Train with East Coast Artists in the RasaBoxes Approach at Ithaca College this summer. The training will be held June 12 through June 24, 2006.
What are the RasaBoxes?
Devised by Richard Schechner, the RasaBoxes exercises are a psychophysical approach to performer training that combine classical Indian ideas about acting and emotion, contemporary theories of emotion coming from psychology and neurobiology, and twentieth century French theorist Antonin Artaud's demand that actors be "athletes of the emotions."
East Coast Artists' two-week RasaBoxes Training Intensives engage the participant in rigorous daily training including yoga, extensive work in breath, voice and movement, soma-sensory and psychophysical work, and solo and ensemble-generated performance composition developed from the RasaBoxes material. Over 80 hours of in-class, intensive training.
For a complete description of the workshop, teachers, ECA background information, and for information about tutition and registration please visit our website at www.ithaca.edu/cess/eastcoastartists.
Last year's workshop included an international, multigenerational group of participants from a variety of disciplines. It was exciting to see these participants break through into a new sense of ready access to their creative engagement with a broad range of emotional and energetic states. We share our students' excitement about the RasaBoxes work and look forward to training new groups of participants in this approach.
To read an article from ICQ about last summer's work, visit
www.ithaca.edu/icq/2005v3/aluminaries/alumi2.htm
