All programs are currently available for booking.
CONTACT Lisa at (212) 254-4614 or lisa@bondst.org for booking prices & details.
This vivid video-lecture explores the impact and value of the expressive arts in areas of conflict. The video shows life in refugee camps during the wars in Afghanistan and Kosovo and a glimpse into the reality of travel in war-torn regions.
Company members speak about both the Balkan and Afghan conflicts and theatre’s unique ability to cross cultural barriers… to bring a little joy and laughter to traumatized populations and to illuminate the most sensitive of issues. The healing nature of theatre is dramatically evident in the work with children. Cross-cultural artistic conversation is crucial to mutual understanding and a powerful means for bringing peace to today’s world.
A how-to for artists, arts administrators, and anyone interested in mounting International Arts-Outreach Projects or International Artistic Collaborations.
This video-lecture examines some of Bond Street Theatre’s projects in countries like Afghanistan, India, and the Balkans as a practical and anecdotal guide in how to mount an artistic-humanitarian project. The lecture will offer successful collaboration models and strategies for project planing, locating host organizations and local collaborators, and fundraising. Included are helpful hints for visas and travel.
Workshops and demonstrations of physical and imagistic theatre techniques for professional actors, students of theatre, and those interested in enhancing their powers of communication.
LECTURE DEMONSTRATION
Starting from a physical base, company members demonstrate how body postures, actions, and gestures serve to illuminate character. We look at classic character archetypes from the commedia dell’arte and from various cultures, and the clown, who optimize honesty, vulnerability and spontaneity—all essential to the serious actor. Other physical skills are demonstrated and integrated into a theatrical context: mime, object manipulation, acrobatics, slapstick, and mask work.
WORKSHOPS
From the European laboratory theatre, the Greek drama, the silent screen, the vaudeville, and specific dance and martial art forms from around the world, we have brought the most intriguing styles and vocabularies together to create an excellent series of exercises for the actors’ use. Focus will be spent on developing a theatrical warm-up, ensemble acting techniques, focus and neutrality, using the spine, clarity of gesture, and creating characters, Also included in the study are the skills of mime, slapstick, tumbling, stage combat, physical comedy, partner work, improvisation, characterization, object manipulation, and the use of props.
The Impact of Gesture Program is available as single workshops or demonstrations, weekend intensive programs, or full company residences in conjunction with Bond Street performances.
%90 of all of our funds go to program expenses.
Bond Street Theatre
2 Bond Street
New York, NY 10012 USA
info@bondst.org
phone:
(212) 254-4614
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(212) 460-9378
