Evening Conservatory
STUDIO 5
Experimental Lab
Full year professional training
"AND THE HIPPOS WERE BOILED IN THEIR TANKS"
JACK KEROUAC/
WILLIAM S.BURROUGHS
'I HAD THE FEELING THAT ALL OVER AMERICA SUCH STUPID ARGUMENTS WERE TAKING PLACE ON STREET CORNERS AND IN BARS AND RESTAURANTS. ALL OVER AMERICA, PEOPLE WERE PULLING CREDENTIALS OUT OF THEIR POCKETS AND STICKING THEM UNDER SOMEONE ELSE'S NOSE TO PROVE THEY HAD BEEN SOMEWHERE AND DONE SOMETHING. AND I THOUGHT SOMEDAY EVERYONE IN AMERICA WILL SUDDENLY JUMP UP AND SAY 'I DON'T TAKE ANY SHIT!' AND START PUSHING AND CURSING AND CLAWING AT THE MAN NEXT TO HIM."
1st Semester
September 06 – December 9, 2010
Monday to Thursday
6:30pm to 10pm
2nd Semester
January 31 – April 7, 2011
Monday to Thursday
6:30pm to 10pm
Conservatory Opening Night for
show: April 14 2011
Limit:
12 Students
Faculty:
Per Brahe, Raina von Waldenburg,
Michael Akil Davis, Jeff Barry
Tuition
$3.200,00 $ per semester
Payment Plans Available
JACK KEROUAC/WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS:
"AND THE HIPPOS WERE BOILED IN THEIR TANKS"
As a frame for the training program in the fall of 2010 and the spring of 2011, we have chosen the novel “And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks”. The participants in the program, aside from the foundation of Studio 5 training, will also be introduced to techniques that enable the actor to create an adaption from a literary text. Then in April 2011 this adaptation will be performed at Studio 5
The story itself takes place in New York City after the end of the Second World War where the main characters fight to survive in the huge mess that is the city at the time. And even though the time is dark, it is also a time of progressive music and art; the artists are delving into and molding the expressions and sentiment generated by a post-war country. The entirety of that artistic community united to create a strong atmosphere that eventually gave rise to the Beatnik era.
As a part of the education in this conservatory, we will dive into the period of the novel and pull all of the inspiration we can from it: Character work, atmosphere, tempo, rhythm, and fashion. Through this years established training program we will gain the imagination and the power to fill in what this novel and adaption require.
Michael Akil Davis
Director of Studio 5
STUDIO 5 Experimental Lab honors a collaborative teaching philosophy in training actors for professional theatre and film. To release the actor’s physical and psychological restraints, each class is structured to connect the physical body to an awareness of organic impulse. Students will train three and a half hours a day, Monday to Thursday, in Michael Chekhov, Grotowski, Viewpoints, Per Brahe technique, mask, Roy Hart Voicework, character development, on-camera technique, dramaturgy, and the business of acting (headshots, agents and business plans).
First semester students focus on building ensemble, recognizing and transcending boundaries, and opening energy channels for free flow of imagination. Second semester students refine craft, precision, repeatability, and harness the power of abstract images. Students are evaluated at the end of the first semester, and upon faculty review, are asked to return for the second semester. The final presentation, developed by students and faculty, will be performed in a Manhattan location and directed by faculty.
To schedule an audition contact Per Brahe: pertopeng@earthlink.net.
STUDIO 5
421 Classon Avenue, Studio 5
Brooklyn, NY 11238
(917) 686-2236
Faculty
PER BRAHE, Artistic Director of Studio 5 in Brooklyn New York, has been a professional director, writer, actor, teacher and painter since 1967. He has directed more than 85 plays throughout the world. He recently translated and directed a modern adaptation of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie. He is currently developing his translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s monodrama, A Tragedy and an all male version of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night with masks. He is a world-renowned Mask teacher and Master Teacher of Michael Chekhov technique and an expert in Balinese Mask. He taught at Gitis in Moscow and at the International Summer School in Irkusk, Siberia, and has been an invited Master Teacher at the Moscow Art Theatre’s celebration of its 100th year anniversary. He is full-time faculty at The Actors Center. He is on the faculties at Yale School of Drama, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, The National Theatre Institute, and the Bill Esper Studio. In 2000 he was the Artistic Director for the Michael Chekhov Conference in Siberia. In 1991 he founded the Michael Chekhov Studio, Aarhus, Denmark. He is the Artistic Director for the annual Bali Conservatory.
