THE PLABORATORY + OPEN SESSIONS
In 2015, Catherine established The Institute for Collaboration and Play (www.IFCAP.org).
She facilitates the PLABORATORY (A Laboratory for Play). The PLABORATORY is a playground for performers, directors, theatermakers, artists -- anyone interesting in infusing his/her artistic practice with the insights that come from working performatively from a place of play and collaboration.
PLABORATORY POP-UPs are a way for anyone to experience the PLABORATORY. All are welcome.
Please visit www.IFCAP.org for more details on the PLABORATORY and other IFCAP offerings.
She facilitates the PLABORATORY (A Laboratory for Play). The PLABORATORY is a playground for performers, directors, theatermakers, artists -- anyone interesting in infusing his/her artistic practice with the insights that come from working performatively from a place of play and collaboration.
PLABORATORY POP-UPs are a way for anyone to experience the PLABORATORY. All are welcome.
Please visit www.IFCAP.org for more details on the PLABORATORY and other IFCAP offerings.
Past Offerings
(re)discover. Summer, 2016.
An Artistic Infusion Intensive!
Saturday, July 9, 10-5
Saturday, July 16, 10-5
(there will be a break for lunch)
$200
$175 PLAB Members
Zen House
165 Allen St
Between Stanton + Rivington
This two-day intensive facilitates a personal and communal investigation into your individual creativity.
Key questions include:
Who are you as an artist?
What is your artistic lineage?
What kind of impact do you want to make in art + the world?
What values drive your making? What practices activate your making?
Articulate and discern personal aesthetic and purpose within your art-making. Please bring a project in development as an additional point of reference that will be explored via this laboratory.
Course structure includes two full Saturdays + one mid-week individual meeting with the instructor.
Anticipate assignments throughout the course.
Appropriate for artists seasoned in their work and at the beginning of a new stage of working.
Come prepared to vibrantly discover, dismantle and rediscover your artistry.
(re)discover
Get infused!
To register or ask questions, please email Dana at [email protected] or visit www.IFCAP.org.
Saturday, July 9, 10-5
Saturday, July 16, 10-5
(there will be a break for lunch)
$200
$175 PLAB Members
Zen House
165 Allen St
Between Stanton + Rivington
This two-day intensive facilitates a personal and communal investigation into your individual creativity.
Key questions include:
Who are you as an artist?
What is your artistic lineage?
What kind of impact do you want to make in art + the world?
What values drive your making? What practices activate your making?
Articulate and discern personal aesthetic and purpose within your art-making. Please bring a project in development as an additional point of reference that will be explored via this laboratory.
Course structure includes two full Saturdays + one mid-week individual meeting with the instructor.
Anticipate assignments throughout the course.
Appropriate for artists seasoned in their work and at the beginning of a new stage of working.
Come prepared to vibrantly discover, dismantle and rediscover your artistry.
(re)discover
Get infused!
To register or ask questions, please email Dana at [email protected] or visit www.IFCAP.org.
CLOWN. Fall, 2015.
CLOWN. Be amazing and be amazed.
FALL 2015 CLOWN WEEKEND
Friday, October 30, 7-10 pm
Saturday, October 31, 10-5
Sunday, November 1, 10-5
(there will be a break for luncheon!)
$175
Class size strictly limited
Zen House, 165 Allen Street, NYC
(between Stanton + Rivington)
This work will vigorously thrust you into an investigation of your role inside the comic world.
Set aside your socialized self for one of epic dynamism. Have more fun, connect joyfully with an audience, and cultivate curiosity and vulnerability. Be vibrant in pursuit of your playful essence, the start of your art.
Become magic onstage.
Catherine has been studying, creating and working in clown since 1999. She is a certified Chris Bayes clown teacher. She has led residencies in clown/physical theater at universities and actor training programs across the country and continues to make work through the lens of clown as an actor/creator and director.
Reclaim your wonder! Restore your delight!
Get to the heart of the matter: YOU.
CLOWN.
Be amazing and be amazed.
To register or ask questions, please email wonderchamber @ gmail.com
FALL 2015 CLOWN WEEKEND
Friday, October 30, 7-10 pm
Saturday, October 31, 10-5
Sunday, November 1, 10-5
(there will be a break for luncheon!)
