Introducing new Spring programs with Atlantic Acting School faculty members Kelly Maurer and Barney O’Hanlon! Explore Suzuki Method acting and physical acting techniques in this dynamic workshop.
The SUZUKI METHOD acting is a rigorous physical and vocal discipline striving to restore the wholeness of the body as a tool of theatrical expression. Focusing on the lower body and precise footwork, this method sharpens the actor’s breath control, concentration, and commitment to each moment of performance.
VIEWPOINTS is a technique of improvisation created by Mary Overlie that deconstructs the primary materials of performance and performance making into six primary studies: Space, Shape, Time, Emotion, Movement, and Story. Studying and practicing the Viewpoints empowers the individual performer in their own creativity while also empowering a group of artists to function together spontaneously and intuitively to create dynamic theatrical experiences in the present moment.
Participants should expect physically demanding and rigorous work in a safe, supportive, and nurturing environment. Please come dressed to move.
Kelly Maurer is a founding member of the SITI Company (artistic director, Anne Bogart). With the company, she has performed in many productions including Bobraushenberamerica and Radio Macbeth. Regionally, Kelly has been seen as Rainbow in Maria Irene Fornes’ And What of the Night and as Hamlet at Stagewest. Internationally, she has toured with director Tadashi Suzuki in the Suzuki Company of Toga’s production of Dionysus. She performed the role of Jolly (as stand-by for Patti Lupone) in The Old Neighborhood (Broadway) and Hermia in Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Playwrights Horizons). Kelly teaches the Suzuki Method of Actor Training and the Viewpoints Training with SITI, Atlantic Acting School, and NYU.
Barney O’Hanlon most recently appeared in FALLING & LOVING, SITI Company’s collaboration with Elizabeth Streb’s Extreme Action Company, choreographed by Elizabeth Streb, directed by Anne Bogart. Previously he appeared in SITI Company’s production of The Bacchae at the Guthrie. Also with SITI Company at BAM’s Next Wave: War of the Worlds, bobrauschenbergamerica, Hotel Cassiopeia, Trojan Women, A Rite (with Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company), and Steel Hammer with the Bang on a Can All-Stars. Featured in Ann Hamilton’s Event of the Thread at the Park Avenue Armory. Also at BAM: choreography and performance for Charles L. Mee’s The Glory of The World, directed by Les Waters. Barney choreographed the world premiere of Anne Washburn and Dave Malloy’s musical Little Bunny Foo Foo, directed by Les Waters at Actors Theatre of Louisville; Anne Washburn’s 10 out of 12 at Soho Rep, directed by Les Waters; and Sarah Ruhl’s The Oldest Boy, directed by Rebecca Taichman at Lincoln Center Theater.