Thinking Movement, Moving Thought a One Day Symposium Focusing on the Relationships Between Movement, Psychology and Philosophy
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Thinking Movement, Moving Thought A one day symposium focusing on the relationships between movement, psychology and philosophy 22 September 2017 9am – 6.30pm Ivy Arts Centre Labanarium presents this one and philosophy and movement and (Alverno College, U.S); Will Wollen Guildford School day symposium in collaboration psychology. Workshops, seminars, (University of Kent); Christopher of Acting University of Surrey, with the Centre for Performance papers and encounters in movement Simpson (Northampton University) Guildford GU2 7XH Philosophy which will focus on the and thinking given byCate Deicher and Dr Paola Crespi (Goldsmiths relationships between movement CMA and Amy Shapiro, PhD University London). Tickets £25 Full £15 Concession Cate Deicher CMA and Professor Amy Shapiro Booking MOVING LECTURE AND WORKSHOP SESSION surrey.ac.uk/arts/ Amy Shapiro is Professor of 1999–2005 she was Director of Washington Press, 2013. She is theatre/20170922- Philosophy and Humanities at the Holocaust Education Resource currently working on Philosophically thinking-movement- Alverno College in Milwaukee, Centre at the Milwaukee Coalition Becoming, a memoir about moving-thought Wisconsin. Since its inception for Jewish Learning. Shapiro is co- becoming a language philosopher, Box Office in 2010 she has been Academic editor with Myrna Goldenberg of and a paper on the role of outcomes 01483 686 876 Director of Alverno’s Women’s and Different Horrors Same Hell: Gender based learning in the contemplative Gender Studies Program. From and the Holocaust, University of classroom. Cate Deicher has been exploring the Department of Dance and in Movement Analysis at Columbia and applying Laban’s work to Movement Studies at Alverno College Chicago until 2015. Her creative and educational projects College in 1988 and served as article, Laban-Based Movement since 1986. She has presented faculty, department chair, and Learning and Architectural Education: choreographic work over the Fine Arts Dean during her tenure. An Experiment Towards A New years in a variety of venues, for Following that, she served as Pedagogy, was published in the students, dance companies and faculty and Academic Coordinator Journal of the Laban Guild for theatre productions. She founded for the Graduate Laban Certificate Movement and Dance. Description together? How does Laban and How does movement meaning come As a dancer and a philosopher who dance influence the way we might into being? In this session we will have had an ongoing verbal and understand language, connection, explore a series of questions like movement conversation over the relationship? And how does these employing both verbal and past 28 years, we want to bring language philosophy influence the movement discussions to reflect on others into our verbal/movement way we understand ourselves in the ways we might enhance our conversation. What happens when a space, in time, in relationship? Can understanding of both. Dancer/Laban Movement Specialist meaning happen, whether verbal or and a Language Philosopher come non-verbal, without relationship? To book visit: surrey.ac.uk/arts/theatre/20170922-thinking-movement-moving-thought or Phone box Office 01483 686 876 LABANARIUM.COM Thinking Movement, Moving Thought Ivy Arts Centre Will Wollen Guildford School of Acting WORKSHOP SESSION Mangani ape Kerchak in The Legend his BA in French & Philosophy at the of Tarzan (Warner Bros. 2016). University of Leeds before training University of Surrey, Will Wollen, is Lecturer in Drama Guildford GU2 7XH as an actor at Arts Ed London under and Theatre Studies at University Previously: Assistant Director Adrian James, Stephen Hutton, Tickets of Kent. Outreach and Touring, Watermill £25 Full Andrew Visnevski and Cathérine Will has worked on all scales of Theatre (2004-07); Artistic Director, £15 Concession Clouzot. theatre, from West End to small- Theatre Royal Margate (2007-12); Booking scale rural touring and work with Specialist Movement Tutor, GSA Description surrey.ac.uk/arts/ A pedagogical approach, this Cherub Company London. His work Conservatoire 2003-2007. theatre/20170922- as a physical actor has seen him workshop explores scenes and thinking-movement- undertake creature work on film He leads practical workshops and monologues using the Inner moving-thought (Vogons in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the masterclasses at theatres and leading Attitudes and Quests, approached Box Office Galaxy (2005) and the silverback drama schools in the UK. Will gained through use of the related Planes. 