The InterDependence Project Weekend Retreat: Moving the Mind with Jean-Claude van Itallie
with Jean-Claude van Itallie, Parlan McGaw and Rae C Wright
Friday – Sunday Feb. 3 – 5
Join us for a special weekend arts and meditation retreat.
In the belief that acting training is also training in being a human being, we'll examine how meditation helps us connect with our creativity and cultivate the mental focus, physical freedom, emotional range, and spontaneity that make for vibrant acting and vibrant living. This retreat a potentially transformational investigation of the process of "acting" meditation as we move through the world.
The IDP has invited renowned playwright and acting teacher Jean-Claude van Itallie to co-lead this workshop with Parlan McGaw, actor and meditation teacher, and Rae C Wright, actor, writer, and teacher. The workshop will include meditation instruction and practice, sensation & awareness exercises, contemplation exercises and improvisation — all designed to help us open the heart and deepen emotional authenticity, develop stronger presence and confidence, and strengthen our intuitive connections.
Open to all, from professional performer and avid meditator to those just beginning to explore new horizons.
Workshop Schedule
Friday Feb 3rd: 7-9pm
Saturday Feb. 4th: 10am-6pm
Sunday Feb. 5th: 10am-6pm
Participants will be encouraged to bring a light lunch and a few snacks for the day. Our "lunch break" will be brief, and the teachers have advised light stomachs for the workshop to help support somatic awareness.
Registration
Price: $ 180 for the weekend
Friday Night Preview Only – $ 20
IDP Member Discounts
$ 150 – Full Members
$ 90 – Sustaining or Visionary Members
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It is the intention of the IDP to make our programming accessible to those with limited finances. For guest workshops we have a limited number of reduced payment and workstudy options available. If you're interested please contact Caroline@theidproject.org for more info.
Teacher Bios
Jean-Claude van Itallie was a seminal force in the New York Off-Broadway theater of the sixties. His "America Hurrah" is considered the watershed anti-Viet Nam war play. His translations of Chekhov's major plays are produced around the country. In 2000 van Itallie performed his one-man show, "War Sex and Dreams." A student of Trungpa Rinpoche since 1968, van Itallie wrote the play, "Tibetan Book of the Dead," and is currently co-writing the opera libretto of "MILA, Great Sorcerer," about the life ofMilarepa. An inspired teacher of play writing and performance, van Itallie has transformed the old farm in Western Massachusetts where he lives into ShantigarFoundation for theater, meditation, and healing. Shantigar was given its name by Trungpa Rinpoche who did a year's retreat there while writing Shambhala teachings.
Parlan McGaw has been helping others to explore the creative interplay between acting and meditation since 2005, when he codirected the first of two weeklong retreats for actors with master teacher Michael Howard at Karme Choling Meditation Center in Vermont. He has since taught meditation programs for actors at Villanova University, the Michael Chekhov Acting Studio, and the Michael Howard Studios in New York, as well as at Shantigar with Jean-Claude van Itallie and Rae C Wright. A meditation instructor in the Shambhala tradition, Parlan has acted with the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Old Globe Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, and other theatres in New York and regionally, and he made his film debut in Todd Haynes's Poison. www.MeditationforActors.com
Most recently Rae C Wright was understudy for the Hannah Pitt line of characters in the Signature Theatre production of "Angels in America". She's the recipient of anOBIE Award for Sustained Excellence in the Theatre for her work with the NYStreetTheatre Caravan, was a 2010 Fulbright Teaching Fellow, and is a Professor in NYU's Film&TV Department where she teaches acting to film directors. She has both directed and performed at The Public Theatre and worked regionally at ATLouisville, Triad State, Portland Stage Co., etc. She recently played Bernie Madoff at PS122 in a Circus Amok extravaganza, and is featured in Madeline Olnek's short "Countertransference" which won honors at Sundance 2009. She's author of Vicki Weaver & I…a comedy about hate; The Moon in Vain, (a 'fifth act' to The Seagull), She's Just Away!-"a comedy about grieving"; and Animal Instincts! Tales of Flesh and Tales of Blood which is slated to be published in an anthology in May of 2012.
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Location
New York, NY 10012
The I.D. Project offers various weekly and monthly Buddhist and meditation classes, as well as workshops and retreats on a variety of topics as diverse as eco-activism, contemplative writing, and the relationship between Buddhist and contemporary therapeutic techniques.
Committed to nurturing a space wherein which social engagement – whether through the arts or activism – comprises a vital and integral component of mindful living, the I.D. Project hopes to continue to expand and broaden its services to the community at large with relevant and meaningful opportunities to be present in both the world and with oneself.
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