2018 Cape Cod Workshops

‘JOYFUL SINGING with FRANKIE ARMSTRONG’

July 27^TH, 2018 and

‘VOICING AND EMBODYING ARCHETYPES OF MYTHS AND LEGENDS’ *

WITH FRANKIE ARMSTRONG, DARIEN PRITCHARD & JANET RODGERS

JULY28^TH –AUGUST 4^TH, 2018

Where: East Sandwich Grange Hall, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

1. ‘Joyful Singing with Frankie Armstrong’ [Friday, July 27]

This will be a day of singing songs based on archetypal journeys as well as songs from many cultures. Frankie Armstrong is an internationally acclaimed folk singer who brings to her teaching pure inclusive joy. Cost: $175.00. ($150.00 for VASTA members)

2. ‘Voicing & Embodying Archetypes of Myths & Legends’ [Saturday,July 28-Saturday,Aug.-4]

This one week workshop for teachers, performers-actors, singers, dancers-, is dedicated to exploring archetypes from myths and legends of many diverse cultures ie. Trickster, Benevolent Leader, Devil, Mother, Child, Love, Huntress, Noble Warrior, Prophetess, Creator and Destroyer.

Participants will sing, dance, chant, drone, yodel and give voice to vocal ornamentation and made-up languages in preparation for journeys into the archetypes. In addition there will be a strong focus on aspects of body release and energy that relate directly to each archetypal journey. Building on all of these discoveries, we will then apply the work to dramatic or comedic texts, poetry, song or whatever one’s own creative outlet may be.

Each workshop day will be divided into two-three hour sessions with a short break for lunch and discussion. A communal meal will begin and end the week. Time will be allotted for discussions of teaching the work.

Cost: $975.00. ($950.00 for VASTA Members)

Housing will be in shared cottages close to Sandwich’s Town Neck Beach. Cost: between $400.00 and $600.00 for the week.

Meals: Optional on- site meals prepared for breakfast and lunches. Meals not included in the workshop fee.

Transportation: By air to Boston’s Logan Airport and then by Plymouth & Brockton bus to Sagamore Station where you will be met and transported to you accommodations.

Certification: Information about certification upon request.

For more information contact: JanetRodgers@Verizon.net

Workshop II

I am available to teach the Archetype Workshop in a three day format for theatre companies or at colleges and universities throughout the USA or abroad.

Guest Artist Residencies

University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, April 2015
Emerson College, Boston, MA, Sept. 2014
VASTA Conference, Central School of Speech and Drama, London, Aug. 2014
ARC Theatre, Chicago, IL (for production of Oedipus Rex), Jan. 2013
DePaul Univeristy, Chicago, IL, Jan. 2013
The Alluvium Group, Chicago for production of The Happiness Project,Sept. 2012

Testimonials

Vicki Shaghoian, Professor, Yale School of Drama

“This kind of improvisational work gives the actor permission to play—there are no wrongs or rights attached to the work. Technique is not part of the exercise.“… “ I was excited to return to the studio/classroom to encourage the actors to tap into, discover, and revel in their individual imaginations, finding room to play with skill and abandonment simultaneously. “ Vicki Shaghoian, Professor, Yale School of Drama

Patricia Tedford

“Observations upon teaching the Archetype work: “Students who appeared trapped inside of their perception of themselves, their identity limiting their range of choice, were able to break out of these self imposed cages and explore freely- finding energies, ways of being, and experiencing story beyond their current understanding of their worlds.”

“This work turns non-speakers- students who are either unable or too fearful to articulate their experience or share their perceptions, into speakers who do both: thereby making their discoveries more conscious to themselves, and at the same time giving them the satisfaction associated with having a voice: finally feeling after what seems like a lifetime of waiting for their turn-that they have something significant to contribute. The outcome: the watchers are turned into doers.”
Patricia Tedford

Daydrie Hague, U. of Alabama

“I have found the archetypal work an invaluable tool for exploring characterization with my students. It seamlessly incorporates impulse, imagination, breath, movement and sound within a narrative structure that allows us to improvise and connect to these archetypal essences that live within each of us. It takes us back to the ancient roots of ‘playing’ in the richest possible sense.” Daydrie Hague, U. of Alabama

Tiza Garland, Movement Specialist at the University of Florida

“The archetype work is a wonderful way to open the creative imagination and allow students to explore possibilities. It also builds confidence in making solid and distinct character choices when approaching a role. Archetype exploration is a great way for beginning and experienced students to add variety to their approach to character development.
Since exploring archetypes involves the whole body, voice and imagination, there are many times that workshop participants experience parts of themselves that they didn’t know existed.” Tiza Garland, Movement Specialist at the University of Florida

Marlene Johnson, University of Alabama

“What the archetypal exercises unearth is a validation that the human voice is capable of vocal colors/timbre beyond what the average individual ever fathoms or allows to experience/express”. Voice/Speech and Acting teacher Marlene Johnson, University of Alabama

Olisa Enrico-Johnson

“Groundbreaking, limitless, uplifting,
The guided journeys are expansive, sensory, fantastic
Makes the impossible –possible” Olisa Enrico-Johnson