Summer 2018 Open Training Sessions!

We’re delighted to announce that during July and August APL is inviting performers interested in rigorous, practical work engaging essential elements of the performer’s craft to participate in our twice-weekly ensemble training. Performing artists with an openness to embodied exploration are welcome regardless of experience or discipline.

Interested? Sign up here: https://goo.gl/forms/rJR29Gg4L0hflpdu2 or keep reading to learn more!

Our training objective:Living Impulses shaped by Deliberate Form piloted by an Engaged Mind

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Joseph Lavy, Annie Paladino, Emily Jo Testa: Plastiques

 

When:  July 5 – August 16, 2018

Wednesdays – Voice (7:30 pm – 9:30 pm)

  • Listening
  • Impulse, Breath, Tone, Resonance, Shared Voice
  • Harmonic/Polyphonic/Overtone Singing

Thursdays – Body (7:30 pm – 9:30 pm)

  • The Basics: Awareness, Presence, Contact
  • Plasticity: The shape and flow of associations
  • Corporeality: Identifying, owning, and surpassing our personal limitations
  • The Tangible World: Deep play at the intersection of attention, action, and objects

 

 

 

Introductory Intensive: To accelerate participants’ experience we are also offering an 8 hour Introductory Intensive – June 30 & July 1 – during which we will provide a beginner-focused introduction to APL’s core principles, exercises, songs, and activities.

Participation in the Introductory Intensive is strongly encouraged but not required. Everyone is welcome on a drop in basis.

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APL corporeality training

 

Cost: Drop In Sessions: $20 per session or $25 per week if attending both voice and body training sessions (4 hours/week total)

Introductory Intensive: $80

Discounts:Participants in the Introductory Intensive will have a reduced drop-in fee of $10 per session/$20 per week.

We also offer discounts for paid-in-advance, multi-session commitments.  Situational sliding scale rates available

Sign Up: Interested? Click through to this simple form to let us know! https://goo.gl/forms/rJR29Gg4L0hflpdu2

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APL Offers Voice Workshop in Ohio

Co-Artistic Director Zhenya Lavy will lead a voice workshop — The Awakened Voice: Vocal Empowerment Through Song — in Akron OH on November 22. In this dynamic, vocal workout, which is hosted by Wandering Aesthetics, Zhenya will share tools and techniques she’s developed through 25 years of practical research to

  • awaken your complete instrument
  • expand your expressive capacity
  • build mindful, engaged, precise strategy for approaching song in the context of theatrical performance that is deeply musical but not musical theatre

Please help us get the word out to everyone interested in taking their vocal expressivity to the next level! We hope to see many of our Ohio friends there! Links of interest:

Click here for complete information, including the online registration form.

 

*** Reminder: This workshop is scheduled in coordination with Akropolis Performance Lab’s Ohio performances of The Glas Nocturne, Nov 20 (8pm) & Nov 21 (2pm & 8pm), which are presented by Akron’s Center for Applied Theatre and Active Culture/New World Performance Lab. Click here to reserve tickets for the performance! ***

Free Summer Workshop for Young Actors

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Akropolis Performance Lab continues its year of giving with an exciting, 8-week workshop for kids in middle or high school. Meets Saturday mornings, 10:30am – noon, from July 11 to August 29, in the Sand Point area of Seattle. Indoors and outdoors activity. Limited to 16 spots — don’t delay!

Click here for complete details and registration instructions.

Images from the Fall Workshop

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On October 18 & 19, we ran the first of our two Embodying the Impulse workshops. A brave, committed group met us in Edmonds at 8:00 am each morning and spent the next four hours exploring the oppositional elements of precision and spontaneity under the leadership of APL Co-Artistic Director Joseph Lavy. We managed to remember to shoot photos during just one little section of the work.

Our Donation Benefits You: Lowers Workshop Fees

APL's physical training incorporates not only codified exercises but also carefully developed games to enhance performer embodiment and engagement. | Joseph Lavy and the stick | Photo: Zhenya Lavy

Get 40% OFF your registration for one or both of APL’s fall workshops, thanks to a donation from a friend who wants the broadest range of artists exposed to our training.

Our foundational Embodying the Impulse series —  Spontaneity/Precision (Oct 18-19) and Voice (Nov 8-9) — offers a rare opportunity to expand your artistic presence through practices rooted in Central and Eastern European technique that you will not find taught elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest! Learn more about the workshops.

To activate your discount, register using this password: Polyphony