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2008 PERFORMANCE WORKSHOPS

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Physical Practice/Imaginal Play

Weekend performance training workshops addressing the bridge between physicality and imagination.

Since 1995 Barry Laing has been developing strategies in performance founded in movement and physical training; measures of scale, choreographic awareness, and image-sense. These workshops are an introduction to this practice.

Participants will explore form, space, ‘music’, image and text via structured improvisations and strategies for ensemble and individual work.

These workshops are suited to a wide range of performance-makers: actors, dancers, improvisers, directors, choreographers and educators etc.

Gain unique insights, skills, and techniques for devising performance work and developing choreography. Learn new physical and imaginal strategies and ways-in to addressing text as an actor, or working with text in interdisciplinary performance. Affirm, challenge and extend your own training and practice.

Participants are encouraged to come with a short text / texts learned by heart (not necessarily dramatic texts or monologues).

Costs: Full - $255, Part-employed - $ 225, Concession - $ 195

BOOKING ESSENTIAL - See How to Make WORKSHOP BOOKINGS

Contact: Ayesha Amos on Mob. 0466 632 933 or Email. blworkshops@yahoo.com.au

Barry Laing is an acclaimed teacher & award-winning director, dramaturge, & performer with a wide and eclectic range of experience in many performance contexts, including theatre, dance and visual arts. He has worked & trained extensively in Europe & Australia since 1989 with Philippe Gaulier, Monika Pagneux, Theatre de Complicite, Pantheatre, Al Wunder & Anzu Furukawa.

Selected participant feedback — Physical Practice/Imaginal Play 2007:

“The workshop was intense, insightful and hugely enjoyable. I highly recommend it to performers and creators of dance and theatre alike.”

“The group experienced a wonderful warmth and positive sense of hard work in the workshop.”

“I enjoyed the workshop immensely, I had fun, I was challenged creatively and imaginatively and I went away with some new ideas about how to do things differently in my own practice.”

“Completely genuine, un-pretentious and generous. (Barry Laing’s) enthusiasm was infectious.”

“(Barry Laing) shared (his) wide-ranging knowledge and practical experience in a generous and accessible way. It was a pleasure to be able to work with such a highly trained practitioner and enthusiastic teacher.”

How to Make WORKSHOP BOOKINGS

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For all Workshops (Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane):

BOOKING ESSENTIAL

Costs; Full $255, Part-employed $ 225, Concession $ 195

To secure a place in the Workshop in MELBOURNE
a min. $50 deposit is payable by Wed 22 October 2008 - COMPLETED

To secure a place in the Workshop in PERTH
a min. $50 deposit is payable by Wed 19 November 2008

To secure a place in the Workshop in BRISBANE
a min. $50 deposit is payable by Wed 26 November 2008

1) Forward a brief Bio/Resume with your full name, email and phone numbers/s to blworkshops@yahoo.com.au stating;
a) your interest and intention to book
b) 'Full'/'Part-employed'/'Concession'

2 a) Pay deposit or complete fee by Bank Transfer to:

Barry Laing
ANZ
BSB 013 481
Acct 5945 31211

b) Place 'WS (your city)(initial surname)' in Message reference
(eg. WS Bris C Smith )

3) Phone Ayesha Amos on 0466 632 933 should you require assistance

4) Your booking will be confirmed by email within 3 working days

5) Tax Invoices/receipts will be provided upon receipt of complete fee

Brief Bio - BARRY LAING

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Barry Laing is an award-winning director, dramaturge, performer & teacher with a wide and eclectic range of experience in many performance contexts, including theatre, dance and visual arts.

He has worked & trained extensively in Europe & Australia since 1989 with Philippe Gaulier, Monika Pagneux, Theatre de Complicite, Pantheatre, Al Wunder & Anzu Furukawa.

Barry co-founded Ex-Stasis Theatre Collective in 1992 & co-directed, adapted & performed in Beautiful Mutants for the Festival of Perth in 1993.

He was the co-recipient of the Gloria Payten & Gloria Dawn Foundations Traveling Fellowship, 1998.

Barry has worked extensively as a director and performance consultant with desoxy Theatre, The Business, Born in A Taxi, Deborah Hay, Emma Bathgate, Corpora, The Magic Bike Group, Is Theatre Ltd, Ozanam Community Centre, The Relocated Arts Project, The Amazing Business (Space Munki), The Ennio Morricone Experience (The Session – Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, 2006), Blue Vault, and Stuart Orr (Telefunken – inaugural Melbourne Fringe Touring Award, 2005; Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne and Queens Theatre, Adelaide), X:Machine and Panther.

He has performed a series of solo works — Rapture I, II, III in Melbourne & the UK (1997-2001).

In 2007 he began development of a new work, Man in the Moon, adapted from a short story by Australian writer Gail Jones.

