2016 NET Intersection Symposium—Can We, Without Speaking, Speak to Everyone?—Sat, May 21, 2016
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2016-05-24

The Network of Ensemble Theaters (NET), in association with Columbia College of Chicago and the League of Chicago Theatres, presents the second event in our multi-year series of national symposia that brings together ensemble artists, practitioners, and educators. This event is livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on May 20—22. In Twitter, use #howlround and follow @NETEnsembles.

This weekend’s programming has been curated for viewing through six core thematic lenses: 1) art + university + community; 2) navigating the academy/industry relationship; 3) movement + physical theatre approaches; 4) cultural pluralism, equity, diversity, and inclusion; 5) technology + innovation; and 6) place.

With growing interest in ensemble scholarship and pedagogy, and an increase in ensemble artists entering academia, today’s “next generation” artists benefit from earlier, more visible, and more frequent access and exposure to ensemble-based training. These opportunities are now offered through numerous universities, colleges, and community youth organizations (as well as directly through professional ensemble companies themselves).

Can We, Without Speaking, Speak to Everyone? 
3:30 pm—5 pm EDT (New York) /2:30 pm—4 pm CDT (Chicago) /11:30 am—1 pm PDT(Los Angeles)

Presenters: Lauren Fisher, Co-Founder & Member, Silent Theatre
Jeff Ginsberg, Associate Professor, Coordinator of the Acting Program, Columbia College Chicago; Board Member, Silent Theatre
Curtis Jackson, Adjunct Faculty, Columbia College Chicago; Co-Founder, Silent Theatre
Tonika Todorova, Co-Founder & Artistic Director, Silent Theatre
Isaiah Robinson, Musical Director, Silent Theatre

A smile is a smile in any language. A broken heart: a universal human condition. In a world of instant communication, advanced technologies, and inundating distractions, we often find ourselves disconnected and misunderstood. Silent Theatre has been actively devising physical theatre performance for the last decade; birthed from their shared student experience at Columbia College Chicago, the ensemble has returned to their alma mater to collaborate on LULU: a live silver screen experience. Through a video montage, performance of excerpted work (devised by Silent Theatre ensemble members and current Columbia College Chicago students), and curated panel, the ensemble will share the discoveries and revelations in their journeys as ensemble-based artists and their evolution as individuals, and how silence has been the best tool for listening to one another. The session will end with a discussion of how academic-born ensembles can find their niche and give back to their communities.

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