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September 11/12 2 day workshop Basel Switzerland
September 13 to 22 (inclusive)
10 day Intensive Aarau, Switzerland (20 minutes by train from Zurich)
Participants will be invited to perform with Ozfrank members as Chorus in Jacqui Carroll's
production of Oedipus Rex September 24 & 25, in Aarau.
(refer repertoire information, Oedipus Rex, on this website)
For details regarding the Swiss Workshops contact Tracy Shoemaker
UK Weekend workshop October 2/3
for details regarding the UK workshop contact Fran Barbe
For details concerning Ozfrank's Brisbane Intensives contact Jacqui Carroll
or phone (07) 3391 0396
Location: West End, Brisbane.
Friday session: 6:00pm - 8:30pm.
Training only.
Saturday and Sunday sessions: 5:30pm - 9:30pm.
Two and a half hours of training, a short 'food' break, followed by a trawl through various videos of productions by, among others, Japanese theatre master Tadashi Suzuki, visual artist/Polish theatre director Tadeusz Kantor, butoh artists, Hijikata etc., Robert Wilson, Ozfrank repertoire, etc interspersed with conversation & discussion!
Please Note: Due to Ozfrank's local and international performance commitments new training arrangements are now in place. The 'old system' of regular Monday and Wednesday training sessions, previously made available to all, is no longer in place. Ozfrank is now offering regular monthly intensives for all current trainees, students of theatre and dance, theatre professionals wanting to gain further skills and all others interested in East/West fusion theatre practice.
N.B. Any of you who are interested in being considered for participation in Ozfrank productions in the future should plan to attend every monthly intensive to gain the necessary physical and vocal skills. After you have gained the requisite skills you will be invited to participate in regular company training and rehearsals and to play a part in future productions.
Looking forward to seeing you at the next three day intensive......
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July 3 Day Intensive:
Friday July 2, Saturday 3 and Sunday 4
July 3 Day Full $130 / student/concession $100
Ozfrank regulars Full $100 Student/concession $80
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Location: West End, Brisbane.
Friday session: 6:00pm - 8:30pm.
Training only.
Saturday and Sunday sessions: 5:30pm - 9:30pm.
Two and a half hours of training, a short 'food' break, followed by a trawl through various videos of productions by, among others, Japanese theatre master Tadashi Suzuki, visual artist/Polish theatre director Tadeusz Kantor, butoh artists, Hijikata etc., Robert Wilson, Ozfrank repertoire, etc interspersed with conversation & discussion!
Please Note: Due to Ozfrank's local and international performance commitments in 2009 new training arrangements are now in place. The 'old system' of regular Monday and Wednesday training sessions, previously made available to all, is no longer in place. Ozfrank is now offering regular monthly intensives for all current trainees, students of theatre and dance, theatre professionals wanting to gain further skills and all others interested in East/West fusion theatre practice.
N.B. Any of you who are interested in being considered for participation in Ozfrank productions in the future should plan to attend every monthly intensive to gain the necessary physical and vocal skills. After you have gained the requisite skills you will be invited to participate in regular company training and rehearsals and to play a part in future productions.
Looking forward to seeing you at the next three day intensive......
Want to find your limits?
Get out of your head and into your body?
Create a compelling stage presence?
The Frank/Suzuki style has the power to transform your life…
Ozfrank's training system is for those who wish to pursue an intense commitment to the exploration of excellence within a fully realised personal performance paradigm....don't be afraid...be excited, be bold, be challenged...life is too short to accept the ordinary and mundane as goals, reach beyond the local, the suburbs of your mind!
Conducted by world renowned teachers of the Frank/Suzuki Performance Aesthetics, Brisbane’s Frank Theatre co-directors John Nobbs and Jacqui Carroll.
