Master Classes & Workshops

Placemaking: A Workshop on ANU's Practice, Theatre-making & Collaboration

Led by the co-artistic directors of ANU Productions

Details

$10 general / $8 members 120 mins
Date(s)

Wed, Feb 27, 2019

7:00pm

Contact

Box Office

888-616-0274
boxoffice@irishartscenter.org

Phone hours:
10am-6pm, Monday-Friday

In person:
Opens 60 minutes before the performance on show days


Location

244 Rehearsal Studios
244 West 54th Street New York, NY 10019
(Between Broadway and 8th Ave)
on the 11th floor in the Kirov Recital Hall

Overview

Theatre-makers, performers, and directors are invited to join a fearless and vibrant master class on “placemaking” led by Co-Artistic Directors of ANU Productions, theatre-maker Louise Lowe and visual artist Owen Boss. The focus of the workshop will be on using collaboration to uncover new ways of engaging with the city and its stories.

The central question Anu Productions ask of their audiences is "How do you choose to engage?" They ask audiences to witness, feel, comply or act. By creating conditions by which audience and performer collaboratively engage in a shared kinesthetic state, they ultimately aim to produce sensory rich experiences where years of history can fold, clash, interact, contradict and tell its own story in its own way.  

Much of their work is derived from physical space and site, usually working within geographic or historical contexts. They place these findings in non-traditional sites and use immersive engagement to create shared intimacies between audience and place and audience and performer.

About ANU 
Cutting across form and context, ANU are a multidisciplinary company, cross-pollinating theatre, visual art, and dance. We are building a reputation for creating transformative experiences in unconventional sites. Established in April 2009, ANU have created 28 multi award winning seminal works, public art commissions, gallery installations and museum interpretations. Their most recent productions include The Lost O'Casey (co production with the Abbey Theatre, nominated for 5 Irish Times Theatre Awards) and These Rooms (co-production with the CoisCéim Dance Theatre, presented at London International Festival of Theatre & TATE Liverpool).

Our Supporters

Irish Arts Center programs are supported, in part, by government, foundation, and corporate partners including Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office and the New York City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Howard Gilman Foundation; Tourism Ireland; the Jerome L. Greene Foundation; the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation; the Charina Endowment Fund; the Ireland Funds; the Shubert Foundation, Inc.; the Arnhold Foundation; the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; the Irish Institute of New York; the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York; Northern Ireland Bureau; Invest NI; CIE Tours International; the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Consulate of Ireland in New York; and thousands of generous donors like you.

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