KCACTF Region 1 Conference 57: Full Schedule

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9:00am EST

Devising, Bringing Your Story to Life Session3

Friday January 31, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST

Discover a new and unique way of telling your story through the intersection of movement, story, music, gesture, and words. Bring a real story from your life. Bring an object that either relates to the story or is just something you like. Over the course of each session we will move, we will sing, we will write, and through proposals and assignments from the workshop teachers, each student will create a short solo performance piece.

Speakers

jerome yorke

KCACTF Regional Exchange, KCACTF Exchange - Region 3 Devising Project Coordinator

Jerome is a devised theatre maker and educator specializing in storytelling through movement, puppetry, mask performance, and clowning. His physically based play and approach to theatre-making blends styles ranging from eccentric characterization to acrobatic dance. He is an Associate... Read More →

Tannis Kowalchuk

Devising Leader, KCACTF Region 1 Devising Board Member

Tannis Kowalchuk is the founding artistic director of Farm Arts Collective and the co-owner of Willow Wisp Organic Farm in Damascus, PA. She is a theatre artist, flower farmer, and community organizer. She has directed and performed in over 30 original theatre productions in the US... Read More →

Friday January 31, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EST
Constitution Memorial Hall

Devising

10:45am EST

Stage Combat and Fight Choreography

Friday January 31, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EST

Constitution

General, open to all. Students will learn some of the basics of consent-based unarmed stage combat as a group. Then, students will work on short scenes and develop a series of moves that flow together to create a cohesive whole.

Speakers

Sarah Bedard

Bridgewater State University

I am a theatre artist and educator. I have been an actor and director in New York and the Boston area for over a decade. I'm a member of Actor's Equity Association and am part of the full-time faculty at Bridgewater State University. At BSU, our mission as a department-- and my mission... Read More →

Friday January 31, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EST
Constitution Memorial Hall

Workshop

12:30pm EST

The Connected Actor's Body

Friday January 31, 2025 12:30pm - 1:45pm EST

Constitution

General, open to all. Using several physical theatre techniques, including Laban, Suzuki, and Grotowski, students will hone in on full physical connection, starting with the spine and breath and leading to the rest of the body. Students will play with control in both stillness and movement and will learn how a focused body leads to a focused performance. Students will learn to work from their own bodies, where they are right now. Not trying to "correct" anything, but instead embracing the power of their bodies as they are.

Speakers

Sarah Bedard

Bridgewater State University

Friday January 31, 2025 12:30pm - 1:45pm EST
Constitution Memorial Hall

Workshop

2:00pm EST

Create Theatre with Every Breath

Friday January 31, 2025 2:00pm - 3:15pm EST

Constitution

General, open to all.

Friday January 31, 2025 2:00pm - 3:15pm EST
Constitution Memorial Hall

Workshop

3:30pm EST

Droznin Russian Movement

Friday January 31, 2025 3:30pm - 4:45pm EST

Constitution

General, open to all. NTI Artistic Director, Rachel Jett, draws upon teaching techniques of master teacher, Andrei Droznin, to bring you this workshop. Droznin is a Russian movement style that originated at the Moscow Art Theater in Russia by Andrei Droznin. The goal of this work is to forge/identify a connection between body and mind as well as body and soul. That way, when an individual feels something, their instinctual response will be to express themselves. Additionally, Droznin has described his method as "living movement" - stage movement that blurs the boundaries between dance, mime, and vernacular gesture. This, in turn, allows the audience to identify with performances in additional depth. Rachel Jett is the first American teacher of Droznin, as she studied directly under his guidance in Moscow, and is thrilled to bring KCACTF Region 1 a taste!

Speakers

Rachel Jett

NTI Program Representative and Admissions Manager, National Theater institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center

I understand and acknowledge that I teach these workshops through the lens of my own background, culture, and experience. It is neither my goal nor my desire to foist my lens upon students, but to facilitate an understanding and skill set when approaching these works that enhances... Read More →

Friday January 31, 2025 3:30pm - 4:45pm EST
Constitution Memorial Hall

Workshop