Action Theater: The Improvisation of Presence
4 Day reTreat, March 25-28th, 2010
WORKSHOP: A SPLENDID MOMENT with Ruth Zaporah
Ruth is bringing her improvisation physical theater practice, Action Theater, to Madrona MindBody Institute and Port Townsend. Through action the practitioner learns about the present moment, how to be HERE, unveiling themselves to themselves, one moment at a time, one moment leading to the next. Ruth's exercises, physical, vocal and verbal, invite the practitoner into unknown yet uncannily familiar territories, territories of the embodied imagination. By examining awareness, play, relationship, stillness and silence, actions become enlightened, become fresh. The capacity for feeling is strengthened as are the roots and tools of expression. Participants experience fresh views of themselves, who they are, how they perceive and respond to the ordinary and how vast is their potential. The conceptual mind that insists on defining content learns to share with more spontaneous embodied and imaginative resources. The lights turn on exposing every moment as a splendid moment.This workshop is for the novice as well as the experienced, all those who relish living in a human body and like to move.
This awareness in action invites the possibilities of freshness intrinsic to improvisational action. These 4-days of method offers a map, a way to proceed. The workshop is appropriate for the novice, the explorer and the professional.
"Ruth Zaporah is a movement artist who has internalized a kinetic vocabulary to such an extent that she can listen to it and follow it wherever it takes her at any moment."
--Rita Felciano, SF Bay Guardian"
Workshop space is limited to 25.
RUTH ZAPORAH PROJECT VIDEO LINK- click here.
Limited work-trade scholarships available - please email Aletia@MadronaMindBody.com for information.
Tuition (covers four-days full of action theater, yoga and dance jams): $385 - REGISTER HERE.
On Campus Housing - at Fort Worden State Park:
- $29/per night shared bunkroom (3 nights)
- This Option is FULL - $40/per night private room (limited number available)(3 nights) FULL
- camping options also available
Limited scholarships available based on need. Please email info@MadronaMindBody.com for scholarship policy.
About Ruth Zaporah:
Ruth Zaporah is a New Mexico based performance artist, director and teacher. She is internationally known for her innovative work in the field of physical theater improvisation called Action Theater..
Zaporah spends much of her time on tour, performing and leading trainings in the U.S. Europe, Australia, Israel, and Asia. In 1994 she performed in theaters and refugee camps in Serbia and Croatia. In the spring 2000, she added Kosovo and Sarajevo to that itinerary.
Zaporah is a two time recipient of National Endowment Choreography Fellowships. In 1994 she was honored with a Sustained Achievement award by the San Francisco Bay Area Dance Association and most recently selected to be a U.S. Cultural Envoy..
Ruth's articles on improvisation have been regularly published in Contact Quarterly, a magazine for new dance forms. Her book, ACTION THEATER: THE IMPROVISATION OF PRESENCE, published by North Atlantic Books, is in its fifth printing.Several films about her and her work have recently been released. Go to www.ActionTheater.com for information.
Ruth's passion is reflected in her work, that we are each an expression of the natural world, a breath of the larger ecological system, that the lift of the hand and the anguished scream are perfect.
SCHEDULE:
March 25th: THURSDAY 6:30-9:30pm Action Theater
March 26th: FRIDAY 11- 5 pm Action Theater 8 - 11pm Movement Jam
March 27th: SATURDAY 11 - 5 pm Action Theater 7pm Potluck Dinner
March 28th: SUNDAY 8 - 9:30 Yoga 10 - 11:30 Ecstatic Dance 12 - 5pm Action Theater
In collaboration with Bcollective