The Body as Container of Human Impulses II
A Chinese Language Theatre Workshop with
Tang Shu-wing, Renowned Hong Kong Director

Date:                        4 July (Sun) to 10 July (Sat) 2010
Time:                       12.00pm to 6.00pm daily
Language:               Conducted in Mandarin
Venue:                  TTRP Studio 1

Following The Body as Container of Human Impulses, the prelude workshop held in December 2009, Tang Shu-wing will work with the participants to explore his unique method of approach acting. While the prelude workshop focused on an actor’s work and himself (including monologues), this workshop will focus on working with other actors on stage, using dialogues, interactions, etc.

Workshop Outline
Every day, the workshop will start with intensive physical training followed by these areas of work:

·       Exploration with different elements of human expression:

Voice, Respiration, Facial Expression, Gesture and Displacement;

·       Improvisation with these elements;

·       Imagination and Impulse through a physical task;

·       Formation of movement choreography; and

·       Improvisation with dialogues taken from texts of Shakespeare  

Fees
S$300 per person (original value S$800)
Pay Only S$250 for registration by 21 May 2010!

Registration

The workshop is targeted at theatre actors and/or directors who have vast stage experience and are conversant in Mandarin. Due to the nature of the workshop, participants are also required to possess a certain level of physical agility. E-mail your name, CV and contact to blancspace@dramabox.org or call: 6324 5434. Applicants will go through a stringent selection process based on experience and the materials submitted. We regret that only successful applicants will be notified. Registration closes 18 June 2010.

About Tang Shu-wing
Described by Parole Magazine of l’Alliance Francaise as “one of the most talented theatre directors of Hong Kong”, Tang Shu-wing is the Dean of Drama at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA).  Trained as a lawyer, Tang turned to the theatre arts and had graduated with a Maitrise Certificat in theatre studies from the Universite de la Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, in 1990. He founded and has been the Artistic Director of No Man’s Land (Hong Kong) since 1997.

During his stay in France, he was greatly attracted to the ideas of “theatre of the convention” of Meyerhold and “poor theatre” of Grotowski. For him, theatre is a way to experience life through self-discovery. He has been constantly pursuing a theatre which can trigger the maximum imagination through minimalist aesthetics. His works, ranging from solo to large scale classics and from multi-media productions to cross-cultural collaborations, have been presented in many different cities, including Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Macau, San Francisco and Sydney etc. As a director, Tang has directed over 35 productions of drama and dance. Most recently, he was invited by the School of Drama of Carnegie Mellon University to direct The Other Shore by Gao Xingjian in 2008.

His major awards include consecutive wins as The Best Director at the Hong Kong Drama Awards (2006 & 2007); the l’Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres bestowed by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication (2007); and the Award for Arts Achievement (Drama) granted by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council for his achievement and contribution in dramatic arts in 2008.

The Blanc Space Masterclass Series is organised by Drama Box, in partnership with the National Arts Council (Singapore), to provide a training platform for Singapore Chinese language theatre practitioners to learn and work closely with theatre masters from the region as well as explore the language of contemporary Chinese language theatre.