LISPA - Naropa Alumni

Lispa Alum Charlote Ford '06, along with fellow American, Geoff Sobelle bring Flesh and Blood, Fish and Fowl to the Barbican Pit as part of the London International Mime Festival - Presented in association with barbicanbite11.   The pair won a Fringe First award at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 



London International Mime Festival

 

Grafted Cede & Theatre Témoin will be touring their take on The Odyssey. Nobody's Home, a co-production of the LISPA Alum companies, stars Will Pinchin (LISPA '06) and Dorie Kinnear Pinchin (LISPA '06).  The production is directed by Ailin Conant (LISPA '06) with music by Otto Muller.

"Highly physical, inventive and engaging, this is exciting new work with a strong central concept that takes mythic inspiration to explore post-traumatic stress to great effect."


~ Three Weeks*****



Tour dates:
Oct 31st - FIREHOUSE NORTH GALLERY (Berkeley, CA) - 12:00 pm
Nov 4th - 14th: WEST END STUDIO THEATER (Santa Cruz, CA) - Thurs - Sat, 8:00 pm; Sun 3pm.
Nov 8th & 9th - CUESTA COLLEGE (San Luis Obsipo, CA) - 7:30 pm show, doors open at 7:00pm
Nov 18th & 19th - COLGATE UNIVERSITY (Hamilton, NY) - Times and pricing TBA
Nov 21st - WELLESLEY COLLEGE (Wellesley, MA) - Times and pricing TBA


For more information: info@theatretemoin.com
Theatre Témoin
Grafted Cede

Hello My Dear Friends

I am inviting you to see a project I am a part of and have been for the past several months. It is a performance which combines shadow puppetry, live music and story telling by singer songwriter Elizabeth Blair from the folk noir group - House and Bird, live physical stunts and antics of and by Sandrobo of Eleffant Foot Theater Compaany.

Directed by - Masha Kore. Playing at Peter Jones Gallery Theater. We have only three shows left and would love to see you all and take you on a Journey of 'THE SOLDIER OF THREE WARS'.

A warm cup of tea from our Samovar will be waiting for you there. Help Yourself to a preview here - http://www.myspace.com/soldierofthreewars

To reserve a ticket, email: eleffant-foot@hotmail.com

Our Best Regards

Sandrobo

Hey folks,
hope you are all well and happy. Sorry for the shameless promotion but, I am in a very strong production of "Man for all Seasons" Playing the Common Man at the Connecticut Repertory Theater.
I would love it if any of you east coast of America people could come and check it out. It is poignant play given our current social and political state.
Teresa and I have a big house with lots of rooms so your welcome to crash and enjoy a beautiful New England fall in the country if you make it up this way. http://www.crt.uconn.edu/shows.htm#1
Hope you are well.
Lots of love,
Greg

Hi Everyone,

My film "Center of the Universe" premieres this Wednesday, September 24th, at 9pm EST on the Logo Channel. Check it out and then go on my website and click on the link to vote for the film so we can win first place.

Here's the info:

http://www.logoonline.com/schedule/?day=09%2F24%2F08 (Daily TV Schedule)

http://www.logoonline.com/shows/events/short_films/ (The Click Promo page)

Synopsis from IMDB: Haunted by a past relationship, Oscar decides to join a 'Cuddle Group'. Here he meets Aida - a woman determined to solve his problem. A story of heartbreak and loneliness in New York City.

And on that note -- Have a great autumn!

Yuval

Hello All,

I wanted to make sure you had information about our upcoming show, Reminiscence, at the Jackson's Lane Theatre in London. As some of you will know, the show is a devised piece, inspired by a case study from Oliver Sacks' book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.

It is the story of Mrs O'Connor, who in a bizarre neurological twist is transported to the surreal world of her memories. As her condition becomes increasingly difficult to fathom, Mrs O'Connor and her doctor go on a journey of discovery to the limits of science's ability to fully account for what happens in our minds, and to the limits of our ability to fully recapture the past.

Reminiscence is a piece of total theatre using live music (original compositions inspired by the folk melodies of Eastern Europe) and spectacular visuals to take the audience on a fantastical, poignant and ultimately moving journey through the mind.

There is a two for one offer on the 9th and 10th of September. See the attached flyer for more information.

Please forward this email along to anyone you know who might be interested.

Thanks, and I look forward to seeing you there!

Michael Brown

P.S.

FREE post-show discussion forum
14 and 17 September
Join a panel of scientists and members of the artistic team to find out more about temporal lobe seizures and the artistic processes involved in creating Reminiscence.

Here is what I have been up to:

BLAsT! is a new one woman musical created and performed by Keira McDonald with music and lyrics by Dafydd James.

BLAsT! is the story of a lady astronaut who blasted into outer-space and then drove from Houston to Orlando wearing a diaper. When she got there she blasted her love rival in the face with pepper spray!

All of the text is from interviews and the interrogation report. All of the music( save the patter song) is pure imagination...

