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Master Class with Pig Iron Theatre Company
NET invites you to participate in a two day Master Class with Pig Iron Theatre Company!
NEUTRAL MASK AND RED-NOSE CLOWN
March 2nd & 3rd
12pm - 6pm
East LA Rep(1350 San Pablo St. Los Angeles, CA 90033)
Pig Iron Theatre invites participants to explore the two guiding principles of Pig Iron's collaborative work: the Neutral Mask and the Red-Nose Clown.
Explore the fundamental building blocks of theatre itself through work on the Neutral Mask. A vital tool for all performers, this work trains students to develop a heightened presence, a deep awareness of the demands of the stage, an ability to create new worlds onstage and a training that connects the body, breath and gaze. The Neutral Mask prepares performers for the rigors of theatrical creation work and offers an appreciation for the body's expressiveness onstage.
The Red-Nose clown is a fragile and exhilarating territory that allows performers to indulge in "play" and to utilize their own body and imagination toward creating an original clown character that is unique in the world. This is an adventure into idiocy, virtuosity, ridiculousness, absurd logic and comic vulnerability. The clown breaks all the rules of theatre, proposing a new order in which the performer sees the audience, and in which the clown speaks the simple truth that all human beings fail gloriously and often hilariously. Supplied with little else than a red nose and the body that each performer has inherited, this half of the workshop will exploit the students' unique way of encountering the world.
PRICE
For two day workshop:
$150 (Non-NET Members)
$100 (NET Members)
There are also a limited number of scholarships available for currently enrolled students under 25 years old ($50 rate after scholarship).
** TO REQUEST THE NET MEMBER DISCOUNT OR A STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP, please contact NET Program Associate Park Cofield (pcofield@ensembletheaters.net).Discounted slots and scholarships will be awarded on a first-come, first-served, rolling basis.
-Space is limited to 20 participants.
-Participants are required to attend the full session on both days.
ABOUT PIG IRON THEATRE COMPANY
Founded in 1995 as an interdisciplinary ensemble, Pig Iron Theatre Company is dedicated to the creation of new and exuberant performance works that defy easy categorization. In the past 17 years the company has created 26 original works and has toured to festivals and theatres in England, Scotland, Poland, Lithuania, Brazil, Ireland, Italy, Romania and Germany. Pig Iron calls itself a "dance-clown-theatre ensemble" - their focus moves from character to space to contact with the audience. Individual pieces have been called "soundscape and spectacle," "cabaret-ballet," and "avant-garde shadow puppet dessert-theatre." Currently, Pig Iron is composed of 3 artistic directors and 4 company members, in addition to an administrative staff and board of directors. The company made Philadelphia its permanent home in 1997; though individual pieces are often developed in residency at other theatres or at universities, they premiere all of their work in their hometown of Philadelphia.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Gabriel Quinn Bauriedel is a co-founder and Co-Artistic Director of the OBIE Award-winning Pig Iron Theatre Company. Since 1995, Quinn has been one of the leading artists with the company, co-creating nearly all of the company's 25 original works of theatre and touring them to venues and festivals in Brazil, Germany, Scotland, England, Romania, Poland, Peru, Italy, Ukraine, Lithuania and Ireland, among others. Additionally, Quinn and Pig Iron regularly present their work in New York City and have toured throughout the States including engagements in San Francisco, Washington, DC, Princeton, Providence, Cambridge, Atlanta, Tampa, Logan (Utah), among others. He has directed, designed and performed with the company since its inception. Quinn received an Outstanding Direction Barrymore Award nomination for Welcome To Yuba City, which was nominated for 6 Barrymores including Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Overall Production. Quinn received an Outstanding Choreography Barrymore for his collaborative work on Cafeteria and also won for Outstanding Ensemble for Mission To Mercury. The company has been recognized as "one of the few groups successfully taking theatre in new directions" by the New York Times who also named Chekhov Lizardbrain, in which Quinn performs and was one of the co-creators, as one of the Top 10 Productions of 2008. Pig Iron has been named Theatre Company of the Year by the Philadelphia Weekly, City Paper and Philadelphia Magazine. Welcome To Yuba City was featured on the cover of American Theatre magazine in February 2010, as was The Tragedy of Joan of Arc (January, 2000) which Quinn directed. Quinn was a Henry Luce Fellow in Bali, Indonesia in 2000-2001 where he served on the faculty of the State College of Indonesian Arts and studied Balinese dance, mask work and music. In 2002, he and his Pig Iron co-artistic directors (Dan Rothenberg and Dito van Reigersberg) were named Pew Fellows in Performance Art. In 2007, he received one of 6 national Fox Foundation Actor Fellowships.
Quinn has taught courses in acting and movement theatre since 2001 at Swarthmore College. Additionally, he has been on the faculty of the Headlong Performance Institute since its inception in 2007 and has taught at Princeton University since 2005. Quinn has taught workshops at the Alternative Theatre Festival in Budapest, Les Kurbas Theatre in Lviv, Ukraine, Princeton University, Stanford University, UVA, Wesleyan university, Utah State, Georgetown, American University, and UPenn, among other workshops. Additionally, he has taught professional theatre training workshops in Philadelphia, New York, and San Francisco for the past 12 years. Quinn is the School Director for the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training, a 2-year graduate level program in physical and devised theatre.
This session is supported by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles
Photos are provided courtesy of Pig Iron Theatre Company and Jacques-Jean Tizio/jjtiziou.net
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LocationEast LA Rep
1350 San Pablo Street
Los Angeles, CA 90033
United States
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| Minimum Age: 18 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
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