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Laboratories led by Robin Riegels Sat-Sun 1–9 June (Laboratory 1) | Fri-Fri 14–21 June (Laboratory 2) Brzezinka, the forest base of the Grotowski Institute Fee The participation fee is 120 EUR for each laboratory. The fee covers lodging, food and transport from Wroc³aw to Brzezinka and from Brzezinka to Wroc³aw. Contact and application Please send your application form and CV to robin.riegels@gmail.com. The deadline for applying is 28 April 2013. You are encouraged to participate in both laboratories, as it will allow for more profound research and collaboration. The artistic research We will compose dramatic structures with meta-dramaturgies using texts from a new performance project “Vacuum”. Inside the structures we will explore the mind’s manipulation of the voice, the actions of the body, the audience, the interpretation of spoken text. How to reduce the manipulation of the mind, and in what way will it affect fear, presence, self-consciousness, organic flow of the body actions, speaking/singing, and thus the overall performing style and quality in the expression of the performer? Participants will be: • professional performers or performing arts students • interested in being and doing rather than acting (pretending) • interested in long-term collaboration in projects and research Practical information • There will be maximum 6 performers per laboratory. • The working language will be English.  Robin Riegels has long experience worldwide as a stage director, teacher and performer. He has studied performing arts in Ireland and Italy, and worked as a professional for 18 years. He made his debut as performer in Dublin, Ireland (1991), playing the main role in In the Penal Colony by Steven Berkoff. In 1995 Riegels directed his first performance at Hordaland Teater (Norway). Later he studied and worked at the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards for seven years (1999–2006). Riegels has been based in Norway since 2007, directing and teaching inside and outside major institutions and touring abroad. More: robinriegels.wordpress.com  |