devised theatre & ensemble practice
with Temple Crocker and Barbara Lanciers
The training - both highly physical and deeply contemplative - draws on the principles of various actor training methods and physical disciplines including Viewpoints, Suzuki, Yoga and The Alexander Technique. Throughout the week the group will create theatrical compositions utilizing elements provided and generated by the participants, including original and appropriated texts, songs and movement, objects and installations. The mornings will be devoted to ensemble training and the afternoons will be dedicated to the creation of theatrical compositions.
TEMPLE CROCKER
is a theater artist and educator. She makes interdisciplinary and collaborative performance works as well as objects and installations. Before moving to Baltimore, Maryland in 2003 Temple lived and worked in San Francisco where she performed with various theater and dance companies including Campo Santo, Art Street Theater, Torque Dance Theatre and Pearl Ubungen Dancers and Musicians.
In 1996 she co-founded the experimental performance ensemble STRANGEFRUIT with Annie Kunjappy and Rowena Richie. STRANGEFRUIT works collaboratively to create handcrafted performance works. The research process that accompanies the making of a piece draws on variety of sources including literature, philosophy, the natural and social sciences, alternative medicine, homespun recipes and visual art. Weaving together personal and universal mythologies STRANGEFRUIT explores the intersection of whimsy and insight addressing themes such as the curious nature of identity, and the phenomena of presence and memory. STRANGEFRUIT has created six original performances including The Heat Death of the Universe based on the science-fiction story by Pamela Zoline and Sewing Lessons, a surrealist lifecycle based on the lives and art of Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington.
Temple’s first performance in Baltimore was a collaboration with visual artist/performer Jackie Milad at the first Transmodern Age Festival in the spring of 2004. Since then she has presented work at spare room, CHELA, Creative Alliance and the Baltimore Theatre Project. For the past three years she has had an ongoing relationship with the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in New York presenting new work at the Summer Series in 2005 and acting in Richard Foreman’s ZOMBOID in the spring of 2006. Temple is currently a member of the theater faculty at Towson University and University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
BARBARA LANCIERS
is a company member and the resident choreographer for The Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf in New York City. She has trained extensively with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company. Barbara performed in the SITI Company production of Hay Fever (Actors Theatre of Louisville) and served as Anne Bogart's assistant on Death and The Ploughman. Barbara is an Anne Bogart endorsed teacher the Viewpoints training method for theatre practitioners. She holds her MFA in Theatre from Towson University. Barbara is currently living and working in Budapest, Hungary on a Fulbright Scholarship. This is her 3rd season at the Ko Festival.
WORKSHOP LOGISTICS & REGISTRATION
Workshops are geared for participants of all levels of experience, whose ages have run from 18-85.
Workshops will meet from 10 am - 4 pm, Monday through Saturday, in Studio II or Studio III of Webster Hall on the Amherst College campus in Amherst, MA.
Driving Instructions to Amherst College
Amherst College campus map.Workshops cost $350. There is a $25 discount for registration by April 15.
Optional room and board are available on the Amherst College campus for an additional fee.
Rooms are $190, for a single with a shared bath in an Amherst College dorm. A meal ticket for the Dining Commons (healthy food, much of it local) is $150.
Email us, if you are interested in alternative housing. There are a number of hotels, motels and bed & breakfasts in the area.
Studios, theatre, dining commons and dorms are all within walking distance.