Each year John and Jacqui travel to Japan to train with Master Teacher/creator Tadashi Suzuki and have secured International Trainer status. This workshop is an opportunity to train with two of the world’s best Suzuki teachers in Frank Theatre’s unique system, Frank/Suzuki Performance Aesthetics which fully incorporates the Suzuki Actor Training Method.
Do more than you thought you were capable of, become more of who you really are, reveal your soul.
Participants need to be fit and can expect the following outcomes:
To connect with their voice
To develop the ability to live entirely in the moment
To experience the joy of ‘struggle’ as they grapple with multiple tasks and uncomfortable but extremely rewarding situations
To work from their core or centre and experience feelings of greater personal power both on stage and in life
To develop greater skill with props and how to incorporate them into performance
To learn the skills that will enable them to engage more fully with an audience
Learn what it means to pursue the path of the artist by immersing yourself in the deeply personal process of exploration unequalled in its intensity and high expectations.
What previous participants have said:
“I enjoyed the course immensely and have come out of it feeling somehow stronger, more energised and focussed and more confident”
Wayne B, January 2006
“…thank you for such an excellent experience. I am much more aware of my posture and centre of gravity which is helping me move freely and strongly”
Shingo Usami, January 2006
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Cost:
(Individual session rates are available ).
Bookings:
Pre-pay via credit card with Paypal/cheque/money order or cash on commencement.
Contact OzFrank Theatre 07 3391 0396 or email OzFrank Theatre for more details.
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Second Tuesday of every month - 6:45pm for 7pm start finishing 9:00pm. |
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Forums are now held on the second Tuesday of every month, drawing people together to discuss the 'philosophy of theatre' in a relaxed and informal setting. Anybody with an interest in or knowledge of theatre is very welcome to join us.
September Forum - SPECIAL DATE CHANGE now Thursday September 10th
We are pleased to present a Powerpoint presentation : Tadashi Suzuki: In his own words. Featuring new translations of previously untranslated material which provides a unique view of Suzuki's 'take' on the philosophy supporting the creation of his theatre works.
Hope to see you there!
(new venue details below)
June Forum - Tuesday June 9th
Following on from the May showing ofthe DVD of Hijikata we continue the Butoh theme with a comprehensive Butoh documentary Dance of Darkness.
May Forum - Tuesday May 12th We are very pleased to have acquired the only available DVD, Summer Storm, featuring the work of Hijikata, the founder of Butoh, the Japanese dance form that took the world by storm in the early 60s.
April Forum - Tuesday April 7th we will be continuing the viewing and discussion of the Suzuki Company of Toga's 2003 performance of Tadashi Suzuki's highly original take on Shakespeare's King Lear, The Tale of Lear.
March Forum - Tuesday March 3rd we continued viewing and had a very stimulating discussion on the Suzuki Company of Toga's 2003 performance of Tadashi Suzuki's highly original take on Shakespeare's King Lear, The Tale of Lear.
February Forum - Tuesday February 3rd screened One Step in a Journey, the 1992 SBS documentary of the making of Tadashi Suzuki's 'The Chronicle of Macbeth' with Australian actors and American actress Ellen Lauren as Lady Macbeth.
December Forum - Tuesday December 2nd 2008 screened an early German documentary, An Attempt to Portray Grotowski, dealing with the early years and work of Polish director Jerzy Grotowski up to 1967 . The documentary was translated from the German by Tracy Shoemaker.
November Forum - Tuesday November 4th 2008 screened a video of The Bacchae directed by Tadashi Suzuki. This early work (late 1970s) shows world-renowned actress, Shiraishi Kayoko, in the dual roles of Pentheus and Agave as well as the famous Noh actor, Hideo Kanze, in the role of Dionysus.
For those interested in the development of Suzuki's performance aesthetic and philosophy of theatre practice this is a 'must-see' video.
October Forum - Tuesday October 7th 2008 October Forum the work of Japanese Butoh artist Yumiko Yoshioka was shown. The video captured Yumiko's performance, Before the Dawn, at the 2005 Daiwa International Butoh Festival in London which was directed by Ozfrank Associate, Fran Barbe.
