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…More Remarkable Clowns
This continues from my blog titled ‘Meetings With Remarkable Clowns”.One of the world’s greatest clowns who also was one of the greatest women clowns, was Lotte Goslar (1907-1997). I saw her company perform, and her solo show as well, and met her about June 1975. One of my most important teachers was from Germany. He was…
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Lecoq – Complements and Criticism
Let’s give credit where credit is due. Copeau and Stanislavsky changed the world of theatre and acting. Everyone else follows in their giant footsteps even if the followers were reactionary. Lecoq in his 2002 (published in English after his death) book acknowledges that he was particularly influenced by Copeau by being in the troupe of…
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“Shakespeare’s Clowns” workshop with Ira Seidenstein
“Shakespeare’s Clowns” is one of my new workshops launching in 2011. “Shakespeare’s Clowns” a weekend Quantum Clown workshop will assist any actor, clown, teacher or director to expand their understanding of the true and often hidden nature of Shakespeare’s extensive use of clowns. The format in this introductory weekend has six-parts:A) BodyB) StagecraftC) Voice, text,…
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Male-Female the yin/yang of Theatre – key principle in The Seidenstein Method
Male-Female the yin/yang of Theatre – key principle in The Seidenstein Method After many years in Theatre I saw a pattern in my devised projects was about men & women and their relationship. It is known that every person has both feminine and masculine qualities. This is yin/yang, ida/shushumna, chesed/gevurah, Krishna/Radha all codifications in various…
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The Seidenstein Method
THE SEIDENSTEIN METHOD HISTORICAL CONTEXT We are post-modern practitioners. Culturally we have experienced Robert Wilson, Robert Lepage, Butoh, Julie Taymor, Pina Bausch, Cirque Du Soleil, Batsheva Dance, Peter Stein, The Globe Theatre, Dogma Films, Arienne Mounouchkine, Marie Chouinard, Michael Clark, Marcel Marceau, The Ballet Trocodero, Taduez Kantor, Tadashi Suzuki, Katsu Ohno. We have inherited the…
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Training Actors, Clowns, Directors – What works, how and when?
Tough love. How to address the Emperor’s New Clothes in the training of Actors, Clowns, Directors? Dario Fo attempted this in his book “Tricks of the Trade”. There he had a chapter “A Master With Whom I Disagree”. Here I am assuming that you know the story of The Emperor’s New Clothes and even understand…
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A Life in Acting and Clown
In the finale of Cirque Du Soleil’s Corteo – December 2007 something shifted in my life. During our company bow in front of a full-house standing ovation, at the request of my friend and colleague Jeff I went into the center of the stage. As I rose, I went into an altered state of consciousness.…