Embodiment and Transformation — Acting Intensive
Instructors: Seth Bockley & Maude Mitchell
3 day workshop, June 24-26 // 10am–2pm* // BCTR: 251 Huron St. Greenpoint
This three day intensive class, led by legendary downtown theater artist and actor/dramaturg Maude Mitchell (Mabou Mines) alongside writer/director/adapter Seth Bockley, will focus on embodiment, gesture, physical improvisation, and the actor’s imagination. We will provide performers with tools to increase their physical and vocal expressiveness, and challenge participants to take risks with their own monologue material as well as scenes from classic plays provided by the instructors. Don’t miss this chance to study with some of the city's most accomplished and imaginative practitioners. Get ready to play and take risks as you gain tools for expression, improvisation, and living truthfully inside characters far from your own experience.
CLASS BREAKDOWN:
2 hours of physical embodiment exercises (viewpoints, Laban, gesture, and shadow work) followed by 2 hours of monologue and scene study. For the first day of class please bring in a memorized monologue to work with, we will assign partner scenes and other appropriate texts for Days 2 and 3.
*Class will end at 3pm on the 26th
Instructors: Seth Bockley & Maude Mitchell
3 day workshop, June 24-26 // 10am–2pm* // BCTR: 251 Huron St. Greenpoint
This three day intensive class, led by legendary downtown theater artist and actor/dramaturg Maude Mitchell (Mabou Mines) alongside writer/director/adapter Seth Bockley, will focus on embodiment, gesture, physical improvisation, and the actor’s imagination. We will provide performers with tools to increase their physical and vocal expressiveness, and challenge participants to take risks with their own monologue material as well as scenes from classic plays provided by the instructors. Don’t miss this chance to study with some of the city's most accomplished and imaginative practitioners. Get ready to play and take risks as you gain tools for expression, improvisation, and living truthfully inside characters far from your own experience.
CLASS BREAKDOWN:
2 hours of physical embodiment exercises (viewpoints, Laban, gesture, and shadow work) followed by 2 hours of monologue and scene study. For the first day of class please bring in a memorized monologue to work with, we will assign partner scenes and other appropriate texts for Days 2 and 3.
*Class will end at 3pm on the 26th
Instructors: Seth Bockley & Maude Mitchell
3 day workshop, June 24-26 // 10am–2pm* // BCTR: 251 Huron St. Greenpoint
This three day intensive class, led by legendary downtown theater artist and actor/dramaturg Maude Mitchell (Mabou Mines) alongside writer/director/adapter Seth Bockley, will focus on embodiment, gesture, physical improvisation, and the actor’s imagination. We will provide performers with tools to increase their physical and vocal expressiveness, and challenge participants to take risks with their own monologue material as well as scenes from classic plays provided by the instructors. Don’t miss this chance to study with some of the city's most accomplished and imaginative practitioners. Get ready to play and take risks as you gain tools for expression, improvisation, and living truthfully inside characters far from your own experience.
CLASS BREAKDOWN:
2 hours of physical embodiment exercises (viewpoints, Laban, gesture, and shadow work) followed by 2 hours of monologue and scene study. For the first day of class please bring in a memorized monologue to work with, we will assign partner scenes and other appropriate texts for Days 2 and 3.
*Class will end at 3pm on the 26th
Maude Mitchell (Mabou Mines) has performed, taught, lectured, and explored on six continents. Acclaimed for her Obie award winning performance as Nora Helmer in Mabou Mines DollHouse, she did extensive dramaturgical work and co-adapted the script with legendary director/writer Lee Breuer. MMDH is the second most widely toured production in this century of Ibsen’s groundbreaking feminist work. (Maude reprised her performance as Nora in a film version produced by Arte for European television.) Her dramaturgical work includes: Un tramway nommé désir by Tennessee Williams; the first American play accepted into the historic Comédie Française’s repertoire to premiere at the Salle Richelieu. She is one of the co-creators of The Laramie Project, a catalyst for the implementation of hate crime legislation in America. Maude Mitchell trained with Sanford Meisner at The Neighborhood Playhouse, and is a graduate of Oberlin College Graduate. Fellowships: MacDowell (x3), Yaddo, Camargo, Hambidge, Sundance Theatre Lab (x3). Maude & Lee (d. 2021), artistic partners & spouses, worked together around the world for over two decades. In development: My pique-nique with Maude: An intimate exchange between two fast friends about death, grief, and love, from Hell’s Kitchen to Borneo.
Seth Bockley is a director and writer specializing in literary adaptation and new work development. Directing credits include King Gilgamesh (Under The Radar, NYC; Soulpepper Theatre, Toronto), site-specific Utopian epic More Perfect Places, NYT Critics’ Picks Wilderness and Basetrack Live with En Garde Arts (Abrons Arts Center, NYC), 2666 (with Robert Falls, Goodman Theater), Lauren Yee’s Samsara and Philip Dawkins’ Failure: A Love Story (Victory Gardens, Chicago); Jason Grote’s Civilization (all you can eat) and 1001; the clown play Guerra, with Mexico City-based troupe La Piara (toured Mexico, Colombia, and the U.S.) As a writer his works include King Gilgamesh, Rip Van Winkle, 2666 (adapted from the novel by Roberto Bolaño), Laika’s Coffin, February House (with Gabriel Kahane, Public Theater), and adaptations from stories by George Saunders: Jon and CommComm. He is currently working on a new musical about chatbots of the dead. More at sethbockley.com