Comedy
Physical Comedy
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Physical comedy prioritises the body as a signifier in performance, playing on comic dimensions and potential, and requiring a level of training that focuses on gymnastic as well as comic skills.
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Lisa Mayo of the Kuna and Rappahannock Nations was a founding member of the Native
American women’s feminist theatre group, Spiderwoman Theater. She was a singer,
actor, and playwright who wrote and performed with Spiderwoman Theater for 35
years.
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A workshop on Eccentric Performing. This pedagogy for physical theatre is interesting in its presentation of techniques the performer can use to influence the audience’s emotional reactions.
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An intensive commedia course, taught by Antonio Fava, with a commentary by John Rudlin. The workshop was observed by John Retallack, Director of the Oxford Stage Company.
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Sun, Moon and Feather presents a musical comedy-documentary about three Native American sisters growing up Native in an Italian neighbourhood in Brooklyn during the 1930s and 1940s.
Practitioner
A director, teacher and actor, Jos Houben trained at L’École Jacques Lecoq, was a founding member of Complicité, has directed comedy and television, and toured his one-man masterclass internationally.
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Practitioner
A director, teacher and actor, Jos Houben trained at L’École Jacques Lecoq, was a founding member of Complicité, has directed comedy and television, and toured his one-man masterclass internationally.
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Many performance traditions have involved parades and displays in streets, towns or village squares, and the majority of these performances have been constructed with this spatial context in mind.