Meet Ron and Adam!
Ron Gurr from Jobs West helps people find work placements. Adam is a student involved in Waiting For Go (dot); Theatre Terrific's new Fringe production. Check out what they have to say about the experience...
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August 25, 2010 - 8:34pm
In working to create Waiting for Go (dot), Theatre Terrific's cast of 18 stomp and stride with fierce determination. Whoever thought 'waiting' could be so strenuous?
‘Suzuki’, as practiced by Anne Bogart, is one of the tools that we use to give strength, power, intention and acute awareness to the ensemble. Some artists have to make adaptations; for physical abilities, but that only makes the work all the more creative.
Watch the feet go by. Some are turned in, some half raised, some stiff. Attached to all those feet is determination and fierceness; set to burn a hole in the opposing wall.
Anne Bogart states that, ‘An actor must have the courage to be dangerous. This does not mean that you fight, but rather that you are prepared at all times for whatever presents itself.’
Ready.... GO!
August 22, 2010 - 7:21pm
Theatre Terrific's cast of 18 are in development for the production of Waiting for Go. for the Vancouver Fringe Festival.
We fall down. A lot!!...and we do it intentionally. Sounds crazy, but...it is amazing how much skill it takes to fall intentionally, to a precise count and not decorate the fall or make it look false. Try it. Albeit...carefully. No bruised bums!
Why do this? Good question.
Think of the body as always pushing away from gravity. Now allow it to surrender to gravity within a precise measurement of time. If you can surrender your body to gravity within a precise count of 10 or 7 or 2, you become a willing, pliable, adaptable and receptive partner to whatever forces are thrust upon you as an actor in the present moment. This may sound....highbrow....but you know what?.....just falling to a set time is also a heap of fun. Where and when else are you encouraged to perfect your falling skills in order to increase your theatre skills?
Crazy and wonderful.
Onwards fallers! (not the tree kind)
...Back next week...
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