your expressive range unwanted physical and vocal habits a greater awareness of your body, time and space your fullest potential for performance success
FoolsFURY is dedicated to providing unique, cutting-edge theater training opportunities to the public. Each year we offer a series of courses taught by the foolsFURY ensemble, and other master teachers from around the world. These explorations expand theater makers’ repertoires, help access the body and voice as a powerful storytelling tool, and unlock new areas of creativity.
Our credo: on some level every moment of every play should be viewed in the same heightened manner as a musical number in a Broadway show, or an elegant modern dance. Every line of dialogue, every pause, the sound of every foot hitting the floor is the performer’s song. Every movement, every gesture, and every exit and entrance is part of an intricate choreography. Attention and focus are what make stellar theatrical experiences. Rigor, focus, and exploration are what makes brilliant performers.
In recent years we have taught at universities across the country, as well as at the La Mama director’s symposium in Umbria, Italy. We have also been proud to host such stellar teachers as Mary Overlie, the SITI Company, Stephen Wangh, Michael Lugering, Ron Campbell, and more, teaching diverse techniques including Viewpoints, Suzuki, LeCoq and Grotowski.
For more of our philosophy on training for theater-makers, read this article.
For more information on upcoming programs, please contact foolsFURY’s Education Director, Debórah Eliezer
Guest Artists: Tommy Shepherd & Dan Wolf
Monday, June 13th, 6:30-9:30
Using scenes from the play 1st elements (who shot miguelito?) participants will explore three separate “layers” of performance – text, rhythm, rhyme. The three-hour workshop will include basic rhythm exercises to develop focus, free play and imagination, an exploration of coro, solo and duo scenes from the play, and ultimately the opportunity to create short, original rap and rhythm theater pieces.
Registration Details:
Date/Time: June 13th, 6:30-9:30pm
Location: TJT performance space, 470 Florida St, San Francisco 94110
Fee: $75 General
Discounts: $50 Student w/ID, $35 FURY Factory Artist Participant
Register: www.brownpapertickets.com
Saturday, June 18th, 2-5pm
Are you a theater artist interested in teaching? Are you a teacher interested in bringing theater into your classroom? Are you an experienced theater teacher looking for some new techniques for working with teens? Join Ensemble Director Anna Shneiderman and the teen artists of the Ragged Wing Youth Ensemble for a workshop on creating original, ensemble-based theater with diverse teen actors. In this hands-on workshop, Ragged Wing will provide you with a number of proven tools for creating original, ensemble theater with teens. Get tips on what works well from experienced teachers and the students themselves. Receive personal attention and feedback. End the workshop with an in-class theatrical showing created by you and our youth actors. Recommended for teachers, actors, directors and anyone interested in creating ensemble theater with teens or using theater methods in core content area classrooms.
Registration Details:
Date/Time: June 18th, 2-5pm
Location: TJT performance space, 470 Florida St, San Francisco 94110
Fee: $75 General
Discounts: $50 Student w/ID, $35 FURY Factory Artist Participant
Register: www.brownpapertickets.com
Guest Artist: Mary Overlie
Sunday, June 19th, 12-5:30pm
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to work with the incomparable Mary Overlie, originator of the Viewpoints approach to theater creation and training.
A brilliant teacher and innovator, Mary offers a distinct approach to re-conceiving theater, providing a practical and theoretical framework for making compelling, thought-provoking work. Mary teaches basic Viewpoints at her lab in the NYU Experimental Theater Wing, but rarely offers intermediate/advanced courses for the general public.
This course will focus on deconstructing theater and looking at the myriad possibilities that arise once we let go of our basic preconceptions about narrative and character. The workshop will challenge your known perceptions, spark your creativity, and empower you with new ways of relating to other performers and the audience.
Registration Details:
Date/Time: June 19th, 12-5:30pm
Location: TJT performance space, 470 Florida St, San Francisco 94110
Fee: $150 General
Discounts: $100 Student w/ID, $75 FURY Factory Artist Participant
Register: www.brownpapertickets.com
Once registered, you’ll receive confirmation and further workshop details via email Register full payment online with credit card and contact information at:http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/162475
Once registered, you’ll receive confirmation and further workshop details via email.
