Various workshops and courses-physical theater
I have over 30 years of professional experience in acting, teaching, directing and artistic management, with professional actors and amateurs at all levels. I was a partner in the establishment and management of two theater centers, Beit Arma and Huadi High School in Haifa. You can happily invite me to direct and artistically manage a project or to teach a short workshop, a day workshop or a full course.
Everything moves
Everything moves - getting to know the physical theater. We will explore the possibility that everything that exists around us and within us is a great inspiration for expression - physical preparation, release exercises, games, group listening, space balance, physical expression inspired by space, smells, names, architecture, various stressful situations in the body, "20 movements of Lakok ”, building movement-theatrical combinations
The neutral mask
Neutral Mask - Who is hiding behind the mask? Focusing exercise in practicing the participants' theme presence, the architecture of state and emotion. Connection between the content of Inner Awareness Games. Birth / discovery, journey, connection between geographical journey and movement and sincere emotion. An audio / farewell exercise, a personal journey for everyone from an experience. How the mask serves us in building an honest presence in this world, on and off stage.
Elements and materials
Elements, materials - a workshop where we will get to know how my whole being as an actor becomes the thing itself - that is - how my whole becomes fire instead of playing fire ... through the four elements, organic and artificial materials and the like we will learn how elements choir.
Paints and painters
Colors and painters - we will explore authentic expression in an encounter with colors and textures, we will learn the connection between color and emotion, how color affects us, how it helps to build a character and stage composition and we will work inspired by plastic works of art as a choir of actors in movement and sound.
Inspirational animals
Animals - the study of the inspiration of the animal world - through leading organs, development of impulses / output - senses that exist in the body, observation of animals and analysis of physical movement, courtship, life cycle, behavior and encounter between animals. The personification from animals to characters. Finding an outfit, profession, accessories, improvisations of singles couples and threesomes to a crazy character cabaret.
From masks to figures
From a mask for a character figure - a variety of types of theater masks - puppet masks, character masks to characters - we will start by getting to know the world of the mask, rules and inspirations for creating a character with a mask. We will get to know the golem / laber masks, we will practice rhythm, surgery to break down the movement. Finding body language, and concrete action that accompanies a concrete emotion or situation. Familiarity with character masks-. Finding an outfit, profession, accessories, improvisations of singles couples and threesomes to a crazy character cabaret.
Buffons
Buffon - A style of play that traces the grotesque world of the fool character. In this style of play we dive in underground, a place where all the dark spirits and demons reside… A fascinating encounter! We expose the distortion and violence we have built and learn to give them physical and textual expression in the process of extremism and learn how to release and curb the monster…
The hero and the choir
The hero and the choir - a style of play connected to the idea of the classical Greek tradition of choir work. We will learn to develop connected listening. How to develop group listening without words. And what happens to the choir when the protagonist arrives? We will learn what it is like to be alone in front of a team - a loser or a hero?
Comedy del Arte
Comedy del Arte masks - we will get to know the classic character warehouse of the Comedy del Arte that developed during the Renaissance in Italy with the bands of the traveling actors. From there we will embark on a journey in which we will explore deep within ourselves our sincere connection to characters, and what is their statement in the world today? We will write their text, find out what the relationship between the characters is and how they work together. We will write excerpts for the stage, or adapt materials from an existing play for a contemporary contemporary theater
Theater on the street and in the public space
Group at work - the public space belongs to all of us! We will learn how to appear on the street, what are the rules of the game that change in the street versus an enclosed space, how to create presence and focus in the street, what is possible and what is impossible, what it is like to work at eye level with the audience .... The common.
Hyde Park !!
Hyde Park !! In this workshop each participant will build an eccentric theatrical figure, write his own original text, or process a text he chooses and practice together the possibility of expressing our thoughts and expressing our voice theatrically in the public space! We will remove the masks and say what is on our hearts in theatricality
