Healing Through Theatre in Bali

Purnati Arts Centre Bali

Brisbane, Australian drama therapist Margi Brown Ash joins Per Brahe and Aole T. Miller for a 14 day theatre workshop at Purnati Center for the Arts in Bali, Indonesia. Using Per Brahe's original masks and development of Michael Checkov technique and Aole T. Miller's voice and acting training with Fitzmaurice Voicework and archetype masks, participants will build ensemble, and employ character development through body, voice and language.

This exciting healing through theatre workshop combines Western and Eastern philosophy exposing participants to the modern theatre. While building on the transformative work of Per Brahe and Aole T. Miller, Margi Brown Ash will provide the artist/psychologist and counselor with experiential processes to develop awareness of how one presents their selves in the world.

We welcome actors, directors, writers, instructors and therapist to join us in this innovative process of training human beings in the arts. Participants will also train daily in the ancient Gambuh opera, which is a full expression of body and voice using dance, singing, and music. All Balinese dance is influenced by the basic forms of the Gambuh. The purpose of the Gambuh training is to challenge the restrictive constraints of the ego through the metaphysical dancing gestures of this ancient court dance. The most important element of Balinese dance is that one must have a light heart free from judgment in order to fully commit to the intricate physical vocabulary. Whenever the ego comes in during the dance, balance is immediately lost. The Balinese way of life is centered on balance.

The workshop will be held over a period of two weeks at the Purnati Center for the Arts near Ubud, the arts capital of the island. There is a presence and grace that every artist aspires to in Bali. Every Balinese person is an artist in some way because they believe to make art serves God. Your senses will be inundated daily with thousands of complex images that will activate, rejuvenate, and heal your spirit while bringing you closer to the purest awareness of your inspiration and healing.

The Purnati Center for the Arts is the international hub for prominent artists from around the world to work. It is a securely guarded full service arts complex, with two training halls, an amphitheater, and a swimming pool, hidden away in the village of Batuan on the banks of a sacred river where the Balinese retrieve their holy water. All fresh organic meals are prepared daily by the center's executive chief. The rooms are two single bed dwellings that are prepared daily by the staff. There will be an extra charge of $600USD for single room

Due to Ozfrank's local and international performance commitments in 2009 new training arrangements are now in place. The 'old system' of regular Monday and Wednesday Training sessions, previously made available to all, is no longer in place. Ozfrank is now offering regular monthly intensives for all current trainees, students of theatre and dance, theatre professionals wanting to gain further skills and all others interested in East/West fusion theatre practice.
N.B. Any of you who are interested in being considered for participation in Ozfrank productions in the future should plan to attend every monthly intensive to gain the necessary physical and vocal skills. After you have gained the requisite skills you will be invited to participate in regular company training and rehearsals and to participate in future productions.
Looking forward to seeing you at the next three day intensive......

Ozfrank’s actor training system is for those who wish to engage in an exploration of excellence within a deeply personal performance paradigm……

Friday session will be 6pm-8.30pm (training only) followed by Saturday and Sunday sessions 4.30pm to 8.30pm.These will include a 2.5 hour training session, a short ‘food’ break, followed by a trawl through various videos of productions by Japanese theatre master Tadashi Suzuki & visual artist/Polish theatre director Tadeusz Kantor interspersed with conversation & discussion!

Expand your horizons……..

PlayMoves

Movement Workshop for Performance

Anna Yen

November 24 –28, 2008
Monday – Friday,  10am – 2pm
at
Metro Arts 109 Edward Street, Brisbane.
$220 / $190 Early Bird (if paid by October 16, 2008)

This workshop is for performers, directors, movement and drama teachers & students. We will focus on playfulness, presence and complicity. It is inspired by the work of Monika Pagneux, a renowned European theatre teacher, whose theme is the physical, vocal and personal freedom of the performer. It includes combining the Feldenkrais Method’s Awareness Through Movement work with ensemble exercises and games in innovative ways to assist the performer expand their creative possibilities, playfulness, pleasure, complicity and ensemble skills. We will also explore some of Monika’s new physical exercises for creating text.

Anna Yen
Anna is a movement teacher, performer and director who trained with Monika Pagneux in Europe and Australia, including attending her pedagogy courses in Paris and Barcelona. Inspired by Pagneux, Anna trained as a Feldenkrais Method® Practitioner, graduating in 2000. Anna is keen to share Pagneux’s work and in doing so, deepen her own investigation of how we as performers / creators can be more awake and present in every moment, ready to play.  A highlight of Anna’s work is her acclaimed one-woman show ‘Chinese Take Away’ and its film adaptation, which has taken her to festivals in Asia, Europe and USA. Anna is in the new comic trio, ‘Los Lunch Dates’. Her collaborative physical / visual work was part of ‘Undiscovered Country’ at the OzAsia Festival. Anna performed with Rock’n’Roll Circus, Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre Co, La Boite, QTC and studied with Pagneux, Philippe Gaulier, Nanjing Acrobatic Troupe, Shanghai Circus School and Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre Summer School. Anna has taught for QUT, Uni of Southern Qld, Uni of Qld, Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts, Vulcana Women’s Circus, QTC. Anna directed shows for UQ, Vulcana Women’s Circus, Backbone Youth Arts, QUT (TABOO), and was Assistant Director on AWGIE Award winning ‘Kese Solwata ‘ for Out of the Box Festival. Anna received a Churchill Fellowship 2002.

Bookings and Enquiries: Anna  ph 07 3846 1651 mobile  0417 623 886
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Come One!  Come All!  To the April Moulin Beige!  THU 17TH APRIL, The Joynt, Cnr Montague Rd & Hope St, West End, Doors open 7pm, show starts 7.30pm.  This month's line up includes:  The Strong Lady - her final show in Oz before heading over to work the European Summer Circuit, Melinda Buttle- Brisbane's hottest stand up who just won the Triple J Raw Comedy State Finals, Resident MC Liz Skitch, Resident Musician Evan Dean, The Clowning greatness of Allen Laverty and some hot musical comedy by THEM4GUYS (Tim Dashwood and his mates). Prize for best dressed (dapper/ dressy or cross).  Be there or be somewhere else but not having as much fun as us!

Cheers, Liz

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