Pig Iron Summer Session 2010

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3-week Intensive in Physical Theatre: Presence, Play, and the Red-Nose Clown

PLEASE NOTE: Applications for Summer Session 2010 are officially closed.  We will begin accepting applications for Summer Session 2011 in January 2011.

Collaboration. Risk-taking. The pleasure of performance.

Beginning with the body, Pig Iron's Summer Session in Philadelphia aims to train performers to be flexible, fearless, present, passionate and disciplined. The goal is to give students the skills to develop their own artistic voice while being grounded in the values of collaboration, experimentation, risk, and a curiosity about the world around us.

The Summer Session is an immersive training program for creative theatre artists interested in pushing the boundaries of contemporary performance. Rooted in Pig Iron's own artistic questions and performance techniques, the intensive workshop is intended to launch performers into the world of physically precise, emotionally rich, imaginatively constructed original theatre. The pedagogical approach will be one of deep inquiry and research grounded in physical training and constantly seeking moments of transcendent live performance. The student's curiosity will fuel the journey toward the discovery of the full expressiveness of the body and voice. The Summer Session will encourage students to unlock their own creativity and will nourish true collaboration among artists. Though students will be working on provocations that come from the faculty, the ultimate goal of the workshop is to open up each student's vision for the many possibilities of live performance.

Fee
$1250 ($1150 if fee is paid in full by April 15, 2010)

Dates
Monday June 7 through Saturday June 26
Classes are held Monday through Saturday. 6-8 hours of class-time per day, with additional time needed for rehearsals and class project preparation.

Location
Philadelphia, PA 

About Pig Iron Theatre Company

Pig Iron Theatre Company has won 2 OBIE Awards, 7 Barrymore Awards, has been listed as having one of the Top 10 productions of 2008 in the New York Times and is one of the leading ensembles in America. The company has toured its works throughout the United States, Europe and South America. The company has performed and taught workshops in colleges and universities including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, UVA, Georgetown, Wesleyan, Colgate, Swarthmore College and UPenn, among others.

Pig Iron prides itself on its insistent, unconventional focus on ensemble-building and on the creative potential of collaboratively-devised works. Over the last 14 years, the company has created 25 original pieces. We will draw from this research, as well as our own encounters with Jacques Lecoq's teaching, during the course of the Summer Session.