Wednesday, November 03, 2010




SF Alexander workshop

Workshop on Saturday November 13th
with Constance Clare-Newman and Amy Likar

Join us for a day of Body Mapping and hands-on Alexander!

We will present detailed slides, and video and of course, handouts.

During presentations, one or both of us will be giving individual hands-on experiential understandings to match up with our intellectual understandings.

If you are a teacher, teaching your students functional anatomy in Alexander lessons clarifies and deepens their understanding and their ability to practice AT skills.

If you are an Alexander student, this workshop will bring a whole new level of awareness into your practice.

Saturday, November 13th from 10-5 at Jeffrey Bihr studio in Rockridge, Oakland
$125, limit of 15 students

Contact Constance for more info or to sign up.


Constance Clare-Newman

Less Effort, More Ease
The Alexander Technique

http://www.constanceclare.com
510-655-2734

Tuesday, November 02, 2010




inspiration visited me tonight

There I was in class, facing the challenge of helping an actor get better by helping her to see her character's situation more clearly.

I have faced the particular challenge I was facing in this case many times before. But for some reason, today, I went about it differently. I don't know why I did that. And it probably wasn't the first time I tried this new approach. But tonight was the night that I went the way I did AND I saw the potential it implied: how many new possibilities it opened up.

I remembered how years ago, someone told me about a teacher doing something along these lines, but it hadn't made any sense to me then.

The past and the future converged in the now.

I looked around at my students who were smiling and laughing while they were learning and getting better.

Outside, the horns honked for the Giants. The night was soft and cool.

Saturday, October 30, 2010




Uranium Madhouse Advisory Board member #4: Karim Javeri

I am very pleased to announce the fourth member of the Uranium Madhouse Advisory Board, Karim Javeri:


Karim Javeri is based in London, UK and is Director and Project Manager at Public Value Consulting Limited. His work focuses on advisory and consultancy services to the nonprofit and social enterprise sector. In the past he has conducted research for the Bank of England through the London School of Economics and recently completed a dissertation on performance measurement in the public sector. He holds a Masters of Public Administration from the London School of Economics in Public and Economic Policy.

Before moving to the United Kingdom, Karim lived in Canada and held various service delivery and leadership positions in nonprofit organizations in Toronto. He has Bachelor of Social Work degree from McGill University and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.


Karim joins David Chambers, Dr. Amir Eshel and Elisa Carlson on the Advisory Board for Uranium Madhouse, the theater company I am forming in Los Angeles

Welcome Karim!


Tuesday, October 26, 2010




Uranium Madhouse working logo



Here is what I am looking at for the logo for Uranium Madhouse, the theater company I am founding. With much gratitude to Seth Ernsdorf of Ernsdorf Design

Monday, October 25, 2010




Uranium Madhouse Advisory Board Member #3: Elisa Carlson

I am thrilled to announce that Elisa Carlson, who has worked as a voice and speech coach at the Guthrie and other major regional theaters and is a graduate of the stellar MFA acting program at the University of Delaware, has agreed to join David Chambers and Dr. Amir Eshel on the Advisory Board for Uranium Madhouse, the theater company I am forming in Los Angeles.

Here is more about Elisa:

Elisa Carlson was on the Artistic Staff of the Guthrie Theater for eight years where she coached voice, speech and text for 31 productions. Other coaching credits include multiple productions Off-Broadway and at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Children’s Theater, Alliance Theatre and Georgia Shakespeare.


Elisa has a special interest in new plays, having coached world premieres of plays by Tony Kushner, Kia Corthron and Ellen McLaughlin, among many others, and the premiere of the Michael Korie/Ricky Ian Gordon opera The Grapes of Wrath. Her acting credits include the Guthrie, The Shakespeare Theater and the Alliance. She has performed internationally with companies in Finland, Germany, Greece and The National Theatre of Cyprus.


Film credits include acting in and coaching text for Campbell Scott’s film of Hamlet starring Blair Brown. She was dialect and foreign language coach for the feature film Sweet Land starring Alan Cumming, winner of the 2006 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature, and created language for the multiple award-winning short Ana’s Playground.


Elisa has B.F.A. in acting from Florida State and an M.F.A in acting from the University of Delaware's Professional Theatre Training Program. She recently moved home to Atlanta and is a Resident Director and Associate Professor at the Gainesville Theatre Alliance.


Welcome Elisa!

 
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