Barry has developed unique performance training strategies and delivered a series of innovative workshops for actors, dancers, directors, musicians, choreographers, writers etc in Australia and UK (PICA, Dancehouse, Cecil St Studio, Body Voice Centre, Dartington College of the Arts, Royal Holloway College – Uni. London) 1995–present.

He is also a lecturer and teacher at, for example, Monash University, Victoria University, Deakin University and Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne – Drama School & Centre for Ideas.

He completed a PhD in Performance Studies, VU, 2002.

Publications include: ‘Pseudologia Phantastica: Performance, Discursive Lies and Critical Fictions’, Double Dialogues, Issue 8, Summer 2007/08; ‘Physical Practice/Imaginal Play: Un-disciplining the Performer’, Australasian Drama Studies, (forthcoming, 'Lineages' Issue 2008); ‘Walking the Imagination’(Lone Twin), Realtime, Issue 70, 2005; ‘The Knife and the Stethoscope: Pedagogy in Performance’, Realtime, Issue 38, 2000; ‘Beautiful Mutants’ with David Williams in R. Allen & K. Pearlman eds. Performing the Unnameable: An Anthology of Australian Performance Texts, Sydney: Currency Press, 1999; ‘Little Tyrannies, Bigger Lies: a Letter from the Other Side’ in ‘On Place’, Performance Research, 3, 2 Summer 1998.

Recent Work - MAN IN THE MOON (First Phase)

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2007 – Director and co-producer, Man in the Moon, creative development and showing of an adaptation of Australian writer Gail Jones’ short story ‘The Man in the Moon’ – supported by Arts Victoria, Dancehouse, Melbourne, VIC

Performer/devisers: Peter Fraser, Halcyon McLeod, Tamara Searle

Photos: Jeff Busby

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Recent Work - THE SESSION

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2006 – Director, The Session, The Ennio Morricone Experience — Beckett Theatre, Malthouse, Melbourne, VIC

2006 – Director, The Session, The Ennio Morricone Experience — creative development and showing of new theatre work – inSPACE, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA

Performer/devisers: Boris Conley, Patrick Cronin, David Hewitt, Graeme Leak, Steph O'Hara, Stephen Taberner

Photos: Jeff Busby

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Recent Work - TELEFUNKEN

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2006 – Director, Stuart Orr’s Telefunken — Malthouse Theatre, Adelaide Fringe Festival – Queens Theatre, Adelaide, SA

2005 – Director, Stuart Orr’s Telefunken — Adelaide Fringe Touring Award — Malthouse Theatre and Melbourne Fringe Festival — Tower Theatre, Malthouse, VIC

Written and Performed by: Stuart Orr

Photos: Jeff Busby

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Training / Devising - INNER CITIES

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2004 – Director, Inner Cities, Blue Vault — The Foundry, Melbourne, VIC

2003 — Founded new Melbourne-based theatre ensemble Blue Vault — first performance season, Inner Cities, The Foundry, July/August, 2004

Blue Vault: Glynis Angell, Peter Fraser, Moni Hunt, Barry Laing, Jacqeline Low, Olaf Savage, Nancy Sposato

Photos: Barry Laing

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Solo Performance - RAPTURE I, II, III

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2001 – Writer/deviser/performer and video artist – solo performance work, Rapture III – Dancehouse, Melbourne, VIC

2000 – Writer/deviser/performer and video artist – solo performance work, Rapture II – Dartington, Devon, UK

1999 – Writer/deviser/performer and video artist – solo performance work, Rapture II – La Mama Theatre, Melbourne, VIC

1997 – Writer/performer/deviser of solo performance work Rapture, in Soloscopy – a season of three solos (with Daniel Witton & Adam Broinowski) – La Mama Theatre, Melbourne, VIC

Photos: Kim Cullen

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Selected PUBLICATIONS

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Barry Laing, ‘Pseudologia Phantastica: Performance, Discursive Lies and Critical Fictions’, Double Dialogues, Issue 8, Summer 2007/08 (http://www.doubledialogues.com/issue_eight/laing.html)

Barry Laing, ‘Physical Practice/Imaginal Play: Un-disciplining the Performer’, Australasian Drama Studies, (forthcoming, 'Lineages' Issue, 2008)

Barry Laing, ‘Walking the Imagination’ (Lone Twin), Realtime, Issue 70, 2006 (http://www.realtimearts.net/article/70/7963)

‘The Knife and the Stethoscope: Pedagogy in Performance’, Realtime, Issue 38, 2000

Barry Laing, ‘Beautiful Mutants’ with David Williams in R. Allen & K. Pearlman eds. Performing the Unnameable: An Anthology of Australian Performance Texts, Sydney: Currency Press, 1999, pp. 115-128.

Barry Laing, ‘Little Tyrannies, Bigger Lies: a Letter from the Other Side’ in ‘On Place’, Performance Research, 3, 2, 1998, pp. 27-31.