Workshops I: VOICING AND EMBODYING ARCHETYPES OF MYTHS & LEGENDS

The next one week workshop will be held on Cape Cod, August 1-8, 2018. Frankie Armstrong, Darien Pritchard and Janet Rodgers will be workshop leaders along with other certified teachers. If you are interested, please contact Janet.

Workshop II

Richmond Archetype Workshops for Visual Artists, Writers, Dancers, Theatre Artists

Description
This workshop provides a creative environment where artists of all disciplines come together for a day of guided images based on the Archetype Journeys. They then go away for 2-3 weeks and create their own work, based on their experience in the workshop. Finally, workshop participants come back together to share their work.

Testimonial: “It was energizing, enlightening, invigorating and joyful. The fear block was removed that was stifling my creativity.”
See “Testimonials” page for other comments.

For information about the next workshop, contact Janet.

Workshop III

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