I work-shopped this piece in Minneapolis with Jason Bohon and Dafydd James ( class of '05.) AND Katie Melby (class of '05) played instruments on the recording.

BLAsT! is touring Regina, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton and Victoria all summer. It will also be produced in Seattle at Theatre Off Jackson's SPF 3: Apply Liberally ( solo performance festival) in March.

I will be blogging all summer: http://BLAsTCanada.blogspot.com

Love, keira

Hello Everyone,

Here's info about my show. It's a great script/cast/production. Hope you can make it!

x Yuval

The debut piece from You Need Me, an international company of actors with a strong physical background, How It Ended is a tender and tragic exploration of marriage in an era of uncompromising expectations. Staged in the round with live music, the cast play with traditional storytelling techniques to explore a true story of cultural alienation and loneliness. The focus shifts from Wales during the Second World War to France in the immediate aftermath of liberation, keeping at its centre the fierce fading of a wartime romance. A hauntingly intimate story of love in decline.


Devised by the cast
Conceived and directed by Emily Watson Howes

Dear all

I am very pleased to invite you to a series of events that will happen in these coming weeks in New York City.
All the best to you

Giovanni Fusetti

NEW YORK CLOWN FESTIVAL

October 20th-21st26th - July 21, 2007

WORKING ON YOUR OWN CLOWN

A coaching workshops for clownswith Giovanni Fusetti

http://www.bricktheater.com/Fusetti

Tues, Oct 23 at 8:30pm

AN EVENING WITH GIOVANNI FUSETTI

Lecture-presentation
http://www.bricktheater.com/clown

and...

A collaboration with the Combustibles Theatre Company, NY
From Wednesday October 31st to Sunday November 4th

HUMAN TRASH

A theatrical exploration
of the American Archetype
of THE TRAMP

a workshop led by

Giovanni Fusetti

For further information please visit the web site:
www.giovannifusetti.com

and click on CALENDAR

Umbrella Birds

**** The Scotsman

CLAIRE SMITH

E4 UDDERBELLY'S PASTURE (VENUE 300)

THE ubiquitous Mark Watson turns up at the meeting point outside the purple cow to guide us to the venue, a Portakabin public toilet parked up in George Square.

But this show isn't about him, it's about his missus - aka Emily Watson Howes - who has written and performs in an all-girl sketch show set in a ladies' loo. It's an intimate affair that only ten audience members can see at once; while it sounds like a novelty show, though, the setting is actually a brilliant way of stringing together a series of sketches for a female cast.

Characters arrive, interact, and then leave again - just as they would do in a real toilet. A woman comes in to carry out a pregnancy test, a middle-class mother reassures her daughter after a dreadful play and, funniest of all, a stand-up comedienne, rehearsing for her first gig, enlists the help of a stranger to give her a crash course in how to deal with hecklers. There's also a strung-out Egyptologist, a traffic warden who's a mine of misleading celebrity gossip, and a couple of mini-storylines involving a charity mugger and a girl in a chicken outfit.

There's a fantastic cast of characters here, and with tight writing, strong characterisation and snappy delivery, the sketches are laugh-out-loud funny. An hour on a hard seat in a Portakabin is uncomfortable, but I'm already looking forward to telling people in a few years' time: "I saw Emily Watson Howes performing in a toilet in Edinburgh back in 2007."

Until 27 August. Today 4pm

20 August 2007

Nighty Knight, Manny Panny is a journey taken by one lonely man through an imaginative landscape of his own desire and fears: "Manny Panny loves a skeleton girl! All those bones and rotting teeth...gross!"

The Octopus League presents a comical new tale of love, dreams and seeing beneath the surface. Follow Manny Panny through his strange and colorful world as he embarks on a quest where he meets an adventurous knight, a hefty oracle, and a mad scientist who all help him see his love for who she truly is.

Created and performed by: Bobby Lee Dartt, Mark Hatfield, Tonya Malik, Claire Patton, Tim Rearick, Lucia Rich, Lauren Trojanowski, and Kjersti Webb.

Showtimes:
Monday Aug 20th - Friday Aug 24th 7:30pm
Saturday Aug 25th 1:30pm and 6:30pm

Boulder Public LibraryCanyon Theater
1000 Canyon Boulevard,
Boulder, Colorado

Hey there. Check out Jason's new site:

www.JasonBohon.com

Help me raise some cash to take Icy Sparks to the States!

Sunday 22 July 2007
18:00 – 23:00
Bar Kick
126-127 Shoreditch High St.
London

£4 donation

There will be drinking, dancing, table football (that's Foosball for some), cavorting, celebration, fun...

This party is to raise some cash to take my final LISPA project to New York in late September for further development and performance at the Performing the World Conference in October. I need to raise $8000 so please spread the word about the party to all of your friends!

