Joanne Akalaitis

Joanne Akalaitis Workshop:

The Body in Space

The most thrilling event in theater is the moment when the performance begins, a moment of pure potential. This workshop will consist of a series of movement, vocal and acting exercises that create a vocabulary for use in any play of any period. We will work on composition in slow motion and real time. We will work on Roberto Calasso’s The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, an examination of Greek myths.

Joanne Akalaitis Bio

Theatre director and writer JoAnne Akalaitis has won five Obie Awards for direction (and sustained achievement) and founded the critically acclaimed Mabou Mines in New York. She is former artistic director of the New York Shakespeare Festival and was artist in residence at the Court Theatre. She was the Andrew Mellon Co-chair of the Directing Program at Juilliard School and is currently the Wallace Benjamin Flint and L. May Hawver Flint Professor of Theater at Bard College.