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about me
We are a group of theatre artists who are also authorized teachers in yoga, zen meditation, tai chi, and aikido. We are seeking to unify these disciplines to make a unified theatre practice that promotes individual and world healing, hones professional skill, and energizes the theatrical experience.
We are dedicated to a new process of making theatre, and to forming a lively community of artists who bring the expressive arts into all areas of their life.
We believe acting, storytelling, poetry, and stagecraft are noble professions.
We believe artists are voyagers, reporting from the darkest territories of human experience.
We see these arts as a path of liberation for the artist.
We help actors hone their skills, and fall in love with acting all over again.
For actors and non-actors alike, we introduce the way of acting as a force that bursts through defensive notions of self, to enrich our perspective and sense of purpose.
Please visit us on the web at www.theatredojo.com
Exploring Meditation
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For our last two classes, we explored meditation in more depth.
THURSDAY: We practiced a guided Taoist meditation and segued into vocal work, bringing resonance into different parts of the body with different effects on body/mind.
Then ...
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Class Report: Sunday
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At a certain point the space becomes like dough and comes alive in our hands. We breathe it in and it moves us about. We give it direction and it becomes our collaborator. When we disappear, the space expresses itself and the actors are simply wav...
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Day Three: Text
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Day 3: We read Heiner Muller's play, "Quartet."
Next class is Sunday, 2-6. Jen, Chris, and Algernon teaching. "Pushing: Mind/Body, Self/Other"
Day Two: Sing it!
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Tuesday night's class was a solo class in yoga and voice with Jen. The latter was a spontaneous development, as Jen found herself in a class teaching singers, and decided to go with that.
Our classes are like that: things appear in the room ...
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It Begins
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Our cycle of spring classes, integrating yoga, meditation, and martial arts work into our training as actors, began today with a 4-hour class at Om the Road yoga studio in North Hollywood.
Here's what we did:
Yoga. Unifying breath and movem...
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For our last two classes, we explored meditation in more depth.
THURSDAY: We practiced a guided Taoist meditation and segued into vocal work, bringing resonance into different parts of the body with different effects on body/mind.
Then we did improvisational movement, exploring the point where the editing consciousness relaxes and "something else" moves us around.
SUNDAY: After yoga, more meditation. After sitting Zen, we experimented with an adaptation of tonglen. In Alg's...
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At a certain point the space becomes like dough and comes alive in our hands. We breathe it in and it moves us about. We give it direction and it becomes our collaborator. When we disappear, the space expresses itself and the actors are simply waves on the surface of a deep, deep ocean.
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"Oh ho, does this hurt?"
Nnnhhhngggn!!
"Sixteen of these, you can do it."
hhhhhhhhhrrrnnnnhhhhhh!
"I shouldn't be able to do this while you boys can't!"
hhhhrrrngggnnn!!
"And ...
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Day 3: We read Heiner Muller's play, "Quartet."
Next class is Sunday, 2-6. Jen, Chris, and Algernon teaching. "Pushing: Mind/Body, Self/Other"
Thu, May 10, 2007 - 10:29 PM
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Tuesday night's class was a solo class in yoga and voice with Jen. The latter was a spontaneous development, as Jen found herself in a class teaching singers, and decided to go with that.
Our classes are like that: things appear in the room and we explore them. We aren't teaching from outlines or lesson plans - oh, we've tried, but we can't stick to them. Much more interesting to follow what happens when we are in the room together.
After all, that's what excites us about theatre: ...
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Our cycle of spring classes, integrating yoga, meditation, and martial arts work into our training as actors, began today with a 4-hour class at Om the Road yoga studio in North Hollywood.
Here's what we did:
Yoga. Unifying breath and movement in a workout that was physically demanding.
Zazen. Skipping the imaginary gap between listening and communicating. A restful yet energizing awareness practice while sitting, walking, and movement.
Aikido. A method for exploring violence...
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