Love
Jen and the Icy Sparks Project (Andy, Dorie, Robin, and Sabine)

Don Quixote and Sancho are two friends bound by their gullibility, resilience and love for adventure. They travel on the perilous roads of La Mancha, overcoming obstacles, fear, enchantments, engaging in battles, assisting maidens, getting beaten and prevailing, being fooled and never failing to carry on their famous dispute on the topic of knight errantry. The ever-present ‘wise man’ is writing his story. Dulcinea is weeping somewhere in Toboso, and nothing now can not stop the Knights fame, not even, the end of the show...

Players: Sandro Gvardioshvili, Masha Kore, Anton Tenser, Leslie Wacker
Origins of Eleffant-Foot players are diverse and all over the globe: they came from different places, they have been taught different things. Lecoq training, clown, puppetry, sound experimentations and storytelling are happily married in this production devised in joy and squabbles by all four members of the troupe.

Wine will flow and Fruit will fall from the vine into your hand, potato chips will also be served, for the post show gallery hanging outs.

@ Peter Jones Theater, 1806 W Cuyler

please reserve your tickets in advance through email, or phone, there will be 9 shows only in chicago.

773 425 7394

10$ Dough-nation, politelly asked, noone will be turned away, but you might be asked to walk backwards if there is no available seating.

Hi Lovely People -

It is with glee that I get to announce Giovanni Fusetti's return to Boulder, this fall, to lead two Clown Workshops!

The workshops are: September 4 - 26th: The Red Nose and October 1 - 14th: Clown's Life.

The deadline for registration is June 21st, and we already have accepted 3 students, with a max of 14, so hop to it, people!

A few notes: If you are a former student of his who just wants to take the advanced course, this is the last year that will be possible. And, if you just want to do The Red Nose - same thing. This is the last year you'll be able to take them separately. Also, this year's students get to perform multiple times, as the culmination of their studies, instead of just once.
So, you'll get to enjoy, learn, and grow as a result of really performing your clown.

Giovanni now has a great website (www.giovannifusetti.com) where you will
find: workshop location and schedule, course synopsis, fee, application, and myriad other details. The exact link to the Boulder workshops is: http://www.giovannifusetti.com/html/english/enghome.html.

Please email me, boulderbaron@gmail.com, if you have any questions...
Also, If you have leads on housing for Giovanni and/or a car/bike/ scooter to borrow, part-time work for the international and national students coming to town, house-sits, temporary sub-leases, extra rooms, etc, etc - please let me know. The generous help and hospitality you've given in the past has been so deeply appreciated by Giovanni and the participants. Thank you again, everyone, for being such a wonderful community:-)!

Looking forward to receiving your application soon, and to seeing your clown dance the boogaloo in the light of day...
xoooo
~ Liz

p.s. If you're getting lost on Giovanni's web site:
- From the link above (the Boulder International Clown School page) scroll
down to the the Red Nose workshop listing - click on it for more info,
and/or
- Note the menu at the top of the page, with the red background, and these
options: The School The Red Nose Advanced Applications.
Click on any of these!

Labels: Workshop

The Three Sticks Theatre Company recently performed in a benefit fundraiser for the MN Fringe Festival called Five Fifths of the Fringe.

The idea is to take a classic film and break it down into 5 sections, with each section dissected and reinterpreted by 5 different theatre companies. This year was Wizard of Oz and this is what Three Sticks did:

Dorothy- Adam Collignon
Glinda- Xavier Rice
Scarecrow and others- Katie Melby
Wicked Witch of the West- Jason Bohon
Lollipop Guild and others- Damon Brook
Lullaby League and others- Eric Holm
Mayor of Munchkin City- Stuart Melby
Coroner- Moe Perry
Barrister and musician- Andrew Lynch

Directed by Jason Bohon
Music by Andrew Lynch
Choreography Katie Melby

I just wanted to give a quick update.

I just directed Three Sticks in a fundraiser for the MN Fringe Festival. We had to do the 2nd portion of Wizard of Oz (Munchkinland through Scarecrow) in 15 minutes. (Brought back memories of the film exercise at Lispa.) I also recently performed in the Minnesota Orchestra's Peer Gynt and coached movement for the BFA Juniors in a production of Electra at the University of Minnesota. (These are the Juniors who just spent their fall semester at Lispa.) I am also a teaching artist with Upstream Arts (www.upstreamarts.org) where we use arts education to develop social and vocational skills in youth with disabilities. I'm doing some commercial work (when I can get it) and sent one for you to post if you want. About to start on a clown show with some other artists from Dell'Arte and Lecoq called Aftermath. If anyone does myspace, check out www.myspace/jdbohon and join me as a friend.

- JB

The Pearl's going to Romania!

We're taking part in B-Fit, the Bucharest International Theater Festival, in the Independent Theater division. We'll be performing in Bucharest on May 15, 16, and 17, so if anybody's in the area...check us out!

Here's a link to our Romanian page--see us get zoomed.

http://teatrulmetropolis.ro/spectacole_fit/pearl.html

love to all
Andrew