RITUAL — The Conscious Performer
March 25, 2018
RITUAL is an immersive one day workshop aimed at people who wish to explore the art of conscious performance. Conscious performance includes dramatherapy ritual structures, somatic approaches to movement and voice work.
The workshop will also focus on play and its many therapeutic benefits. We will explore together the intentional use of drama and theatre process as a tool to bring about change and transformation, and will experience somatic practices such as authentic movement and soundings.
Aimed at performers, dancers, artists, creative arts therapists, drama facilitators and anyone with an interest in exploring the arts as a tool to raise personal awareness and consciousness levels.
Facilitated by Marianne Marcote and Michael McCabe.
Time: 10AM-5.30PM
Venue: Oscailt. 8 Pembroke Road. Dublin 4
Fee: €95
Unwaged €80
Limited to 15 participants.
To book your place, please send us an email including a short paragraph stating the reasons why you would like to take part.
Booking: mariannemarcote@gmail.com
The workshop will also focus on play and its many therapeutic benefits. We will explore together the intentional use of drama and theatre process as a tool to bring about change and transformation, and will experience somatic practices such as authentic movement and soundings.
Aimed at performers, dancers, artists, creative arts therapists, drama facilitators and anyone with an interest in exploring the arts as a tool to raise personal awareness and consciousness levels.
Facilitated by Marianne Marcote and Michael McCabe.
Time: 10AM-5.30PM
Venue: Oscailt. 8 Pembroke Road. Dublin 4
Fee: €95
Unwaged €80
Limited to 15 participants.
To book your place, please send us an email including a short paragraph stating the reasons why you would like to take part.
Booking: mariannemarcote@gmail.com
Marianne Araújo Marcote I am a Dramatherapist MA [Hons 1.1] Maynooth University. My approach to dramatherapy is directly informed by 20 years background of performance practice and research that focused on the connection between body-mind, impulse and action; theatre as a vehicle for the exploration and expression of the self. I began my career in Spain, where I was born, and in 1998 I moved to Ireland and co-founded the theatre laboratory nervousystem. l have closely collaborated with members of The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowsky and Thomas Richards and theatre practitioner Gey Pin Ang. I have performed and facilitated training sessions and cultural exchanges in countries such as Poland, Italy, Spain, Russia, Singapore and Ireland. As a performer theatre has enabled me to get in touch with something beyond the limitations of everyday life, with something closer to the essence of being — to the inside flame that keeps us alive but that at times gets shadowed by the business and responsibilities placed upon us by ourselves and others. Theatre became the mirror where I could see myself for what I am; a way to process life, to heal wounds, to be vulnerable and grow stronger. It is this personal experience of the power of theatre as a healing medium that brought me to train as a Dramatherapist and develop the work of the Conscious Performer. As a Dramatherapist I am passionate about providing this space to others, a space where is safe to explore the direct link between our creative self (body, mind and imagination) and our mental health, including the different roles we play and how these roles can, at times, take us further away from ourselves. I am also a somatic movement practitioner with my current research focusing on the use of somatic movement, voice vibration and mindfulness into performance. My most recent solo piece, BIRTH, explores the somatic experience of becoming a mother. I am an active member of Mothers Artists Makers with whom I performed at the Abbey Theatre the piece Observe the Mothers of Theatre Marching Towards the Stage. My latest film credits include, Maya Derrington’s forthcoming film Frida Think. |
Michael McCabe Michael McCabe is a graduate of the Ecole Internationale de Theater Jacques Lecoq, Paris, the Gaiety School of Acting, and the National Unversity of Ireland Maynooth (M.A. Honours in Dramatherapy). He trained with the internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart, in New York and works as a theatre actor specialised in movement and clowning, as a dancer and as a director. Michael has been working as a movement director since 2002 at the Dublin Institute of Technology, the Department of Performing Arts and Dance, Bray Institute of Further Education, and as a Dramatherapist with children in Rua Red Arts Centre and the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland. He also lectures in Drama for the Conservatory of Music and Drama at DIT, KWETB, and the M.A. in Dramatherapy programme at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. His extensive theatre appearances include ‘The Ginger Ale Boy’, (Corcadorca Theatre Company), ‘Lives Worth Living’ (Graffitti Theatre Company), ‘A Day With Daghdha’, (Daghdha Dance Company), ‘Macbeth’ (The Abbey Theatre), ‘City Of Clowns’ (Barabbas Theatre Company), and ‘Pagliacci’ (The Everyman Palace Theatre) which won best opera in The Irish Times Theatre awards 2013. He is artistic director of Lumiere Theatre Company and his next creative projects in 2018 include directing ‘Collecting Dolls’ a new play funded by The Arts Council, performing his new solo show ‘The Last Conductor’, and working with choreographer Karen Gleeson on an exciting movement production. Michael is also a Quantum Coherence therapist (energetic healing) and trainee Tai Chi teacher at the Irish Tai Chi’Chuan association, has been practicing Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin for 20 years, and this April will be co-facilitating ‘The Mindful Hero’ at The Sanctuary Centre, a workshop exploring the hero work of Joseph Campbell through theatre, dance, and meditation. He is interested in creating a space for all to access the true self through the potential of theatre. |