This is our last "Body & Song" workshop for the spring and summer season. Please
let me
know if you'd like to join us!

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Urban Research Theater presents:

- BODY & SONG WORKSHOP -

This workshop is a rare opportunity to explore the organic intersection of song,
movement
and action.

Each session begins with the discovery of active silence, as the group follows
its leader
through elementary movement explorations in search of the playful, the rigorous,
the
dynamic, and the subtle. We then move into singing, using fragments of
traditional and
original vibratory songs to unlock the freedom and vitality of the
body-and-song, the
body-in-song, the body-of-song...

This workshop touches on all aspects of performance and is designed to serve the
inner
and outer lives of dancers, actors, singers, martial artists, yoga
practitioners, and anyone
with an interest in embodied practice. Every participant receives personal
attention and
guidance, and is invited to encounter the present moment in a safe and open
space.
Beginners and advanced participants are welcome.

LAST WORKSHOP OF THE SEASON:

- Saturday, May 24, 2008
- 2:00pm to 5:00pm
- Baryshnikov Arts Center
- Fee: $20 (paid in advance)

DETAILS AND PARTICIPANT TESTIMONY:
http://www.UrbanResearchTheater.com/

QUESTIONS AND REGISTRATION:
ben@...

BEN SPATZ has has over ten years of experience as a director, performer, and
leader of
theatrical research. He lived in Poland from 2003-2005, first as an ensemble
performer
with the Gardzienice Theater Company and then as a Fulbright Fellow at the
Grotowski
Institute. Ben has trained with Song of the Goat Theater, Rena Mirecka, Odin
Teatret, and
the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards. In addition to leading
the
practice-based performance research of Urban Research Theater, Ben is a doctoral
student
in theater at the City University of New York.

MICHELE FARBMAN is a sixteen-year practitioner of chanting, meditation, and
other forms
of internal yoga. She has lived and worked in New York City for sixteen years as
a writer,
editor and teacher, and has been a full-time member of Urban Research Theater
for one
year.