Classes Instructed by Dody DiSanto.
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FALL 2008 NEUTRAL MASK INTENSIVE FRI, SAT & SUN Friday 7 - 10pm Class location: The Center - DC Due with Registration: $50 deposit Open to individuals of all levels, the weekend intensive provides an exposure to the work with the neutral mask. Please see the description for the Comprehensive I class, below. This will give you an idea of the territory we will be delving into. To receive proper training in the neutral mask, it is highly recommended that you take the Comprehensive Program. This course is open to individuals of all levels. Third Annual NY CLOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 5 - 28 ENSEMBLE ADVENTURES IN CLOWN An opportunity to expand your clown world on a journey with others, this class will build an ensemble presentation that shines a light on the spectrum of clown including both solo and group work. We will spend a few days developing a piece employing nourishing methods for creating work in community. The idea is to present what we have developed as a part of the festival. I will bring in the working theme - we will take stock of who we are and proceed in the spirit of hope. The red nose – the smallest mask – is both the great liberator and severe task-master. It brings out transparency in the actor and reveals us in all of our wonderful and complicated simplicity. It is an exploration, a risky romp, a safari to the source where each of us is both the searcher and the guide. Open to anyone willing to check their head at the door! Information: bricktheater.com COMPREHENSIVE I SEPTEMBER 30 - DECEMBER 16 12 WEEKS Tuesday nights 7 - 10pm Due with Registration: $100 deposit Recommended to all levels of ability, this class is the foundation for all the classes at the center for movement theatre. The comprehensive program will cover the entire thrust of the Neutral Mask work including all supporting structures:
Utilizing the innate wisdom of the body, the neutral mask enables us to find freedom, awareness and expression. It is a foundation and point of reference for building all character. It pushes us to our growing edge, guides us into a dialogue with our habits and arrives at the truth through essential gesture. The neutral mask is in fact a full-face mask that you wear through a series of exercises. The mask engages a large space and beckons you to expand your presence. The lines and planes of the mask correspond to universal rhythms in nature. Through “identifying” with nature, we translate into action the sensations aroused through resonating with the “essence of life”: a method encouraging the actor to discover physical movements and to feel the structure and force of spatial dynamics. It allows us to experience how the great movements of nature correspond to the most intimate movements of human emotion. It is a refining process of separating "self" from "characterization". It provides a clear slate upon which we can inscribe character. The neutral mask was created by Jacques Lecoq and sculptor Amleto Sartori. Lecoq was inspired by a mask that Jacques Copeau was experimenting with. Copeau called it the “noble mask” and was using it to help actors expand their presence. While assisting Giorgio Strehler in 1947, helping to start the Piccolo Teatro School in Italy, Lecoq met Sartori, a master mask-maker for the company. Together, they embarked on the journey to develop and refine this tool. The neutral mask became the basis of Lecoq’s pedagogy and the formation of an actor training program, pursuing a theatre of creation. Working with THE NEUTRAL MASK will: • broaden your play There are 3 masks: the one we think we are, This course is open to individuals of all levels. WINTER 2009 BUFFOON INTENSIVE FRI, SAT & SUN Friday 7 - 10pm Class location: The Center - DC Due with Registration: $50 deposit Buffoons come from somewhere else. They are connected to the verticality of mystery. They are part of the relationship between heaven and earth, of which they reverse their values. They spit on the heavens and invoke the earth. Buffoons are organized hierarchically, and live in a perfect society without conflict, where each person finds their exact place. They exhibit before us, in an anomalous manner - close to a parade, our proper folly. They play our society, the themes of power, science, religion, the organized follies according to precise rules, where the most feeble may be in charge of everyone. The buffoons denounce and at the same time propose a tragic space. CLOWN INTENSIVE FRI, SAT & SUN Friday 7 - 10pm Class location: The Center - DC Due with Registration: $50 deposit A riotous inquiry...a playful encounter... a look at our laughable & loveable selves. The clown beckons us to reveal the child-like wonder inside. We love clowns because they make us laugh while revealing the range of powerful mythical and emotional archetypes within each one of us. To find your clown is to tap into your own, personal source of spontaneous expressiveness and to experience the pleasure of play. Clowning is one of the purest forms of improvisation. This course is open to individuals of all levels. Limited space - Register now! COMPREHENSIVE II PROGRAM FEBRUARY 17 - MAY 5 12 WEEKS Tuesday nights 7 - 10pm Due with Registration: $100 deposit The Comprehensive II Program is an extension of the Comprehensive Program I, which focused on the neutral mask and dynamic studies. It is intended for serious minded individuals looking for training that addresses the inherent dynamic wisdom of the body as a vehicle to find freedom, awareness and expression in performance. The Comprehensive Program II will cover:
We will refer back to the neutral mask throughout the course, as a point of reference for calm, balance and silence. Analysis of movement and corporeal education are a part of every class, as a certain level of fitness and physical commitment reinforce and enable the work. In Dynamic Studies, we enter into an abstract dimension, working with universal experiences and sensations that are common to us all – such as color, light, sound, poetry, and substances. Through the recognition and identification of these dynamic territories, we discover the subtlety of gestural nuance and encounter how nature informs art. Larval Masks are large, simplified masks which have not quite resolved themselves into real human features. They are brought to life through rhythm and the architecture of the body. Utilitarian Masks are those that we use to protect ourselves – gas masks, fencing, welding, hockey, etc. They make for interesting creative play and beckon essential action. 
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