TheaterLab Presents Workshop Hosted by Carlo Altomare, 4/24

TheaterLab will present an acting workshop hosted by Carlo Altomare. The Objective Acting Workshop will be an introduction to the non-fictional aspects of the art of acting. The workshop will take place April 24 from 11:00am to 5:00pm.

This workshop is dedicated to the understanding and practice of chance operation in the art of acting. It explores how physical experience connects to the conscious and unconscious mind, and how that experience creates a new vocabulary for the art of acting. Like an alchemist, the actor separates the elements of experience and recombines them in real time, to rekindle the possibility of creative address to a living audience.

Directed by Carlo Altomare, the intensive session will engage each participant in an alternating practice of technique and creative work through the physical studies of Meyerhold's Biomechanics and the rhythmical and linguistic ‘etudes' of Jazz acting developed by Mr. Altomare with his company at Theaterlab.

The goal of this workshop is to introduce theatre artists to a vision of the stage where the actor is a primary creative force, capable of composing in real time for an audience.

"A new theatre for a new millennium begins with re-imagining the art of the actor. Contemporary consciousness suggests an experiential complexity beyond the convention of psycho-emotional ‘believability'. The audience lives in that more complex world, and so should the actor. What does this portend for actors training, technique, and the practice of our art? " - Carlo Altomare

Carlo Altomare was a member of The Living Theatre from 1973-1980, acting in the plays of The Legacy of Cain cycle and composing music for The Dismantling of The Money Tower and Prometheus. He is the founder of The Alchemical Theatre in New York (1981-). The Alchemical Theatre presented the world premiere of There Is No More Firmament by Antonin Artaud in 1983 and devised an original piece, Pure War/The Madness of the Day based on the writing of Paul Verilio and Maurice Blanchot. He returned to the LT in the late 80's to compose and perform the music for The Tablets and I and I. He is co-founder and artistic director of Theaterlab performance space at 137 W 14th St. where he teaches Meyerhold's Biomechanics and Jazz Acting, a new form of non-fictional acting. He is co-director, with Orietta Crispino, of the Actors Research Group, which performed the first Jazz Acting piece: Appearance - A Suspense in Being in 2006.

The cost of the workshop is $50. Admission to the workshop may be purchased online at www.theaterlabnyc.com or by calling 212-929-2545.

For more information, visit www.theaterlabnyc.com.

 

 

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