"Impulse and action are concurrent: the body vanishes, burns, and the spectator sees only a series of visible impulses. Ours then is a via negativa - not a collection of skills but an eradication of blocks."
- Jerzy Grotowski

What happens when we let our physical impulses run free, when we set the analytical mind on the back burner and move and create spontaneously? As children we play with imagery easily and without inhibitions. As we grow older, we tend to become more restrained and self-conscious. However, our bodies are still packed full of stories, emotions, memories, ideas; the fabric of our identities. Through physical exercises and forms we can access that dormant energy and creative materials that lie within and let them out to play.
This class will explore various physical theater techniques to generate stories and ideas as the basis for performance or as tools for creative process. Methods will include Viewpoints, Grotowski’s plastiques and corporals, improvisation, clowning, Linklater vocal techniques and Monica's own brand of developing solo material. Through energetic physical exercises students will play with character, movement, sound and imagination, and rely on the genius of impulse to set free new discoveries.
Participants will develop original material and explore ensemble work.  3 hours long

About the Facilitator - Monica Hunken is a New York-based performer who creates docu-adventure theatre including; Reading the Water, Blondie of Arabia, The Wild Finish, Hunker Down,  Outside the World and Mt Rushmore.  In NY, she has been produced at Culture Project, Exponential Festival,  The Brick, The Living Theatre, Polish Cultural Institute and HERE Arts Center.  Abroad, she has been produced in Australia’s Horse’s Mouth Festival, the Netherland’s DeParade Festival, Norway’s PIT festival, the Glastonbury Festival in England, among many others.    She has taught in Greece, England, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Jordan, Australia, Mexico, The Netherlands and all across the states.  She is a co-founder of Al Límite Collective.

Date - 8th September 

Time - 4pm - pm

Venue - Bangalore Creative Circus, Yeshwantpur (Near Orion Mall/ISKCON)