Dear fellow Actors & Actresses,
Here is another bulletin with lots of interesting possibilities for
everybody, not only in Cork but in Dublin and other places around the
country. Brilliant stuff!
Best wishes,
Marcus
Dear fellow Actors & Actresses,
I am helping to organize 3 different Intensive workshops this summer in Barcelona based on the work of Jacques LeCoq.
The teachers are Simon Edwards & Marian Masoliver. They both trained with Jacques Le Coq in Paris and worked all around the world as performers, directors and drama teachers.
I have trained with them in the last two years and the quality was so high and the workshop so enjoyable, that I started helping them with the organization of the workshops because I wanted to get more people to know about them and go to train with them. Last year more than 25 people went to do these workshops from Ireland and the feedback from these participants has been fantastic throughout. It was a great success!!
Dear fellow Actors & Actresses,
A new year, a new bulletin ripe and ready with lots of interesting
possibilities. Hopefully something will grab your attention!
Best wishes,
Marcus
Dear Friends!
We are happy to announce after our great success of last year’s show’s
at the Halfmoon our comeback!
I am helping with the organization of a ‘A Sliver of Voice’ workshop in Cork for the middle of February. The facilitators are Maia Monaco and Guillermo Pessoa, from Buenos Aires, Argentina. During the month of February they will be in Ireland facilitating workshops and performing their show.
‘A Sliver of Voice’ is a workshop devised by prominent Buenos Aires performer, poet and singer Maia Monaco which focuses on exploring the colours, intensities and textures of the voice and on movement and contemporary dance techniques for expressing music and emotion. Monaco
shares her own devised techniques for sonic meditation, which she terms ‘the vibration of the infinite voice’, focussing on exercises in vocal technique and basic guidelines for improvisation that feed the imagination and amplify hearing.
Incorporating the techniques of Guillermo Pesoa to explore connections between music and theatrical performance, workshops will enhance the participants’ abilities to connect music, emotion and movement, and to improvise instinctively from music.
The workshop begins with bodily warm-ups and stretches to improve awareness of posture, relaxation and responsiveness. They then move on to exercises in vocal technique and basic guidelines of improvisation.
Different vocal qualities are explored such as ‘the voice in repose’, ‘the voice in speech’, ‘the animal voice’, ‘the agitated voice’, ‘the ritual voice’, with emphasise on breath and pulse as the basis of the voice, employing percussion accompaniment. Pesoa will introduce basic principles of musical analysis and composition; exploring music-based performance through a series of physical and vocal tasks and exercises based on rhythmic units, music dynamics, music structure and tempo.
Here is a link to a YouTube video of Maia Monaco performing, where you can listen to some of her work:
Workshop Details
When? : Saturday 14th of February, 2009
What time?: 10.30am to 16.30pm
Where?: Blackrock Castle Observatory, Cork
How much: €60 per participant.
How to book a place for this workshop:
If you are interested in booking a place for this workshop please do the following:
Contact me via email (marcusbale@gmail.com) asking to book a place for the workshop. I will provissionally book a place for you.(A booking fee of €20 will be required from all participants to be paid before the 20th of January, but I will send details on how to pay
this fee after provisionally booking the places).
If you need any more information, please dont hesitate to contact me: marcusbale@gmail.com
Hope you can make it , and please forward this information to anyone whom you think might find it interesting! Thanks!!
Best wishes,
Marcus
Marcus Bale
Snatch Comedy Improv Troupe
http://www.snatchcomedy.com
The Grove, Compass Hill, Kinsale,
Co. Cork, Ireland
Phone: 00353214772190
Mobile: 00353863173543
Email: marcusbale@gmail.com
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