RAINA VON WALDENBURG is a full-time faculty member at NYU. She has been teaching a physical approach to acting based on the work of Jerzy Grotowski at NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing for the past ten years. Teacher, playwright, director and actor, she received her MFA in performance writing from Goddard College and her BFA in acting from New York University. Trained under Ryszard Cieslak, Grotowski’s principal actor and protégée, and Steve Wangh, Raina has taught numerous Master Classes in Physical Acting at INTER-ACT (Graz, Austria), The Bali Conservatory 2007 (Bali, Indonesia), Big Sur Theatre Lab (Big Sur), the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (NYC), the National Viewpoint Conference (NYC), Working Classroom (Albuquerque) and the Metropolitan School for the Arts (Syracuse). She also teaches private classes in NYC. She has worked with ensembles developing material for performance at Working Classroom, Metropolitan School for the Arts, Delachenal Impro (Chambery, France) and New York University. Raina served as research assistant and editor for Steve Wangh’s book An Acrobat of the Heart: A Physical approach to acting based on the work of Jerzy Grotowski, published by Vintage Press. Raina’s directing credits include NYU’s production of her full-length play Das Kaspar Theatre, Safiya Henderson-Holmes’ Testimony at the New Federal Theatre, Sarah Schulman’s Promenade at PS122, and Killer in Love at Goddard College, as well as assistant directing NYU’s productions of Dream Farm, Troilus and Cressida and Merchant of Venice. Her acting credits include Mother [Andrea Yates] in 15 Seconds of Silence (American Place Theatre), Delphine in The Life of Spiders (The Culture Project), Charlotte in The Last Supper (La MaMa Etc.), Dantchika/Magda/Rohkol in Jude (Marilyn Monroe Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Institute), Girl’s Mother/Zucco’s Mother/Elegant Lady in Roberto Zucco (OHIO Theatre), Renee in Erostratus (Gene Frankel Theatre), Mother/Madame in Roberto Zucco (Currican Theatre), Linda in Just the Boys (Painted Bride), and Nurse in Medea (Movement Theatre International).
JEFF BARRY is an actor, director and playwright. He has taught at the Neighborhood Playhouse, School for Film and Television, the Yale School of Drama, A Class Act, and The New School. As an actor Jeff continues to work in theatre, film and television. Theatre credits include: The Huntington Theatre Company, The Dorset Theatre Festival, Yale Rep. Film and TV credits include: The Hatteras, Carter, The Company Men, Date Night. Jeff was trained at The National Theatre Institute, Fordham University, and the Yale School of Drama where he received the Oliver Thorndike Award in Acting. Jeff is also co-artistic director of the Miscreant Theatre.
MICHAEL AKIL DAVIS is an Art Spirit: an actor, dancer, writer, musician, director, teacher, and yogi. He recieved his BA from NYU's Tisch undergrauate theatre program with focuses on Shakespeare, Clowning, and Alchemistic Theatre, and was most recently seen in the award-winning Off-Broadway production of Emperor Jones at the Irish Rep theatre. As a Dancer he has been trained in the forms of Thai Classical (Master Manop Meejamrat), Balinese Topeng (Masters Ida Bagus Anom and Ida Bagus Alit), Butoh (Tetsuro Fukuhara), Jazz, African Dance, as well as over 9 years of Modern experience, and 15 years of Hip-Hop experience. His other artistic and endeavors include his central membership of the New York based band Ippazzi, in which Akil provides the rap and lyrical sections of the music- being widely known for almost entirely "freestyling" his lyrics and performance. He is an avid writer of poetry, philosophy, social commentary, fiction, and theatre; completing his first short novel in 2009 and writing and directing his first play "Gods and Demons" in the summer of 2011. Akil also has studied and now teaches Acroyoga (acrobatic yoga) around New York and other parts of the world. He has taught and performed in numerous cities around the country, as well as at the Patravadi Theatre in Bangkok Thailand, and the Purnati Art center in Bali Indonesia.
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