Thursday, September 20, 2012

Мастер Класс - Нейтральная маска



Нейтральная Маска - Мастер Клас - Oктябрь 2012 

Площадь Конституции 26, Дом Науки и Техники,  4эт, зал 411, Студия Контактной Импровизации.

Учение нейтральной маски положено в основу подготовки актера по методу Жака Лекока. 

Нейтральная маска является отправной точкой для построения актерского образа. Знание Нейтральной маски освобождает актера от сценических надуманности, предрассудков и клише. Нейтральная маска затрагивает глубокие слои подсознания, изучения ее рекомендуется не только актерам и режиссерам а так же людям интересующимся психологией человека. Нейтральная маска является конкретным объектом с которым мы проводим работу, а также состоянием необходимым для вхождения в игровое пространство. 

Метод Жака Лекока давно стал одной из ведущих педагогических платформ помимо метода Станиславского. В учебных учреждениях Восточной Европы метод Жака Лекока практически не представлен.

Участие в Мастер Классе позволит вам значительно расширить выразительный диапазон вашего тела, преодолеть суету на сцене и покажет новые пути 
взаимодействия актера со сценическим пространством.

Инструктаж по нейтральной маске проводят выпускники Лондонской школы Педогогики Лекока, Сандро Гарибашвили и Мария Коренева.

По окончанию школы Маша и Сандро обосновали театральную команду Eleffantfoot в Чикаго которая успела порадовать зрителей 
многими спектаклями, а колег по мастерству, инструктажам по методу Лекока.

В Украине Маша и Сандро провели развернутые Мастер Классы по методу Лекока в 2005-07 году.

Необходимо для участников: Способность свободно двигаться, одежда черного цвета. Участникам мастер класса желательна 
возможность посетить все занятия.


Мастер Класс длится 4 дня.
Цена - 600 гр, 500 гр, по предоплате.
            
20-21ое Окт 10:00 - 16:30
300 гр за выходные, 250 гр по предоплате

27-28ое Окт 10:00 - 16:30
300 гр за выходные, 250 гр по предоплате


Сандро - g.alexander.9@gmail.com
0636201321 - life

Маша - eleffant-foot@hotmail.com

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Monday, September 17, 2012

A.W.O.L. or THE WAR OF BOUFFON



2009 - Eleffant Foot Theater Company presented A.W.O.L - a highly charged physical performance with  haunting sounds of live Middle Eastern drumming and ecstatic poetry.

Where:  Peter Jones Gallery Theater, 1806 W. Cuyler, Chicago, IL

When:  June 5th through June 28th,
             Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 4pm,
             special free show Saturday June 6th at 4:30pm

Directed by: Masha Kore Neva
Designed by: Masha Kore Neva and Michael Day
Live Music by: Dana Dardai and Jake Vaness
Shadow puppets by: Barbara Swem
Created and Performed by: Jesica Farmer, Jeff Trainor, Sandro Garibashvili, Alexander Knapp, Eva Sirp, Eliza Burmester and Matt Paterson.


AWOL comes from a place of anger and bitterness of watching the Middle East - US conflict evolve and escalate into the Tragedy of the Iraq War. The action takes place in Babylon, the ancient kingdom of Ur, the mysteries of ancient times and contemporary zeal of destruction are explored through the poetry of Biblical Apocalypses and contemporary imagery. The story, devised by the actors, based on the research of documentary materials from the War, is centered around two US Army officers that go AWOL during one of the military operations and find themselves lost in the desert wilderness with Baghdad far behind. We use the bouffons as a supporting chorus to demonstrate the pure Idiocy of War and our own misconceptions of it.



















                              


"Earnest, willing and perpetually child-like, Eleffant foot's  chorus of undifferentiated bouffons are like a group of renegade teletubbies: they gurgle, coo and clown their way through the various scenarios, alternating roles of aggressor and victim with mercurial facility.  As such, they require a suspension of disbelief as well as of narrative sense making: they are not telling a story so much as embodying human absurdity.  Their world might not make sense in a linear fashion, yet the relationships and activities they unmask feel perfectly believable and paradoxical: thus war itself is exposed as sanctioned insanity...."
Keralee Frobell
 

Monday, August 27, 2012

SPLASHES and MEZZA VERITA




2012 - SPLASHES

A mixed media project with live painting, movement and music. Four actors and artists explore the theme of loneliness of our urban world.

Written and Performed by: Luka Vardiashvili, Patrice Poor, Masha Kore Neva, Sandro Garibashvili.

Set Design by - Masha Kore Neva, Patrice Poor, Luka Vardiashvili

Presented at the Hartenberg International Theater festival. Summer 2012.

















MEZZA VERITA

            

2008 - Mezza Verita, the mindbending signature piece from Eleffant Foot co, hit the stage to rave reviews in Chicago, inspired by the wondering paintings of Armenian born artist Narasyan. The piece follows the story of two actors stranded in a castle, playing multiple characters and situations as each actor undergoes tremendous physical transformation. Mezza Verita received critics choice in the Chicago Reader. In English and Italian.

Costume and set design: Masha Koreneva, Ivan Trava.
Written and performed by: Sandro Garibashvili and Masha Kore Neva







Monday, May 28, 2012

About Us

ABOUT US:

Sandro Garibashvili and Masha Kore Neva completed their theatrical training at the London International School of Performing Arts (www.lispa.co.uk). Soon thereafter they founded the Eleffant Foot Theater Company,  born in High Gate, London, in the frenzy of 2005 they soon moved to the USA, and went through many theatre adventures in the, disproportionally theatrical, city of Chicago. In 2006 came, '010101' and, 'Mezza Verita' - two signature style, duo, performances of the Company.
Summers were spent in Ukraine, teaching young people to have choices and built opposition to the mainstream theatre. In 2007, Masha attended the Lill Street art school in Chicago, adding some ceramic skills to her exploration of the human nature in arts. That same year, they traveled to the Toronto International Fringe. Their version of 'Don Quixote or Two Figs for the Great Captain,'  - had a smashing success in renegade circles of the festival, those who don't stand in cues for musicals. They rocked Chicago with their anti-musical bouffant war story, A.W.O.L in 2009 and were invited as headliners for a new International Theater Workshop-Festival in Hartenberg, Czech Republic, in the summer of 2011. There they presented their new punk-rock drama, 'Orange' and lead a 5 day performance workshop for 50 participants from all corners of Europe. Besides, while Masha is getting deeper and deeper into clay work, Sandro is finishing up his first action fantasy movie script and looking for an island where he can freely stage all the special effects the script demands. 






Last year we were invited to be guest teachers at the Hartenberg International Theater Festival in Czech Republic, where we led a mass performance workshop with some 50 participants. Here is a looooooong video of that joyous event.




Wednesday, March 28, 2012


THE ODYSSEY (EXCERPT)
STREET THEATER 
ELEFFANT FOOT

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Let's Hit the Road!

Eleffant Foot Theater is gearing up to hit the road this summer with a remake of it's moving production of '010101' a futuristic Don Qixotian sega, about two lost souls striving for meaning and understanding in a world gone mad. Will they succeed in reaching their bliss? Or will the relentless dream machine, swallow them into the virtual abyss forever? Leave your bugs on the shelf and come see for yourself. Locations will be announced. 


'010101...'
Undoom Yourself!