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NOHspace Presents - 2007-2008 Season Motherlode Stage Company - Alien Body - Elke Luyten & Kira Alker - |
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Motherlode Stage Company November 19th & 20th, 2007 Led by former Theatre of Yugen member Stuart E.W. Smith, Motherlode Stage Company trains its actors and apprentices in The Quiet Way. Stemming from the physical theatre of Shogo Ohta, the choreographic experimentation of Merce Cunningham and the aesthetic intersection between painting and theatre. For two nights Motherlode brings to the Bay Area a “concert” in The Quiet Way, featuring text-sparse, improvisatory solos, duets, and small ensemble works, as well as a featured choreographed piece, “Train Station, 1906”.
Motherlode Stage Company formed in 1994 to “Tell the California Story through theatre.” Responsible for more original theatre work than any other group in the Gold Country, Motherlode continues today in small, touring shows with artists of all ages and Apprentice work by and of teen artists. Appearances across the country include the San Francisco Fringe Festival, the Gold Country Literary Festival, Dahlonega Literary Festival (GA), and numerous special events, such as the Family Celebration inside the Sixteen to One Mine, a mile under the earth. Stuart E.W. Smith, Artistic Director, Motherlode Stage Company. Educator, theatre consultant, performer, public speaker, and writer. With professional training from both traditional Western and Eastern theatre artists, Smith's work includes dozens of original pieces and interpretations of classic work. S.E.W. Smith meets with individuals and groups interested in developing community theatres. He directs Motherlode, a theatre group he founded in Placer County in 1994. Outside of Motherlode, Smith directs the drama and vocal music programs for Roseville High School and teaches as a professional elocutionist for corporate clients. |
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NOHspace Presents Alien Body January 19th & 20th, 2008 TIX: $15/$10
Students/Seniors Curated and featuring performance interventions by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Alien Body is built around three new short works by San Francisco-based performing artists, including Violeta Luna, Allison Wyper, and Sara Shelton Mann (whose piece, in collaboration with David Szlasa, is the developmental work for her full length premiere with ODC in April).
Representing three different generations, ethno-cultural backgrounds, and/or artistic disciplines, Alien Body looks at the body as territory in a foreign setting, a vulnerable entity in a hostile, unpredictable or inhospitable space: the aging body in a youth-centered space, the body as victim of a toxic environment, and the “ethnic body”. |
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NOHspace Presents A Little of More Elke Luyten (Belgium), co-creator, choreographer and performer April 21st and 22nd, 2008 tickets $15/$10
Students/Seniors Built on a strong foundation of codified movement, the performers interweave original Shaker writings and songs to create a richly detailed work of individual struggle and metaphysical transcendence. A Little of More was created in the traditions of Etienne Decroux, a theatre revolutionary of the 20th century who devised a system of movement allowing the actor to embody thought. By using this language of abstract movement and daily physical actions, the performers present a work that is spare, elemental and universal. A Little of More was created in part during a residency at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center in New York in April of 2007. A 35-minute duet version of the piece premiered at the New Original Works Festival at the REDCAT in Los Angeles in July 2007. This performance at Nohspace is the premier of the full-length piece, including four actors from the USA, Belgium and Singapore. A Little of More will subsequently be shown in May 2008 at the Watermill Center in New York as a part of the group’s second residency at the center. Elke Luyten, born in Hasselt, Belgium, currently lives and works in the Los Angeles area. Since 1998, she has worked as one of Thomas Leabhart’s research assistants, assistant teachers and principal performers of Corporeal Mime. In addition to teaching Corporeal Mime, Elke has presented her solo work throughout Japan, Belgium, France, Mexico and the United States. Kira Alker, a resident of the Los Angeles area, graduated from Pomona College with a degree in Theatre Performance. She has studied Corporeal Mime with Thomas Leabhart since 2001 and currently works as one of his research and teaching assistants. Additionally, she has directed Luyten’s solos: On the Edge of Nothing, Happy Songs for Sad Days and Here is Someone. Workshop in Corporeal Mime April 19th and 20th, 2008 $85 total for two day workshop Etienne Decroux (1898 – 1991) developed Corporeal Mime in France during the early twentieth century. Reacting strongly against realism and the dominance of words on stage, Decroux created a theatre form to empower the actor by giving him a specific technique to place drama within the body. Today, Corporeal Mime is one of the only codified theatre forms that exists in the western world. With a specific and unique vocabulary for the articulation of the body, the Corporeal Mime actor strives to embody thought. Singing the movements of the soul with the muscles of the body, the actor reveals a profound and universal inner conflict. Nonetheless, the drama expressed in Corporeal Mime is decidedly non-situational and nonlinear: there is no plot and no characters portrayed. Thoroughly modern, reactionary and revolutionary, the actor succeeds the playwright in this new form of theatre.
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NOHspace Presents paige starling sorvillo/blindsight productions September 8th & 9th, 2008 tickets $15/$10
Students/Seniors Short Works by one of the Bay Area's most intriguing choreographer.
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