TRAINING for the DYNAMIC PHYSICAL PERFORMER

Sometimes Sweaty. Often Playful. Very Close to Divine.

photo by Eric Melzer, design by Joanna and William Harmon

Physical Education (P.E.)

Live Action Set believes that with rigorous practice and purposeful play, the performing artist grows and the ensemble evolves. P.E. invites participants to share knowledge, hone skills, and expose themselves to new artistic techniques. P.E. workshops are led by top teaching artists in the performing arts, but primarily from theater and dance.

P.E. is open to people of all levels of experience who seek to improve their skills as performers, but is targeted at professionals in the performing arts. Participants are creative personalities who are ambitiously curious and committed to collaborative creation.

Content of P.E. workshops are determined by the teaching artists and can include a wide variety of styles and methods. Themes proposed by participants and drawn from Live Action Set works-in-progress may also inform content. A portion of P.E. sessions is sometimes devoted to creating material to be shown at informal presentations each month.

All material created is "open source," no one has sole ownership of an artistic idea or creation proposed in the training sessions. Everything is available for others to expand, manipulate, or use in another medium or venue, for the true sharing of knowledge places no limitations on creativity.

There are no P.E. workshops currently scheduled.

Past teaching artists have been

VANESSA VOSKUIL, JIM LICHTSCHEIDL, RYAN UNDERBAKKE, VLADAMIR ROVINSKY, KIMBERLY RICHARDSON, DARIO TANGELSON, LUVERNE SEIFERT, TYLER OLSEN, NOAH BREMER, THOMAS PRATTKI, RAYE BIRK, CANDACE BARRETT BIRK, AND GERALD MCDERMOTT.

RESIDENCIES

The tools for creation are invaluable and Live Action Set is available to share our knowledge with students and performing artists of all levels to help create performances through residencies that take a practical approach to collaboration. We draw upon our diverse backgrounds to offer workshops in ensemble play creation, contact improvisation, clown, treteaux and physical characterization.

Communication is essential to collaboration. Participants learn to build teams and work together as an ensemble as well as learn useful tools for creating performance material while engaging and challenging their skills as artists. We actively research and implement methods of collaboration in our own work because we believe that together we are able to make work we couldn't make alone.

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