Action Theater™, a body-based improvisation training, expands individual expressive range, builds ensemble perception, and offers performers a clear, structured form in which to play with abandon. The training elevates vocal, verbal, and physical performance artistry, hones awareness and increases personal vocabulary. The work dives into the world of embodied presence and explores the agility of the imagination through exercises that are simple, playful, and challenging. The focus is on the inescapable musicality of the moment-to-moment experience and the passionate movement, voice and language that originates from the body. Devised by Ruth Zaporah, the form keeps evolving through the contribution of herself and the certified teachers.
Action Theater gets at the core of who you are as a performer. It addresses your relationship to the body/mind instrument that you live in. It trains you to separate the psychological from consciousness and in doing so vastly increases your ability to create expression. The practice encourages self-examination, to question the creation of thoughts and judgments; “who” is the mind that produce that thought? And is it contributing to the on-going-ness of the improvisation? What you learn in Action Theater is how to express yourself, but not the tight, little self dictated by the ego. Instead you reach into the universal, the vast warehouse of human condition and you play it out with rigor, veracity and glee. It’s work, and it’s also fun. If you are up for joy-ride, a wild roller-coaster of internal and external revelations, then Action Theater is for you.