstage at the beginning. What is a beginning? What is an end? Sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night I think about the festival, go through lists in my mind of what still needs to be done. Anxiety. And also excitement. The truth is that I think the festival is going to be wonderful. I am grateful to have the chance to work on it.
Jen: I believe in beginnings. Through art, our ideas evolve. At this time and place, I wanted to bring together all of my creative communities. Writers, artists, performers, and activists. We are designing a version of the world we want to live in – everyone in the festival, who supports it and attends. This is a gift. The opportunity is equally overwhelming and phenomenal.
FUTURE
Amina: I don't want to forget to acknowledge the things I can't see or perceive, and, therefore, remember. What is a memory? Teresa Carmody, week three festival particpant writes, "A memory is a lying truth felt true." Do our memories make a place for us to inhabit? Can we inhabit truth? Can we inhabit lying? In the months ahead, Jen and I hope to collect writing from the participants of When Does It or You Begin? so that we can make a book. We hope to know where we are when we remember.
Jen: My memory feels part of me yet I can't control it. I often remember things I wish I had forgotten and forget things I wish I could remember. So, how will this festival be remembered? We have invited a team of video artists to produce creative documentation. Utilizing a variety of approaches, the end result will be to represent the diverse and complex concepts of memory through video. All completed video pieces will be screened at art spaces in Chicago and Los Angeles during 2009, ideally becoming part of a DVD project. Video artists include: Carrie Olivia Adams, Wonjung Bae, Ania Greiner, Jason Guthartz, Jeff Harms, Gretchen Hasse, Kurt Heintz, Todd Mattei, Amarnath Ravva, Bryan Saner, and Casey Smallwood.
Festival of Writing, Performance, & Video
January 9 - Feburary 1, 2009
Curated by Amina Cain & Jennifer Karmin,
Links Hall Artistic Associates
PAST
Amina: I am made up of everything I remember, and of everything I don't. My memories don't make up the truth, but they make something. Last January I was in the audience for Method to Madness (curated by Kate Sheehy), another month long festival at Links Hall. I sat with my friend Rachel Tredon, who I will be performing with later this month, and watched the performances. Outside it was snowing, and inside Links it felt warm. For Twinkle by Nance Klehm, a starry night was made, and then inhabited, one oil lamp at a time. Spell Launcher and Love Has Brought Me to Despair by Rebecca Tennison and Aviva Steigmeyer brought me to...something...what was it? I felt so warm when I left. Couldn't writing events be like this too? This warm? This close to habitation?
Jen: Nine and a half years ago, I moved to Chicago. I didn’t think that I would stay here or anywhere. Time escapes. Waking up in the middle of a vivid dream and imagining the ending. It’s hard to remember exactly how I felt that first winter. My brother came to visit and painted the walls of my apartment red, blue, purple, yellow. The same building where I continue to live and create. Structures contain memory. For thirty years, art has been made at Links Hall. Something new and unexplainable. Sitting in the dark with groups of friends and strangers, we have experienced performance, readings, dance. Collective breathing that repeats.
PRESENT
Amina: It is a new year; this is a new festival; we are about to welcome a new president; I hope these are new times. For almost one year, Jen and I have been preparing for When Does It or You Begin? and it is almost upon us. I have started having anxiety dreams about the festival. In the first one, Jen and I quite awkwardly welcomed the audience. Tisa Bryant, who will be featured at the very end of the festival, came onstage at the beginning. What is a beginning? What is an end? Sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night I think about the festival, go through lists in my mind of what still needs to be done. Anxiety. And also excitement. The truth is that I think the festival is going to be wonderful. I am grateful to have the chance to work on it.
Jen: I believe in beginnings. Through art, our ideas evolve. At this time and place, I wanted to bring together all of my creative communities. Writers, artists, performers, and activists. We are designing a version of the world we want to live in – everyone in the festival, who supports it and attends. This is a gift. The opportunity is equally overwhelming and phenomenal.
FUTURE
Amina: I don't want to forget to acknowledge the things I can't see or perceive, and, therefore, remember. What is a memory? Teresa Carmody, week three festival particpant writes, "A memory is a lying truth felt true." Do our memories make a place for us to inhabit? Can we inhabit truth? Can we inhabit lying? In the months ahead, Jen and I hope to collect writing from the participants of When Does It or You Begin? so that we can make a book. We hope to know where we are when we remember.
Jen: My memory feels part of me yet I can't control it. I often remember things I wish I had forgotten and forget things I wish I could remember. So, how will this festival be remembered? We have invited a team of video artists to produce creative documentation. Utilizing a variety of approaches, the end result will be to represent the diverse and complex concepts of memory through video. All completed video pieces will be screened at art spaces in Chicago and Los Angeles during 2009, ideally becoming part of a DVD project. Video artists include: Carrie Olivia Adams, Wonjung Bae, Ania Greiner, Jason Guthartz, Jeff Harms, Gretchen Hasse, Kurt Heintz, Todd Mattei, Amarnath Ravva, Bryan Saner, and Casey Smallwood.
19 December 2008
Welcome to the Links Hall BLOG!
Links Hall is pleased to officially launch our Inside the Studio blog, where you can read about the inspiring, innovating, invigorating work that is being developed and performed in Links Hall's small but mighty studio at 3435 N. Sheffield Avenue in Lakeview, Chicago. We will update the blog monthly, with articles from different members of our community each time--to give our readers the inside scoop on what happens within those four walls 24 hours/7 days a week/year 'round!
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