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<div><font color="#000000"><b>We still have a few spaces left in each
of the following workshops at the Ko Festival of Performance in
Amherst, MA.</b></font></div>
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</font><font size="+1" color="#000000"><u><b>July 10-15<br>
</b></u><b>SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING: Designing from Non-Traditional
and Found Materials</b></font></div>
<div><font size="+1" color="#000000">with<b> USITT 06 RISING STAR
Justin Townsend</b> and<b> Shannon Scrofano</b> of Boston's TENT
Ensemble</font></div>
<div><font size="+1" color="#000000">Theatre can develop from visual,
as well as from textual or performative beginnings. Students will
learn to develop a vocabulary for making visually striking theatre
that combines materials, performers, and actions. Work will be created
using an "inside out" approach that links image and action
from its inception. In this work, the economy of means that is often
necessary from a budget point of view becomes a liberating factor.
Using inexpensive, non-traditional and found materials, the workshop
will culminate with an actual design and installation for a live
performance - the Ko Festival's 15th Anniversary Gala: THE KO KABARET.
Open to all theater makers.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Also:</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><u><b>July 17-19<br>
</b></u><b>RE-IMAGINING OUTREACH: Community Engagement Programming<br>
</b>with<b> Michael Rohd</b>, Artistic Director of Sojourn
Theatre</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Michael Rohd, author of<i> Theatre for
Community Conflict and Dialogue: The Hope Is Vital Training
Manual,</i> offers a three-day workshop mixing case studies of best
practices with active exploration of values, goals, and strategies for
looking at theater and civic engagement. How do healthy partnerships
and collaborations develop? What's the difference between audience
development and civic engagement? What types of processes support and
nurture ethical, mutually beneficial projects that reach beyond your
walls and intersect with populations that may not traditionally be
served by your programming? The work will focus on project planning,
partner-building, and arts-based civic dialogue practice.</font></div>
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</i><u><b>July 24-29<br>
</b></u><b>ACTOR ON THE ROAD: Encountering the Legacy of Grotowski's
Polish Theatre Lab<br>
</b>with<b> Kim Mancuso</b> and<b> Kermit Dunkelberg</b> of Pilgrim
Theatre<br>
An intensive, practical opportunity for performers, directors and
other theatre makers to explore Pilgrim Theatre's unique approach to
performance creation developed through years of work with members of
the Polish Laboratory Theatre, (Zbigniew Cynkutis, Zygmunt Molik, Rena
Mirecka, Jerzy Grotowski) and others on the continuum of experimental
theatre practice. Work will include: physical training (presence,
impulse, expressivity); vocal training, resonators, group sound,
approaching text as partner); and generating provocative performance
material. The actor is the source. Students will utilize body,
voice, imagination, experience, sense memory and association to seek
new forms of creative expression and go beyond their perceived
limits. The process will culminate in a brief final
presentation. Open to all levels of experience.<br>
<br>
<u><b>July 31-August 5<br>
</b></u><b>MASK PLAY: A Lecoq Intensive<br>
</b>with<b> Jennie Gilrain</b>, E'cole Lecoq Graduate and Touchstone
Ensemble member<font face="Verdana"> and</font><b> Mark
McKenna </b> E'cole Lecoq Graduate and Artistic Director of
Touchstone Theatre<br>
A six day, Lecoq-based intensive on discovering the levels and
structures of mask play. A mask demands that the actor support it,
fill it, be led by it. Pre-conceived ideas will not play.
Working with a variety of masks and styles, participants will hone
performance skills such as presence, sensory awareness, spontaneity,
clarity of gesture, and the ability to motivate, full-bodied physical
action. This journey into mask play will also address mask-making and
each student will leave the workshop with an individual maquette - a
base for customized masks. This rigorous master class is meant for the
experienced actor but also suitable for any serious student who wishes
to explore his or her expressive and creative ability.<br>
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<i><b>Workshops will be held from 10 am - 4 pm in Studio II of Webster
Hall on the Amherst College campus in Amherst, MA. The cost is
$350. Discounts are available for early bird registration and for
members of the Network of Ensemble Theatres, TCG Theatres and Actor's
Equity.</b></i></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><i><b>Optional room and board are available
on the Amherst College campus for an additional fee. </b></i><b>
For information or to register call (413) 427-6147 or visit
www.kofest.com</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>BOX OFFICE OPENS SOON for FESTIVAL</b>
which includes performances by<b> Ralph Lee's Mettawee River
Company,</b> a gala anniversary celebration,<b> THE KO KABARET</b>
with artists from the 1st 14 years of the Festival returning to show
their latest work<b>, Nicky Paraiso, Pilgrim Theatre, Wendy Woodson,
and Touchstone Theatre. See WWW.KOFEST.COM for more
info!</b></font></div>
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