RasaBoxes Training Programs, May 2008, NYC

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Below is information about this summer's Rasaboxes training.

it's a great opportunity to experience this amazing work!

through play, fun and performance training, you have the chance to explore Schechner's work of " embodied emotions " , increase awareness to body language and bodily sensations.

more and more drama therapists are using this technique in their work, so now it's your turn.

(besides, it's simply a great way to start the summer!)

as far as i know the date are set, but the hours are still undecided, so it depends on the participants' convenience!!

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News: May 2008 RasaBoxes Training

Training is offered in the RasaBoxes exercises and in work related to its practice. Participants develop their skill set in this psychophysical, sensory approach to working with the expression of emotion and with archtypal, energetic patterns. Rigorous daily training includes hatha yoga, extensive breath, voice, and movement work with an emphasis in applying the RasaBoxes work toward performance composition.

Train in the RasaBoxes exercises in NYC!

When: May 19-23, RasaBoxes Week I

May 26-30, RasaBoxes Week II

Where:Bushwick Starr Theatre 207 Starr Street (between Irving + Wyckoff) in Brooklyn, NYvisit http://www.thebushwickstarr.org for directions to the space

Info and Registration: please contact rasaboxes@...

$$: RasaBoxes Week I and II are $275 each, or you can take BOTH for $500 (recommended)

Description:RasaBoxes Week I is an introductory course for those new to the RasaBoxes exercises, and for those of us who want a refresher in the basics.

RasaBoxes Week II is a continuation and expansion of Week I. Participants will also develop solo and ensemble generated performance compositions based on the RasaBoxes material. Prerequisite: RasaBoxes Week I or at least three days of RasaBoxes training in any other workshop.

The workshops are designed to accommodate a range of skill levels and interests of professionals and students including actors, directors, performance artists, musicians, choreographers, playwrights and drama, movement, and dance teachers and/or therapists. Both weeks are taught by a Murray Cole.

What Are the RasaBoxes?

Devised by Schechner, the RasaBoxes exercises are based on ideas drawn from several sources including: Antonin Artaud's challenge that the actor be " an athlete of the emotions " , from the classical Indian treatise on performance called the Natyasastra, and contemporary scientific studies on emotion. The RasaBoxes exercises comprise a psychophysical, emotion-based approach that begins with finding physical form for basic emotional-energetic archetypes (rasas), through the use of body and the breath. The exercises incorporate sound, movement, relating to objects and others, language and text, and finally to scenework and the layering and scoring of rasas to create complex characters, to explore and compose scenes, to create choreography and entire performances. The RasaBoxes is an improvisational, rather than codified approach, offering specific tools and techniques for finding truthful, present, fully embodied emotional specificity through direct physical engagement. It integrates rather than separates acting, movement and voice, engaging the whole performer in one approach.

RasaBoxes Instructor a Murray Cole

Cole served as CoDirector of Education for East Coast Artists (ECA), and has taught the ECA Summer Workshop at NYU with colleague Michele Minnick from 1999 to 2005 (and in 2008). She was Program Coordinator and Instructor of ECA's Summer RasaBoxes Training Intensive at Ithaca College (2005-06) and at the Dell' Arte International School of Physical Theatre in Blue Lake, CA (2005-08). She will return to Ithaca College in the fall as a full time acting teacher in their BFA Acting and Musical Theatre program.

Cole has co-conducted RasaBoxes workshops at Dartmouth, Rutgers and Cornell and the Dell' Arte International School of Physical Theatre, and has presented the work at conferences including Concordia University in Montreal (2000), Ege University in Izmir, Turkey (2003), the International PSi conference in Singapore (2004), The International Society for Researchers on Emotion Conference (2004), and for the Association for Theatre Movement Educators Colloquium (2005).

She has also taught, directed or coached productions at New York University, Hofstra, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Interlochen National Arts Camp, Trollwood Performing Arts Camp, Fargo, ND, and the Governor's Magnet School for the Arts of Norfolk, Virginia.

She holds a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College and an MFA in Acting from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. She is a member of Actors Equity.

Publications: " The Actor As Athlete of the Emotions " , by Michele Minnick and a Murray Cole in Movement For Actors, edited by Potter, Allworth Press, 2002. " Rasaesthetics " , by Schechner with sidebars by Michele Minnick and a Murray Cole, TDR, Fall 2001, and Performance Theory, Routledge, 2003.

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