Making Theatre/Facilitating Dialogue

Posted by on February 4, 2005

SUMMER 2005
July 11-16

Making Theatre/Facilitating Dialogue: Performance & Collaboration in Educational, Professional, and Community Settings with Michael Rohd/Sojourn Theatre

In Portland, Oregon at Lewis & Clark College (reasonable lodging and optional graduate credit available)

Meets July 11-16, 2005 (9am-4pm each day, 9am -1pm Saturday)

This 6 day workshop/training offers participants (artists/organizers/educators and others) an opportunity to explore the techniques & strategies Sojourn Theatre artistic director Michael Rohd uses in collaborative work with groups in a variety of settings to:

* Devise performance
* Explore metaphor through a physical theatre of action and architecture
* Build community
* Investigate contemporary issues through arts-based dialogue

The week will include a variety of approaches to performance and facilitation including:

* Physical/gestural theatre
* Improvisation
* Documentary theatre
* Inquiry and dialogue activities
* Movement and group composition work

Influences reflected during the week include Ping Chong, Augusto Boal, Eastern European ensemble theatre companies, Lynn Blom, Cornerstone Theater, Pina
Bausch, Dorothy Heathcote, Bob Leonard, Living Stage, Dwight Conquergood & Paolo
Freire.

IN ADDITION
The week offers a unique opportunity to study/play during the day & observe at night. Sojourn Theatre is conducting a Lab series this summer. During the lab, Sojourn ensemble members take leadership of projects and move them through a developmental process towards production. Artistic Director Rohd mentors company members as they pursue their own diverse passions and voices.

Sojourn Theatre’s ensemble will begin rehearsal for this Lab series during this workshop week at Lewis & Clark College. Each evening, workshop participants will have the option of attending rehearsal and observing a company with a growing national reputation for innovative theatre and civic engagement strategies as a part of their time in Portland. Rohd is also beginning development work on a new company piece as part of the lab. His evening work with the ensemble will also occur during this workshop week.

Register early, space is limited.

For info on grad credit and/or lodging, please see http://www.lclark.edu/dept/lcteach/theatre.html

On August 10-12, there will be a 3 day version of this workshop-9am-4pm

For registration or further information about either session, call 971-544-0464 or email [email protected]