ORIENTATION Lab
Feb 14 - March 21. Six Sunday Nights, 8pm-11pm.
Wildcat Studio, 2525 Eighth St., Berkeley. Facilitated by Antero Alli
NOTE: THIS LAB IS NOW IN PROGRESS.
This ORIENTATION LAB is dedicated to the basic training
of movement, ritual, vocal, and internal processes innate
to this paratheatre medium in three areas of self-work:
SHADOW WORK
Rituals and movement forms that expose unconscious and often self-destructive attitudes, complexes, and beliefs towards their transformation into more creative expression and spontaneity. This process can be supported and accomplished with technique work.
TECHNIQUE WORK
The structural integrity of this ritual technology is maintained by a web of techniques that include: No-Form, Polarizations, Contact Point, Vocalizations, Verticality, The Warm-Up Cycles, Resonance, Service, Containment, Immersion, Sanctification, Movement Vocabulary, Spatial Awareness, Jogging Forms, Ritual Actions, Prayer. The purpose of technique is to bring more precision and structure into the expression of source work.
SOURCE WORK
Nurtures a more direct experience of the currents of energy in the body itself and also, throughout the internal landscape of the soul's domain. This process deepens the capacity to give oneself totally to a given source, force, or state, towards a more full-embodied engagement and expression of ourselves in presence, action, stillness, sound, and gesture.
NOTE: This is a non-performance lab.
The "pressure to perform" will be released and replaced by the self-created
pressures of building internal commitment to presence, expession, action.
Much of this initial training process occurs in solitude as each individual
works to expand their access and expression of sources of energy
in the body itself and the internal landscape the body
(when felt deeply enough) can become a door to.
True initiation does not require ritual to occur; it is a spiritual event.
At best a ritual can act as a device or a tool to assist the expression
and integration of genuine initiation -- that which has never occured
to one before and for which one can never truly be prepared.
The first initiation is Self-initiation -- the exposure of oneself to oneself.
This means to leave the self-conscious watcher behind and enter the
circle of participation. Words...images...explanations all belong to
the watcher. To the participant -- experience is everything.
-- Antero Alli
ORIENTATION LAB PARTICIPANTS (11)
MADELINE H.D. BROWN, JUSTIN GORDON,
VELEDA, FINLEY KIPP, JONATHAN FURST,
JEFFREY FISHER, ILYA PARIZHSKY,
ELAN DIA, MASUDA JAMSHID,
BRENDAN RAMSDEN, TIGRIS.
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Lab Participation Prerequisites
