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WAXworks at Triskelion Arts
In September 2006, Triskelion officially became the new performance venue for WAXworks. WAXworks is an inclusive performance showcase that offers new and experienced artists the opportunity to present their work on a professional stage with substantial and versatile lighting, sound and technical systems. Any kind of stage work is welcome - we invite dance, theater, music, video, performance art, poetry, comedy, juggling, singing, puppetry, acrobatics, monologues or anything else that can be performed on a stage. There is no audition process and few technical limitations.
WAXworks is designed to help artists advance their creative process by viewing their work through the objective eyes of a live, enthusiastic audience: guided by the WAX staff, audience members are invited to share their constructive criticisms, reactions and ideas with the artists in an anonymous written format. An involved audience is a supportive audience.For more information or if you have questions about the application and booking process, contact WAXworks Production Director Alexandra Burley via voicemail at: 718.599.7997 or waxworks@wax205.com
WAXworks shows scheduled at 7pm: March 28, April 25, May 9, June 27
Tickets: $10
Reservations: 718.599.7997

Triskelion Arts presents
Leanne Schmidt and Company
Today, The Sky is Falling
April 9-11, 2010. 8pm
Today, The Sky is Falling, Leanne Schmidt and Company’s fourth evening-length work, offers a humorous, peculiar and unusual demonstration of bravery as three individual’s put themselves on the line and illustrate what makes their “sky fall”. Poking fun at life’s mini-dramas, this work is composed through a collection of personal tragedies, combing physicality and comedy improvisation techniques. The result is a journey that is rich in metaphor, evokes empathy and is supremely honest. Schmidt guarantees that the audience will find candid similarities between themselves and the performers, as the piece reflects what is innately human about us all, diving into the depths of vulnerability with a cast of characters that are equal parts glee and tragedy.

Tickets: $15 general, $12 students and seniors.
reservations: info@triskelionarts.org or 718-599-3577

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Triskelion Arts presents
Cirque This’
Viva la Evolution!
April 15-April 18 and April 22- April 24, 2010. 8pm
Cirque This’ new show will give audiences a unique, if not warped, look at the past, present, and future of the strange and ever-changing species we are and those that we encounter through clowning, puppetry, manipulation and various forms of tomfoolery.

Tickets: $12 general
Reservations: info@triskelionarts.org or 718-599-3577

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Triskelion Arts presents
Nu Dance Theater
and
Ms. Skovby
June 3-5, 2010. 8pm
reservations: info@triskelionarts.org or 718-599-3577

Nu Dance Theater explores theatrical and visual ideas using the body as a tool to unveil human emotion. Much like a dream, reality and imagination blend generating powerful moving images to create a poetic unity between the experience of life and its performance.

Tickets: $15 general, $12 students and seniors
Reservations at info@triskelionarts.org

For more info visit www.Nudancetheater.com

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Workshops with Mick Barnfather
Here's a little more about the man and the work ahead.
MICK BARNFATHER:
Mick has worked in theatre as an actor, director and teacher for over 25 years. As an actor and director he has worked extensively with many internationally acclaimed theatre companys including Theatre de Complicite, Peepolykus, Told by and Idiot and Hoipolloi. He is an acclaimed international theatre teacher and has given courses all over the world including: Julliard, BADA (British American Drama Academy),RADA (Royal Academy of Drama), The London School of Musical Theatre, the London Circus Space, The Central School of Speach and Drama and Ecole Philippe Gaulier. He also teaches for Theatre de Complicite, and runs his own sought after courses in London on Clown, Comedy, Mask, Ensemble and Buffon. For in depth details on Mick and his work, visit www.mickbarnfather.com

THE WORK:
CLOWN & COMEDY
This workshop will be very much looking to find what is uniquely funny about each person and how they can make that accessible to an audience. When people have fun and play instinctively it is then that they start to play the fool, tell stories, joke and discover their creativity. It will concentrate mainly on the clown (non big shoes/squirty flowers kind) and the pleasure to be ridiculous in the space. The clown moves from one flop to the next always happy and optimistic to be playing before an audience. There are many confusions and disasters in a clown show but there are never any doubts. The clown is joyful, playful, mischievous and full of fantasy.

