Roving Classical Commedia University* Events
Commedia dell'Arte Intensives
Creating Original Material workshop
Mask making workshops
Metaphysical Mask Lab

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co-produced with
Mask Arts Company www.maskarts.com

Due to Storm Sandy damaging the studio we use for our NYC summer workshop, we are talking the opportunity to offer our five day Commedia dell'Arte workshop. In July will be conducting a Creating Original Material workshop. In 2014 we will be return to a three or four week intensive ending in open performances.

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Commedia dell'Arte
Summer Workshop 2013
June 24 - 28, 2013
actors, artists, dancers, directors, teachers, students & variety artists

$465 - 5 days
New York, NY

Roving Classical Commedia University* (RCCU*)
RCCU teaching Classical Commedia dell'Arte since 2001 as close to its original form as we believe it was performed in the 1500's to 1600's. You develop your personal historical Commedia dell'Arte characters and style with your individual qualities.

Areas of concentration:
Commedia dell'Arte characters
History of the characters; their movement and gestures, improvisation, lazzi, mask work, physical skills, prop manipulation, rhythm, scatology, scenario work, and more; all integrated.
Arlecchino
Pantalone
Dottore
Capitano
Brighella
Lovers

Women of the Commedia dell'Arte

Scenario & Improvisation
Much of the scenario and improvisation work will be from our own translation of four Flaminio Scala scenarii* we believe were performed by the legendary Gelosi Company 1572 to 1604, plus an anonymous scenario from 1611 we recently discovered.

Daily Schedule
optional personal warm-up 8:30 AM
classes: 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Lunch
classes: 1:30 PM - 4:00 or 5:30
35 hours of total class time

Taught by master teacher:
Stanley Allan Sherman Bio, Reviews & Client Quotes

information and to book a workshop with your you school or theater company
212-255-2882
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e-mail commediau.com

NYC workshop housing options:
Bed & Breakfasts, Sublets, Roommates, Hostels, YMCA's & More

Download pdf Commedia dell'Arte
summer workshop flyer

Academic credit: Total contact hours of class time 35 hours.
For students or teachers seeking academic credit please discuss the possibility with your academic advisor about receiving credit as independent study. Teachers seeking CEU's, please speak with your administration about receiving credit for this non-accredited workshop. We are happy to help you with any documentation you will need. A public school teacher has receive credit for our workshop.

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Guest teachers & artists that work with us
Because the Commedia dell'Arte actor is diversely talented, RCCU* brings in talented guest artists and teachers that specialize in specific areas. We are pleased Meggi, Paul, Keith and Michela will be joining us this summer.

Meggi Sweeney Smith with the New York Baroque Dance Company, teaches acrobatics and dances the Commedia dell'Arte actors performed in Northern Italy in the late 1500's.

Paul Shipper's Grammy Nominee, concentration is on voice production and diction for both speaking and singing, and playing simple instrumental music from the Commedia dell'Arte period using both wind and string instruments. Of course students also discover how to use these instruments as props.

Keith Nelson is cofounder of the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, performing world wide. Keith is a master teacher of prop manipulation.

Michela Musolino is an Italian singer, musician and folk dancer. She will be teaching Sicilian and Southern Italian tambourine.

A certificate will be presented to students on the completion of the three weeks intensive workshop.

New York NY

* scenarii, plural for scenario

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"Jacque Lecoq told our class close to our graduation day in 1972 "Do not wait for the great part to be written for you, create it yourself." This helped me live as a performer and creator since 1972". Stanley Allan Sherman

Creating Original Material
Workshop Lab

June 17 - 21 New York NY
5 days

9:00 AM to 4:00 PM sometimes 5:00 PM

This lab covers the many techniques, practices and road maps to create your original material and show. This knowledge comes from my teachers, mentors, colleagues, a lot that I have developed, discovered and use.

The goal is to create your own material and ultimately your own show. Creating is hard, then fun, then exhilarating.

