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Mark the date! mask workshop ... |
| Posted by Julie Fraser (julie) on Dec 22 2019 |
Upcoming workshops
NWTC is proud to announce a weekend of mask techniques with Mitch Mitchelson!...
“I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life,
on a re-birth as something not one’s self.”
William Butler Yeats
Workshop 1
“An introduction and exploration of mask work”
Saturday, 29 February 2020, from 15.00 until 18.00
Venue tbc
Open to all adults (16+), working language English
Cost: NWTC members EUR 50 non-members EUR 60
A wonderful opportunity to introduce and explore how actors can use masks to enhance their training and story-telling. In this first, three-hour session, tutor Mitch Mitchelson, will take us through the different ways in which masks have been used over the centuries. Mitch explains, “Masks are tools that allow actors to excavate their craft in different places as it has its roots in the early emergence of theatre itself. Masks are transformational and encourage an actor’s embodiment, the spontaneity of play , the triggering and channeling of impulses and the development of an actor’s range of expression, from the primal rhythms of Commedia, the cabbages and kings of Balinese Topeng, the passion of clown, the minimalism of Noh theatre and the articulation of action of the Larval mask. The workshop will be accessible and flexible in its approach, with the aim of encouraging and facilitating non coercively a theatre lab of discovery with reference to current theatre practice.”
Workshop 2
“Masks with text, without text and as text. ”
Sunday, 1 March 2020 from 10.00-13.00 and 14.00-17.00
(please note: lunch is not provided)
Venue:tbc
Open to all adults (16+) working language English
Cost: NWTC members EUR 90 / non-members EUR 100
Either as a continuation of Saturday’s work, or as a stand-alone workshop, Mitch will run an exploratory one-day course, focusing on the power of transformation through masks. He says, “Half- masks naturally lead themselves to language, encouraging at times a vocal equivalent of a mask. Other full-face masks cannot speak, can they can be eloquent in their movement and expression. Sometimes they can act as signifiers in the text. Other times they can be accompanied with text by a non-masked person. All to be explored.”
Special price for both workshops
NWTC members EUR 130 / non-members EUR 150
Space limited: reserve your place by:
- writing to Rose@nwtc.lu to register and
- paying the appropriate workshop fee to NWTC’s account (IBAN account LU80 0030 0960 1115 0000 with BGL BNP Paribas (BGLLLULL)), giving your name and workshop (masks) as the reference)
See you there!
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