Workshop on Intercultural Performer Training

Dear friends & colleagues

It is our pleasure to organize a workshop with Phillip Zarrilli - reknown specialist in the field of intercultural performance training - in our studio in Kreuzberg: 

Please find the details below

Warm Greetings
Eva Isolde Balzer/meet MIMOSA


'Making the bodymind all "eyes": pre-performative training through Asian martial arts and yoga'
by Phillip Zarrilli

a 3 days intensive workshop followed by 6 weekly evening classes 

organised by meet MIMOSA/Eva Isolde Balzer


Workshop:
May 5th/Friday: 17-21h
May 6th/Saturday/9:30-12:30  & 14-17h 
May 7th/ Sunday  /9:00-13:00 & 14-16h

Evening Sessions: 
May 08th/Monday 18-21h
May 15th/Monday 18-21h
May 29th/Monday 18-21h
June 05th/Monday 18-21h
June 12th/Monday 18-21h


Fee : 448 Euros regular price/ 384 Euros reduced price 
the course includes workshop & evening sessions and can only be booked in its entirety

Place: Baerwaldstudio, Baerwaldstrasse 52, Berlin-Kreuzberg


Deadline of application: april 12 th
Places are limited! Places are given in order of receipt of the application. You will receive a confirmation of your reservation with a request of payment. The booking will be finalised after the transfer of the fee. 


For application & questions email to:


This beginner's intensive will introduce practitioners to key principles and metaphors informing Phillip Zarrilli's use of yoga, the yoga-based Indian martial art, kalarippayattu, and taiqiquan (Wu style) to train performers in a pre-performative process of bodymind awakening. Covered during the workshop will be: (1) basic breathing patterns and principles from kalarippayattu; (2) selected hatha-yoga postures (asana) and their breathing patterns; (3) the beginning of Wu style taiqiquan, focusing especially on coordination of breath with movement; and (4) basic introduction to kalarippayattu including selected poses, steps, and beginning combinations through one preliminary sequence combining breath with each moment. In application sessions, the beginner's intensive will introduce practitioners to structured improvisations through which the principles of the training are applied toward performance. Places are limited! After the initial 3 day intensive, a weekly evening class will allow participants to deepen their embodied relationship to this approach to performer training. www.phillipzarrilli.com
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Phillip Zarrilli is internationally known for training actors in psychophysical process through Asian martial/meditation arts, and as a director/performer.  During his career he has created, directed, or performed in over 18 ‘intercultural’ productions. Most recently, he directed the world premiere of Kaite O’Reilly’s Cosy (Wales Millennium Centre, 2016). Later in 2016 he will be remounting the Mandarin production of Kaite O’Reilly’s The 9 Fridas with Mobius Strip Theatre (Taipei) in association with Hong Kong Rep for performances at the HK Rep Black Box Festival in October. In 2017 he will be directing several Beckett plays at the National Theatre, Costa Rica.

He is the first Westerner to seriously study kalarippayattu. He began his training in 1976 under the guidance of Gurukkal Govindankutty Nayar of the CVN Kalari, Thiruvananthapuram. Between 1976 and 1993 he lived in Kerala for a total of seven years. In 1988 he was gifted the traditional pitham (stool) representing mastery by Gurukkal Govindankutty Nayar. 

In addition to his professional artistic work, Zarrilli maintains a relationship with the Drama Department at Exeter University (UK) where he taught between 2000-2010. His numerous books include (editor) Acting (Re)Considered (2nd ed 2002), When the Body Becomes All Eyes (1998), Kathakali Dance-Drama: Where Gods and Demons Comes to Play (2000), and (editor) Martial Arts in Actor Training (1993).Psychophysical Acting: an intercultural approach after Stanislavski Zarrilli's long-awaited book on the process of training actors through a psychophysical approach based on Asian martial arts and yoga was published in 2009 by Routledge Press (London). The book includes a DVD-ROM by Peter Hulton. It was awarded the ATHE 2010 Outstanding Book of the Year Award at the ATHE convention in Los Angeles.