Yoshioka says energies and experiences stored in the body and are cosmic and universal. This inner reservoir, of which we are mostly unaware, contains not only rational and emotional knowledge but also, in a changed form, elements and forces from nature. Yumiko Yoshioka takes all this to be an archaic fund of the human, open to reactivation, so classical butoh motifs serve as a vehicle for the transformation of energy: "There is a feedback between the imagination and the body. By enabling dancers/performers to develop antennae and by supplying them with images, I try to let them channel impressions and information. They may then achieve a state in which they can transcend their egos and change themselves."
June Forum - Tuesday May 3rd 2008 The June Forum continued the May Forum’s investigation of the performance methods of Tadashi Suzuki. Viewing the DVD of the American cast of Suzuki’s Tale of Lear in performance at the 1989 Toga Festival. We viewed the DVD stopping and starting to allow for in depth discussion about the delivery and performances of this excellent American cast!
John Nobbs, who has been guest artist with Suzuki’s SCOT company (1991-1999) and therefore worked intensively and directly with Suzuki and Jacqui Carroll who has observed Suzuki at work through about 1,000 hours of rehearsal, will conduct the viewing inviting comment and questions. Anyone with a curiosity regarding Suzuki’s processes would find this a worthwhile session to attend.
May Forum - Tuesday May 6th 2008 This Forum investigated the performance methods of Tadashi Suzuki…this was done by viewing the DVD of the American cast of Suzuki’s Tale of Lear in performance at the 1998 Toga Festival. We went carefully through it stopping and starting allowing for in depth discussion about the delivery and performances of this excellent American cast.
April Forum - Tuesday April 8th 2008 Forum participants will be continuing their viewing, started in the March Forum, of the second half of the comprehensive video documentary on the work of Polish director and visual artist Tadeusz Kantor. This documentary video, being shown again by popular request, presents excerpts from The Dead Class and Wielopole, Wielopole as well as interviews and footage of his rehearsal and creative processes, etc.
March Forum - Tuesday March 4th 2008 The March 2008 Forum featured the work of Polish director and visual artist Tadeusz Kantor. This documentary video, was shown again by popular request, presented excerpts from The Dead Class and Wiepole, Wiepole as well as interviews and footage of his rehearsal and creative processes, etc.
February Forum - Tuesday February 5th 2008 For the first Forum of 2008 Suzuki’s Dionysus featuring American actress Ellen Lauren as Agave was shown. Suzuki’s performance expectations are based on his philosophical concerns that the actor engage in an act of ‘self encounter’ in both rehearsals and performance. All of Suzuki’s actors strive to meet his formidable demands and Dionysus is one of the great productions within Suzuki’s continuing explorations of the Greek tragedies.
Outcomes: The artistic stimulus activated by the ABC Radio tape of Antonin Artaud’s To Have Done with the Judgement of God , (Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu), submitted by one of our Forum regulars, Sharmila Nezovic, and played in the October 07 Forum has already inspired a performance outcome. Ozfrank director, Jacqui Carroll, is creating a new movement/text work of the same name using Helen Weaver’s English translation of the original French script. This exciting and highly charged new work is being created for 6 men and will be shown later in 08.
December Forum 07 - Tuesday December 4th. At the final Forum for 2007 we showed Suzuki’s Trojan Women featuring the Suzuki Company of Toga’s greatest actress, Shiraishi in a stellar performance.
November Forum 07 - Tuesday November 6th. We featured a video recording of an all-American cast performing in Tadashi Suzuki’s The Tale of Lear at the 1988 Toga International Arts Festival featuring Tom Hewitt as Lear. This unique record comes from a large collection of Suzuki’s productions which we will be showing within our Forums. These are exclusive to Ozfrank and come direct to us from the archives of Tsutamori Kosuke, founder actor of Suzuki’s company.
