The Urban Performance Project presents Ten weeks of Zero Hour Mutinies

This term, Para Active will invite tutors from various disciplines including Capoeira (Afro-Brazilian martial arts, acrobatics and music), mask (concentrating on Commedia dell'Arte - the improvised Italian form featuring stock characters) , Suzuki (physical performer training influenced by Tadashi Suzuki), Butoh (movement form improvised but not dictated by the outside and appearing from the interaction of the inner and outer world), African rhythms, songs, drumming and dance, text work (working on the embodied performer) and Corporeal Mime (a vocabulary of precise physical actions inspired by the work of Etienne Decroux) to work with us at Stratford Circus.

Participants will be invited to engage with an active culture through work on rhythm, dances, songs and theatrical acts in order to create a world rich in possibilities, excitement and chance encounters.

The work will inspire strong discipline as well as encouraging participants to take greater risks in their work. Through the disparate elements, performers can find their own voices, their own rhythms and their own performance potential. The workshops will provide a different insight into creating theatre and explore approaches to engaging with an audience.

A level of physical commitment will be expected.

The Zero Hour Mutinies will be a stepping stone for those who would like to participate in our professional touring work – part of the Aurora Nova festival at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2008.

For more information contact para actives course administrator Nwando Ebizie on nwando@para-active.com or contact Monika on 07885 736234.

Dates: Tues 29 April – Tues 08 July (no class on Tues 27 May)
Time: 6 - 9pm
Length: One week only
Fees: £45/£5 to those on benefits/fee remission
Location: Circus 2
Tutor: Para Active Company