start gathering to exercise their craft? How do all these different disciplines begin to come together to form one discipline that is harmonious and open to all comers--a discipline that promotes both high quality artistry and high quality acceptance of others?
Enter TheWorkout.
Begun by TheDrillingcompaNY, well known for their theme based theatre projects, TheWorkout exercises the voice, body, imagination and heart in one afternoon.
There's no charge, but a $5 donation is suggested and gratefully appreciated. TheWorkout exists for professional multi-diciplinary theatre artists, theatricians:
writers, actors directors, technicians, designers
to exercise their craft and get to know one another.
Next workout:
When: February 17th, 2007 11am - 2 pm
Where: 78th St. Theatre Lab 236 W. 78th St., 1 block south from the 1 train at 79th St.
RSVP: drillingcompany@aol.com
How much: FREE! (recommended $5 donation)
Space is limited - please RSVP
This month featuring the artistry of one of New York's top theatricans: Ms. Leese Walker
artistic director of Strike Anywhere Theatre Ensemble!
Leese is a Dartmouth grad who began her professional career as a member of the Irondale Ensemble, NYC. She was profoundly influenced by the improvisational methods and ensemble-based approach to developing material at Irondale. While with Irondale, she played Antigone in Antigone, Didi in Waiting For Godot, and St. Juste in Danton’s Death. Leese has performed extensively with the Judith Shakespeare Company in NYC including roles as: Richard II, Cressida, Dromio of Ephesus in Comedy of Errors and Helena in All’s Well That Ends Well. She has danced, acted and played Lakota flute with the Wendy Osserman Dance Company (Dance Theater Workshop, UBU Rep, Union Square Park), and has been improvising as an actor with the Walter Thompson Orchestra since 1997, (Lincoln Center, NYC Jazz Vision Festival, HERE, Knitting Factory). In addition to all of her performance work, Leese freelances as a teaching-artist with the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Roundabout Theatre Company, and MCC Theater. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Network of Ensemble Theatres, a national consortium of ensemble companies.