01483 686 876 Christopher Simpson ACTIVE PRESENTATION at Northampton University as well expression and the characterful teaching psychological realism, mask constellations that arise when we Christopher Simpson is an actor and acting methodologies for other make use of a precise character with a broad ranging creative practice drama schools in London and abroad. typology with endless permutations. encompassing film-making, radio Key concerns are how reading the documentary, mask making and an Description This active presentation will explore body enables enacting another’s body extensive teaching practice. the conceptual terrain and attempt and how inner life manifests itself Christopher leads Acting for Screen to map what becomes possible when through outer action in an endless and Movement Psychology courses we can name qualities of human dynamic cycle... Dr Paola Crespi LECTURE rhythm and diagram. notes and writings and on the background of debates on rhythm Dr Paola Crespi is a Visiting Research Paola’s work has been published in and temporality in cultural theory. Fellow at the Topology Research international peer-reviewed journals Unit at Goldsmiths and a Lecturer at such as Body&Society, Subjectivity, Besides the more straightforward Anglia Ruskin University and at the Theatre, Dance&Performance aim of introducing Laban’s University of Suffolk. She holds a Training and online on the Theory, rhythmanalysis as found in both PhD in Media Studies (Goldsmiths), Culture&Society website. Paola sits his notes and his drawings to a an MRes in Humanities and on the editorial board of Evental wider public, this intervention Cultural Studies (London Aesthetics: An Independent Journal of seeks to draw attention to the Consortium) and a BA (Hons) in Philosophy and she is Section Editor dialogue between cultural theory Philosophy (University of Padua). for Cultural Studies and Critical Theory and performance studies that the Paola worked with the material of the Open Journal of the Humanities. material itself affords. Far from being restricted to the field of the held in the Laban Archive at the Description National Resource Centre for Dance performing arts, Laban’s work, I Rhythm Will Help Workers’: Rudolf (University of Surrey) for her argue, can be seen as an example of Laban’s Rhythmanalysis 1920-1958 PhD research and she is currently interdisciplinarity in which practice developing this project into a This intervention will argue for informs theory and theory informs monograph re-elaborating Laban’s the importance of rhythm in the the development of a practice work in terms of philosophical work of Rudolf Laban between the that takes the form of drawings, approaches to time and space such 1920s and the 1950s through a notations, choreography, dance, as those afforded by the notions of re-elaboration of his unpublished movement therapy and ergonomics. Supported by the Institute of Performance, GSA and the Doctoral College at the University of Surrey. To book visit: surrey.ac.uk/arts/theatre/20170922-thinking-movement-moving-thought or Phone box Office 01483 686 876 LABANARIUM.COM Labanarium presents a series of workshops, seminars, symposia and ‘encounters’ in movement and dance at The Guildford School of Acting Movement Direction Workshop and Masterclass, Blood Wedding 24 April 2017, 10am – 4pm, Ivy Arts Centre, GSA Dr Teresa Izzard, Theatre Arts lecturer at Curtin that combine Laban Movement Analysis and University and resident director/movement director. Viewpoints, exploring Lorca’s Blood Wedding. This master class and workshop will offer you the Booking: surrey.ac.uk/arts/theatre/movement- opportunity to develop your skills as a Movement direction-dr-teresa-izzard Director using a palette of tools and approaches Dead Rabbits Theatre Workshop and Performance My Love Lies Frozen in the Ice 7 June 2 - 3.30pm, Performance 6pm, Ivy Arts Centre and Founders Studio, GSA Kasia Zaremba Byrne and Dead Rabbits Theatre 6 - 7pm Dead Rabbits Theatre presents a scratch Company. Kasia works as a movement director for performance of My Love Lies Frozen In The Ice. Dead Rabbits as well as for NIE, an international A tale of love, loss and an unexplained power of company based in UK and Norway and is the human heart. A dark and mysterious story of a programme director for the MA and the BA in balloon expedition to the North Pole. In 1897 three Physical Theatre at St Mary University, Twickenham. explorers took off to the north pole in a free-flying 2-2:30 pm Playfulness, Spontaneity and Physical balloon. The trip was supposed to last 3 months. It Comedy. A workshop that will help you to took a little longer... Behind them, at home, they discover how to be playful, spontaneous and fearless left a woman who would not forget them… Follow on stage. You will explore how to have a greater us on that journey through the whiter than white confidence, how to be funny, open, and perhaps snow and darker than dark nights where nothing is vulnerable even though the audience is