COMEDIC CHARACTER
Have you been storing away little ideas for possible comedic characters to develop, but never had the chance to get on your feet with them? Or have you been playing your original characters for quite some time and they need the dust shaken off them? Perhaps you have no idea what "character" means? If any of these questions awaken a little light in you, you'll probably need to come see how Mick is able to draw completely unique, funny, viable, human characters out of just about anyone. In this workshop, Mic encourages the participants to use their fun and playfulness as a creative catalyst, then to be bigger than maybe they thought possible so as to make themselves accessible to an audience. Playing a character is not hiding behind and being lost in the characterization but finding the freedom to play someone else. What's your character?

THE NITTY GRITTY:
CLOWN is 5 full days split over two weekends:
Sat/Sun March 13th & 14th
Fri/Sat/Sun March 19th, 20th, 21st
10-4:30pm
$350 regular price. $325 if booked before February 17th.

CHARACTER is 3 nights:
Tues/Wed/Thurs March 16th, 17th & 18th
7-10pm
$150 regular price. $125 if booked before February 17th.

Email Ishah for info on how to reserve your spot!

All classes at Triskelion Arts in Studio Z
Feel free to forward this around to anyone you might know who needs to know about this important announcement of import.

Poi with Claire de Luxe.
Poi was an ancient Maori art used for dance, play, agility, and self-defense training. Today, poi has developed into a dynamic and complex art form that is often combined with fire. Here, poi is taught with an eye for movement as opposed to simply a series of static tricks to be mastered. Class includes warm-up and cool-down as well as plenty of opportunity for questions, improvisation, and experimentation. We will spin and move to a variety of music to encourage different styles and flow. We introduce and review basic fire safety methods, and the last class always includes the opportunity to light up (no fire will take place at Triskelion studios).

Winter poi sessions are starting the first week of 2010! Please register ASAP to reserve your spot.
Email ddzzee@gmail.com

All sessions are 10 weeks, with the last class being a fire performance class.

Poi 3 and Poi 4: Tuesdays 8:00-9:30
Poi 2: Wednesdays 6:30-8:00

Tuesdays January 6 - March 2. Fire class date TBD.
Wednesdays January 7 - March 3. Fire class date TBD.
At Triskelion Arts, Studio B

Please try to attend all of your classes, as poi is a vocabulary based on building blocks. If you MUST miss a class, you can make it up (up to two only) during this session only by attending another level class.

Poi 2
Students are expected to have a basic knowledge of simple poi moves. We continue adding to our poi vocabulary, building transitions, and facilitating experimentation.

Poi 3
Students should be comfortable with basic poi vocabulary. We will be building on the basics to develop a comfort and freedom with flow, layering moves on top of one another to begin to create true flow with the poi. Stalls, turns, and transitions will be essential. We will also begin exploring new categories of moves to keep your technique exciting.

Poi 4
A lot of focus will be spent this session on choreography, sequencing moves, transitions, and experimenting with movement. We will do drills to open up new patterns within old moves and work on opening up the possibilities of poi play within the context of the framework you already know.

**Note: Poi 3 and Poi 4 will meet in the same time period. Classes will be on opposite sides of the room and separate instruction will be given to each side, with personal attention given in equal measure.

Enrollment:
Cost is $180 for the 10-week session. A payment of $90 via Google Checkout will confirm your enrollment (I will send you an invoice when you register). The remaining balance can be paid on the first day of class.

"I always found Claire's poi classes really inspiring because I don't consider spinning poi easy at all and I'm not always good at taking on challenges. But there was never any sort of pressure or judgment in her classes regardless of my attitude on any given day. And she is very honest and genuine in her own exploration and learning process as it goes on side by side with her students. I loved it, and I look forward to taking more poi clases in 2010!"

-Cristina Jesurun