Getting a strong start in playback theatre means taking enough time to immerse yourself in the rich atmosphere and dynamics of the playback experience. In this four-day intensive, you’ll learn all the basics, with lots of opportunities to practice. Playback forms will be taught—scenes, fluid sculptures, pairs, tableau stories, and more. Each student will have a chance to try the roles of conductor and musician as well as actor. And of course, everyone will tell and enact stories together, in the spirit of fun and fellowship. Designed for new and relatively new students.
Prerequisite: None
Cost: $850.00
Teacher:
Tim Van Ness
Tim Van Ness is founder and President of Van Ness & Company. For 15 years he has been using Playback and action methods for leadership development and transforming organizational culture in fortune 100 and 500 companies. A 25-year veteran of Playback Theatre he performed with Boulder Playback (Colorado), was founder and Artistic Director of Boston Playback and Valley Playback (Amherst), and was a founding partner of DramaWorks InterActive (Northampton). He has consulted to, trained and performed with Playback companies internationally. Tim has been a visiting professor at Antioch New England, Bowling Green University, NYU Masters program in Drama Therapy and continues to teach internationally. He has taught programs for the School of Playback Theatre – UK and Skandinavisk Playbackteater Studio in Sweden. Part of the first graduating class of the School of Playback Theatre, he served on the first Board of Directors for the International Playback Theatre Network (IPTN), and now serves on the Strategy Committee of the Centre For Playback Theatre. He grew up in New Paltz, NY and now lives in Western Massachusetts, USA.
