26/08/22 Physical Lab – Text Intensive – 22 & 23 December 2014 with Yorgos Karamalegos – “How to approach and build a character”

RED STAGE THEATRE announces a new 2-day physical theatre with our close associate Yorgos Karamalegos.

The lab/ workshop will take place on the 22nd & the 23rd of December:

22/12/2014: Monday 11am-7pm

23/12/2014: Tuesday 11am-8pm (7pm-8pm presentation/open workshop of the work done in the 2 days with the lab’s participants, open to the public interested to watch).

The lab will be conducted both in English and Greek language and is open to Professional Actors and Drama School students.

THIS WORKSHOP WILL FOCUS ON SHARING:

– A practical method on how to approach and connect personally with a new monologue and a character.

– A grounding process that will assist you to delve deeper and discover your archetypal sounds and moving qualities that will flow into your character and text effortlessly.

Yorgos works with the exhilarating sense of freedom and release that performers experience when they dive inside the body. Through durational practices, performers open up physically and emotionally, ground themselves down, and discover their own essence and qualities (mind, body, voice, emotion/energy).

They experience themselves in full capacity, which is often hidden under layers of performing habits, emotional resistance or simply trying too hard.

From that freeing place, moving, acting, improvising and performing is impulsive, enjoyable and effortless.

This practice also applies to film work, as it brings performers and actors to a grounded, realistic place.

More info about the work can be found at www.yorgosk.com

PARTICIPATION AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

Early bird registration €65 per participant- Deadline 10pm 20 October 2014

Late bird registration: €95 per participant – Any date between 10pm 20th October – 31st October 2014 subject to availability.
Super Late Registration: €125 per participant, any date between 1st November -20th December subject to availability

Call for registration arrangement tel. 7000 28 29

mail@redstagetheatre.com

Yorgos was born in Athens, Greece, where he was trained as an actor at “Arhi” Drama School of Nelli Karra, and worked in theatre, film and television.

In 2001 he moved to London and trained with Philippe Gaulier and members of Complicite. In 2003 he found himself in Liverpool to join Hope Street Physical Theatre Programme, and then he founded Tmesis Theatre company and Physical Fest (International Physical Theatre Festival) with Elinor Randle. Tmesis collaborated with some world-class artists, such as Malou Airaudo (Pina Bausch Tanztheater), Tanya Khabarova (Derevo), Yoshi Oida, Lorna Marshall, Gennadi Bogdanov, Fin Walker, members of Complicite, and Nigel Charnock. All the repertoire he created with Tmesis has toured nationally and internationally, to critical acclaim. Physical Fest is the only festival of its kind in Europe that specialises solely in physical theatre, attracting participants and artists locally, nationally and internationally.

In 2011 he founded Physical Lab, an international laboratory of physical acting and physical theatre, and Pleasure Lab, a monthly event open to all who want to re-connect to their bodies and feel comfortable in their skin.

Yorgos’s teaching resume includes collaborations with world class institues such as LAMDA, RADA, Drama Centre, and The Actors Centre in London, as well as workshops and residencies in Europe and Africa. Close associate artist with Red Stage Theatre in Cyprus.

Drawing on his 14 years of work, personal experience and research, Yorgos has developed an approach to assist individuals to re-connect with their bodies and to reach greater authenticity with themselves. This approach is called Grounding (Body and Mind).