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ATME minutes from the ATHE National Conference, August 2010 (pdf)
ATHE ATME Business Meeting (pdf)
From Michael Lugering:
A couple of things to announce that are most exciting here at the Expressive Actor.
First, my book The Expressive Actor: Integrated Voice, Movement & Acting Training has been revised and expanded in a second edition available this October in the U.S. from Routledge Theatre and Performance. The book increased by 30,000 words and is completely reorganized. It's a real second edition, and I am most pleased with the results.
Second, I have received a sizable grant for a media documentation project. We will begin filming in December and do the editing in Spring. Routledge Theatre & Performance has expressed an interest in curating the content. The media materials will provide a much needed audio-visual supplement to the book.
Third, recently we have added four new individuals to the teaching certification program: Shelley Lynn, Fulton Burns, Marybeth Holloway and Felicia Myers. Welcome aboard! Additionally, Kristen Loree was designated an Associate Teacher this summer.
Four, we've got several training intensives again this year in Las Vegas and Chicago. Please consider joining us.
Michael Lugering
Expressive Actor
Yoav Kaddar is now at WVU, Director of the Dance Program in the Division of Theatre and Dance. He is still working with Theatre majors and this spring will be choreographing Guys and Dolls for the Division. Most of his work will be concentrated on moving the dance minor into a major—it is the largest and oldest minor on campus, established in 1929 and currently has close to 100 minors. Once established this will be the only Dance major offered in WVU system.
He was in Boston this summer staging/choreographing for the professional signing group Tapestry http://www.tapestryboston05.com/) The premier was in Ottawa and then a performance at the Smithsonian in DC. They will be touring the piece around the country this year as well as internationally.
Tom Casciero, Theatre Movement Specialist, Towson University
Tom is on sabbatical leave this fall and will begin working with Teatro Abya Yala in Costa Rica. Together they will explore a variety of devising techniques. Tom will introduce his Neo-surreal approach to devising and in turn he will study and experience Abya Yala’s multiple approaches. Founders Roxana Avilo and David Korish, are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the company next year and have invited Tom to become a full collaborator in the creation and development of a Balagan-style performance piece. It will be presented in San Jose in August, 2011. Multiple “authors/auteurs” will research the aesthetics of this performance style and then work together to create a multidisciplinary intervention in alternative space(s). This event will be produced in conjunction with the Association Cultural para las Artes Escénicas and Teatro Abya Yala.
Sheila Kerrigan premieres a new performance piece: Mime Explains String Theory, or Mime Explains Life, Death, a serio-comedy performance with quirky humor and uplifting surprises.
November 5-7, 2010 at the Durham Arts Council in Durham, NC. 919-9424264. http://www.collaborativecreativity.com
Stefan Sittig is currently choreographing Chicago at Georgetown University. He recently directed and choreographed Jerry's Girls (an all female review of the music of Jerry Herman) at the Alden Theatre, receiving rave reviews from Washington D.C. area critics. This fall he began his 8th year teaching at University of Maryland University College, where he is currently Professor of Humanities & Theatre and he was just nominated, for the 2nd year in a row, for the Stanley J. Drazek Teaching Excellence Award. Stefan is currently developing a new musical about Josephine Baker entitled Two Loves which is scheduled for production in the D.C area in early 2012. For more information: www.stefansittig.com
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