As well, Ozfrank company member, Narda Shanley, delivered the paper she presented at the Melbourne University sponsored ASDA Conference earlier this year. The conference was dealing with the issue of “extreme states” in performance. Narda’s paper dealt with the Frank/Suzuki Performance Aesthetics Training and its stimulus to alert the actor’s body and make it sweat for its enlightenment. The paper is titled Physical Discomfort.
October Forum 07- Tuesday October 2nd. We presented a riveting piece of art-radio. "To Have Done with the Judgement of God" by Antonin Artaud recorded by Radio France 1947. This tape is for English audiences, written/produced by Virginia Madison with (extraordinary) actor, Jenny Balotic performing a translation of the text, and presented by Robyn Revlidge for The Listening Room, ABC Classic FM Radio, Sydney, in conjunction with the international "100 Years of Cruelty" broadcast 16/9/1996.
June Forum 07- Tuesday June 5th - participants viewed Suzuki’s The Tale of Lear with performances alternating between the Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT) and an all-American cast and discussed Suzuki’s (fascinating and inspiring) comments to the Playbox Theatre actors during rehearsals for The Chronicle of Macbeth in Melbourne, 1992.
May Forum 07- Tuesday may 1st - participants enjoyed a viewing of the documentary of the making of The Chronicle of Macbeth at the Playbox Theatre Melbourne, 1992, when Tadashi Suzuki staged his production with an all-Australian cast which included John Nobbs (Frank Theatre co-director). As well, excerpts from Suzuki’s acclaimed production of Dionysus were shown.
April Forum 07– Tuesday April 3 – explored Grotowski’s work and philosophy of theatre practice – we welcomed special guest, Ludmila Doneman, who spoke of her experiences as a participant in Grotowski Training Workshops in Sydney in the early 70s.
March Forum 07- Tuesday March 6 - we viewed a video of the training of Jerzy Grotowski's Polish Theatre Laboratory demonstrated by Ryszard Cieslak and students of Eugenio Barba's Odin Theater followed by a discussion.
Venue:
The Forums have relocated to Protestant Hall, 18 Merton Rd, Woolloongabba. (Merton Rd is off Stanley St near the Freeway Overpass & close to the Annerley Rd & Mater Hospital corner. The road is situated between a Costume Hire shop & a Golf Shop on Stanley St)
……we’ll keep an eye out for you!
Please note: Ozfrank's Forums require a small donation to help cover the cost of the Hall hire.
Free tea and coffee will be available!
Time: 6:45pm for 7pm start finishing 9:00pm.
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25th and 26th November at the Judith Wright Centre |
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Created by Jacqui Carroll and performed by John Nobbs, Noel Sheridan, Glenn Taylor, Kieren Law & Donovan Holbrook
Text by Antonin Artaud
Ausdance Queensland in association with the Judith Wright Centre and
Ozfrank present
Preview of Part 1
Tuesday November 25th & Wednesday November 26th at 6pm
Bell Tower ll Series 2008
Tickets are free though seating is limited...bookings essential
Judith Wright Centre
Phone 3872 9000 between12 noon- 4pm Monday to Friday
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Feb 2007 - Brisbane |
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Frank Theatre co-directors John Nobbs and Jacqui Carroll, along with the members of Frank Theatre and company associates were delighted to host distinguished international theatre director Tadashi Suzuki’s first visit to Brisbane, Australia.
We also welcomed, with Mr Suzuki, members of his group which include Ikuko Saito, Secretary General of the Japan Performing Arts Foundation, (JPAF) Yoko Narushima and Akiko Yamasaki, staff members of JPAF, plus three emergent Japanese theatre directors, Yudai Kamisato, Madoka Okada and Akifumi Watanabe, who, under the auspices of Suzuki’s Japan Performing Arts Foundation, traveled to Brisbane to study the work and creative process of Frank Theatre.
