Title: Exploration of Forms: Rasaboxes
About Exploration of Forms:
Exploration of Forms is a public workshop series that centers embodiment, transformation, and creativity. All workshops are free for students. Guests are encouraged to make a donation of $5–20 at the door, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
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About This Workshop:
TDPS faculty members Timmia DeRoy and Daniel Larlham will lead a workshop in “Rasaboxes,” an improvisational structure that allows performers to explore the heightened expression of eight primary emotions: anger, fear, desire, laughter, wonder, grief, disgust, and heroic energy.
Inspired by the ancient Sanskrit Natyasastra, the “Rasabox” exercise was developed by Richard Schechner and East Coast Artists to help performers make the leap from stereotype to archetype and explore emotional extremes within a safe container, without having to draw upon personal memory or biography.
Come ready for a psycho-physical workout!
About the Teachers:
Timmia Hearn DeRoy is a practitioner and scholar of social justice-based theatre and film. She directs, writes, produces, dramaturgs, and teaches. She was a founding member of the Trinidad and Tobago PRIDE Arts Festival, former Director of the School for the Arts at the Trinidad Theatre Workshop, the Caribbean’s oldest theater company, and former Marketing Manager at the CaribbeanTales International Film Festival. She works in areas of post-colonial theater practice, transnational feminist praxis, and Disability Justice, and engages in community-oriented and social change focused theater across the Diasporas to which she belongs.
Daniel Larlham is a theatre-maker and performance researcher with an MFA in Acting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a PhD in Theatre from Columbia University. Daniel teaches acting and performance studies at TDPS. His current creative and research interests include eco-drama, performance and environmental justice, and psycho-physical and transpersonal acting techniques. Daniel’s core actor training has its roots in the American Stanislavsky tradition, but he has also explored Roy Hart vocal technique, Michael Chekhov’s “psychological gesture,” work on song and action at the Workcenter of Grotowski, and integral movement and performance practice (informed by Jungian psychology) at the Thomas Prattki Centre, Berlin, along with other methodologies. Daniel is a trained facilitator in Joanna Macy’s “The Work That Reconnects” and has completed One Earth Sangha’s EcoSattva Training, a course in Buddhist practice and eco-psychology.
Accessibility:
If you require an accommodation for effective communication or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact us with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7–10 days in advance of the event.