$175
Class size strictly limited
Zen House, 165 Allen Street, NYC
(between Stanton + Rivington)
This work will vigorously thrust you into an investigation of your role inside the comic world.
Set aside your socialized self for one of epic dynamism. Have more fun, connect joyfully with an audience, and cultivate curiosity and vulnerability. Be vibrant in pursuit of your playful essence, the start of your art.
Become magic onstage.
Catherine has been studying, creating and working in clown since 1999. She is a certified Chris Bayes clown teacher. She has led residencies in clown/physical theater at universities and actor training programs across the country and continues to make work through the lens of clown as an actor/creator and director.
Reclaim your wonder! Restore your delight!
Get to the heart of the matter: YOU.
CLOWN.
Be amazing and be amazed.
To register or ask questions, please email wonderchamber @ gmail.com
MAKE/SHOW - Schedule TBD!
MAKE/SHOW - A course for the Actor/Creator
Take the reigns of your artistic progression. Make the work you yearn to see and be a part of. Propel your creative process and investigate your artistry in action! Make/Show is a new 8-week course designed to give the generative theater artist the space, tools, critical development and support to create a piece of physical theater - your piece of physical theater.
Designed in response to a growing trend of theater artists taking control of their creative output and specifically geared towards visually arresting, non-traditional performance styles, this course is led by Catherine Mueller of The Orchard Project. It is a hands-on, provocative and playful voyage beginning with a work-in-development or nascent project of the artist's choosing which is nurtured and worked upon in and out of class towards a small public showing at the end.
This course will provide a time-frame, impetus, ideas, feedback, provocation, deadline and audience! Artists must apply with a strongly formed sense of their piece - this can be in the form of a script, a research scrap-book, part of a show already made or a well articulated sense of the world, theme and style of the piece they have in mind. Participants must also demonstrate a commitment to a concentrated period of rehearsal on their piece outside of class.
Throughout this course you will meet other like-minded artists, receive feedback from prominent NY creators of physical theater and be given 12 hours of free rehearsal space.
WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR? This course is for actor/creators who are:
Maximum course size: 8 students
For more information, please visit www.movementtheaterstudio.com.
Take the reigns of your artistic progression. Make the work you yearn to see and be a part of. Propel your creative process and investigate your artistry in action! Make/Show is a new 8-week course designed to give the generative theater artist the space, tools, critical development and support to create a piece of physical theater - your piece of physical theater.
Designed in response to a growing trend of theater artists taking control of their creative output and specifically geared towards visually arresting, non-traditional performance styles, this course is led by Catherine Mueller of The Orchard Project. It is a hands-on, provocative and playful voyage beginning with a work-in-development or nascent project of the artist's choosing which is nurtured and worked upon in and out of class towards a small public showing at the end.
This course will provide a time-frame, impetus, ideas, feedback, provocation, deadline and audience! Artists must apply with a strongly formed sense of their piece - this can be in the form of a script, a research scrap-book, part of a show already made or a well articulated sense of the world, theme and style of the piece they have in mind. Participants must also demonstrate a commitment to a concentrated period of rehearsal on their piece outside of class.
Throughout this course you will meet other like-minded artists, receive feedback from prominent NY creators of physical theater and be given 12 hours of free rehearsal space.
WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR? This course is for actor/creators who are:
- Creating work as a solo-performer or within an ensemble*
- New to the territory of actor/creator but find its possibilities liberating and captivating
- Searching for new performance-based tools and techniques
- Searching for a specific structure to nourish and explore an existing performance-based work
- Seeking artistic dialogue, creative networking, provocation, and growth
Maximum course size: 8 students
For more information, please visit www.movementtheaterstudio.com.
Personal Project Development - ongoing
Engage in a highly individualized and specialized artistic process, designed to stimulate, provoke and enhance your current artistic yearnings. First, an outline is created to articulate a set of goals for your personal creative project. Then, in a series of sessions, the length and duration of which as best suits your project and budget, Catherine serves as provocateur, point person, director, dramaturg and audience, guiding you through a phase of development that both deepens and expands your process of artistic research, your performance aesthetic and purpose and project content.