Mr Suzuki arrived in Brisbane Sunday February 4 and departed Wednesday February 7. During his visit he observed a Frank/Suzuki Performance Aesthetics demonstration by company members and selected associates, watched a rehearsal of Jacqui’s new work-in-progress Voodoo Macbeth and was special guest at a performance of Hamlet Stooged! at the Roundhouse Theatre, La Boite. As well, he enjoyed a day sailing on a 10 metre catamaran on the Bay and QPAC hosted a barbeque on the Rooftop Terrace overlooking the city which, among other guests, the Queensland Japanese Consul General, Hajime Nishiyama and Consul Tadahiro Saegusa attended.
The young directors participated in company training, showed some examples of their own theatre styles in short live performances as well as watching Hamlet Stooged! and some excerpts from the Frank repertoire, Doll Seventeen, Rashomon and Salome in a performance showing at the Roundhouse.
Plans are afoot for Frank Theatre directors and members to visit Suzuki’s home base, Toga, Japan, in 2007, to discuss future collaborations. |
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Hamlet Stooged! premiered in London in 2006, was shown to Mr Suzuki and his group in an ‘exhibition’ showing at the Roundhouse Theatre.
A rehearsal of Jacqui Carroll’s latest work was also shown to Mr Suzuki. This is a new, very extreme, wicked, voodoo version of Macbeth, Voodoo Macbeth (………the black dog runs at night……..)
Following the successful Creative Development showing at QPAC, we have received permission from Nick’s management which will allow us to proceed with the further development of our Gothic musical tale. Up Jumped the Devil, based on the songs of Nick Cave.
Current plans include DOCH Orchestra joining singer Damian Rebgetz, writer Martin Buzacott, producer/scenarist Cristian Pilditch and director Jacqui Carroll with Frank Theatre performers in a one-act work with a wicked scenario featuring Carny folk, magic disappearing boxes, the lover, Lucy, black angels, among others……….
International touring in ‘07 include Chicago, USA; Aarau and Lenzburg, Switzerland; London, UK; Toga, Japan and Ulan Baataar, Mongolia.
Frank/Suzuki Performance Aesthetics will be taught in all centres plus performances of The Tale of Macbeth: Crown of Blood in two bi-lingual performance situations in Switzerland (German/English) and Mongolia (Mongolian/English). Hamlet Stooged! will be shown in Chicago.
Brisbane’s international theatre ensemble directed by Jacqui Carroll and John Nobbs.
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Ensemble members;
Lisa O’Neill, Caroline Dunphy, Leah Shelton, Michael Coughlan, Michael Scott, Ira Seidenstein, Kristen Duffus, Jane Barber, Emma Pursey
Performance trainees/associates: Helen Smith, Narda Shanley, Stephen Bradley, James Anderson, Tamara Savic, Donovan Holbrook, Kathleen Doyle, Alicia Jones; Tracey Kay. |
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Late september 2010, Probebühne Theater Marie Obere Dorfstrasse 5 CH 5034 Suhr |
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Every day there will be a three-hour physical and vocal training session.
No previous experience in performing required.
All instructions will be delivered in English by Australian directors John Nobbs and Jacqui Carroll. German translation available.
Regular sessions will all start at 6.30 p.m.
On the 22nd July workshop participants will perform in Jacqui Carrolls version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth (1-hour piece) which will be open to the public.
Feel free to bring your friends along to our special Forums!
Friday 17th, Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th July. On the above three dates sessions will commence at 16:30 p.m. and they will include viewing of selected works by Tadashi Suzuki and Ozfrank followed by discussions.
Workshop cost (11days workshop including forums): CHFr. 400 full, Chfr. 250 student/concession.
Individual day rates (includes forums): CHFr. 40 full, ChFr. 25 student/concession.
Forum (DVD and discussion): CHFr. 10 full, CHFr. 7 student/concession.
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