$445 - individuals working solo
$395 - per person for partnerships working together

Creating Original Material is the next step in performance development. Working though changes with Stanley illuminates a path that can be used again and again. - Michael Getlan

The workshop challenged me to jump-start a project I had been incubating. I was surprised--astonished, really--at how it fell together in the workshop. Before this, I had never imagined myself as able to write for myself. Now I have proven to myself that I can compile a performance from a simple prop and an idea. - Jonathan Slaff

Stanley has an amazing eye for developing material, for seeing where the opportunities lay in a scene; but more importantly, he's able to communicate and inspire performers to find these opportunities for themselves. The class is a joy. - R David Robinson

Taught by:
Stanley Allan Sherman
bio, reviews & client quotes

212-255-2882
Contact Stanley

Latest blog post Creating Original Material blog
What! Me? I thought there was nothing new.

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Leather Clown Nose making workshop
July 9th & 10th 6:00 PM
$200

Includes all material, tools and supplies which you get to keep plus an extra piece of leather to make a nose on your own.
Two sessions about 2 1/2 to 4 hour each. Other days are possible if there is interest. For detailed information about the custom fitted clown noses class go to http://www.maskarts.com/maskartsclown.html

Mask-making classes will run on a flexible schedule during July mainly in the mornings starting at 9:30 AM. Class can be from 1 to 4 hours depending on what stage in the process we are at. Afternoon and evening classes are also possible.

All mask-making classes covers:
Design development
Sculpture of the mask
Mask Making Technique for Paper or cloth, neoprene latex and or leather Materials, supplies tools and where to get them or how to make them

Paper & Cloth Meche
July 8th - 12th to 15th
$325
This class includes all your basic supplies, paper, clay, tools and glue. Students can bring in cloth for cloth meche.

Neoprene Latex
July 8th - 17th to 19th
$450 (take both Paper and Cloth Meche and Neoprene Latex $595)
This class includes all your basic supplies, clay, tools, mold making material, neoprene latex and some finishing materials. People are free to bring in special paints and other finishing materials. This class includes how to put in hair.

Leather Mask Making
July 8th - 23rd to 28th
In the mornings and sometimes in the afternoons
$1,945 (take all three mask making classes $2,275)
This class includes some of your basic supplies like clay, some sculpture tools, master mold making material, some leather and some finishing materials. Part of the class is buying your own leather tools and some optional finishing tools. Buying and making tools and supplies is part of this class.

It is common for student to take their clay sculptures home with them to work on them.

Taught by:
Stanley Allan Sherman
bio, reviews & client quotes

212-255-2882
Contact Stanley

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Metaphysical Training Mask Carlo Mazzone-Clementi developed, we continue the explorations.

"After the first theater Metaphysical Mask Lab, I walked out of the studio and all day I saw the world in a deeper more revealing way." - Stanley Allan Sherman

Metaphysical mask -
Neutral Mask Lab

"Character starts with the foot."
- Carlo Mazzone-Clementi

Over this last year we have completed two explorations with the Metaphysical mask and have discovered a lot about this powerful mask.

For 5 days we will explore the Neutral with the Metaphysical mask using Metaphysical current and new exercises as well as Jacque Lecoq's, Neutral mask exercises.

Stanley Allan Sherman created a Metaphysical Mask with and for Carlo. A year ago with the help of Peter Kors we found out how Carlo used the Metaphysical Mask. Because of these labs Stanley has exchanged information with others in Europe and the United States that use the Metaphysical Mask, including Ole Brekke that has replace the Neutral mask with the Metaphysical mask at The Commedia School.

These are pioneering investigative labs. This work is quite amazing and helpful with many forms of theater, bringing one to use only the minimal movement that is needed. The Metaphysical Mask gets to the soul of the performer and actor. This is a physical mask movement lab for actor, clowns, directors, dancers and creators.

Metaphysical - Neutral Mask Lab::
email us click here commediau.com or call 212-255-2882

The August lab in 2011 with Peter Kors & Stanley Allan Sherman was a big success. Here's a video by Jim Moore "Metaphysical Mask Improv" on his blog http://vaudevisuals.com.

Join the new Metaphysical Mask Connections group on facebook.

Mask Arts Company Blog http://maskarts.com/wordpress

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