UNO WORKSHOPS

Two solo-performance workshops to help get your singular creative juices flowing. Space is limited and pre-registration is required. Intrepid Theatre Club (1609 Blanshard). Festival passes are not valid for workshops.

Jump in and Tell

Presented by the Victoria Storytellers Guild

When: Saturday, May 30, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm

Where: Intrepid Theatre Club (1609 Blanshard at Fisgard)

Cost: By Donation, but you must register in advance: (250)383-2663

A workshop presented by Victoria storytellers, Jennifer Ferris and Peg Hasted.

Thinking about telling for the first time? Working on a new story? Reworking an old favourite? Experimenting with your telling style? Delve into story through vivid imaging, visualization and exploration of the senses.   Learn how to make a connection with the audience that is immediate and not easily forgotten.   Learn through exercises, activities and group work. Although this workshop is by donation, you must register in advance, (250)383-2663. Space is limited to 20 participants - last year's workshop had a long waiting list!

For the Love of It

Physical Theatre Workshop with Adam Lazarus (Toronto, ON)

When: Saturday, May 23, 9:00 am - 3:30 pm

Where: Intrepid Theatre Club (1609 Blanshard at Fisgard)

Cost: $70.00 - Pre-registration & payment required, space limited
250-383-2663

This workshop is designed for both non-performers as well as professional and pre-professional actors, dancers, writers, critical thinkers and physical performers to increase their performance palette. Working in the tradition of French Master Teachers Philippe Gaulier and Jacques Lecoq, the forefathers of physical theatre, this course challenges students to take risks, hone their improvisational skills and push through performance inhibitions to find the pleasure of being present, space, rhythm, fixed point, complicity, focus, flop and play. Why is this pleasure so important? It is with the performer's pleasure to move, to sing, to cry, to dance, to speak, that the audience is drawn in and the performer's beauty is pushed out. Over the day we will explore the forms of jeu, clown, bouffon, character and melodrama. Pre-registration & payment is required, space is limited: (250)383-2663.

ADAM LAZARUS Adam is a sessional instructor of acting at The National Theatre School of Canada and the University of Toronto.   He is a regular facilitator of physical theatre workshops, and has directed and co-created many award-winning clown, bouffon and character-driven shows, including Rachelle Elie's Joe: The Perfect Man ; Jesse Buck's Bubkus ; Melissa D'Agostino's Lupe: Undone , and he appeared in Fable at Uno in 2006.

Adam also co-produces the annual Toronto Festival of Clowns.     www.quiptake.com

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