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​​ZOOM THEATER: IMPROVISATION AND FORMING
with Peter Schmitz
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2020
2:00-4:00PM EDT


Workshop: $20-$40
Day Pass (Saturday): $30-$100
Festival Pass: $80-$250

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Through improvisational research with movement and with written and spoken language, the emergence of an intimate solo “zoom theater” will occur.  Be willing to ‘not know’  Be willing to acknowledge and accept one’s choices, however surprising.

The zoom square is a particularly sharp boundary.  Seen another way—a potent proscenium frame. We navigate improvisationally each day, addressing not so much what is / was ‘normal’ but what we face/ what we see/ how we notice each day. This two-hour investigation will hopefully engage your presence of attention: acknowledging the boundaries within a fluid understanding of “normal”. Our threshold into this creative work is the acceptance of one’s body in relationship to weight and gravity. Our active creative imagination guides from there. No other expectations.

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PETER B. SCHMITZ has been involved in the creative and performing arts for over four decades as an actor, dancer, choreographer, and educator. With an MFA from Smith College, Peter has served on the Theatre and Dance faculties of Middlebury and Amherst Colleges and has held residencies at many universities. As a professional dancer/choreographer, Peter has worked throughout the United States and in Holland, Germany, France, England, New Zealand and Turkey. He was a founding member of Dance Gallery, a small modern dance company, a member of Creach/Co in New York City for over eight years, and has performed in the works of Wendy Woodson and Present Co., Yanira Castro/acanarytorsi (Bessie nominee for performance 2013), Tamar Rogoff, Richard Colton/Amy Spencer, Jim Coleman and Terese Freedman/Freedman Coleman Dance, and, most recently, he is touring with Ann Carlson in doggie hamlet. He received a “Best Performance” award in the San Francisco Film/Video Festival for his work in a film by Wendy Woodson, “Trout”. He has choreographed for New World Theatre, Medicine Show Theatre and Potomac Theater Project and is a member of Actors Equity. Peter is on the Board of Directors of A.P.E. (Available Potential Enterprises) in Northampton, MA, and he teaches and performs internationally. He lives at Bramble Hill Farm in Amherst, MA with his husband Joey Schmitz.
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