Are we all met? Feedback on Magis Waves and Text Work

This week in our MFA Columbia University program for actors we will have George Drance coming in as a guest. We will build on our Alexander technique warm up and move into a physical and vocal training developed by Magis Theatre Company (magistheatre.org). One of the things that Magis strives to do is find the connections between disparate techniques rather than honing in on the differences. Here is a little about George:

GEORGE DRANCE has performed and directed in over twenty countries on five continents. New York credits include The Public Theatre/New York Shakespeare Festival, The Metropolitan Opera, La MaMa’s resident company the Great Jones Rep and Ralph Lee’s Mettawee River Theatre Company. With La MaMa, he has toured throughout Europe and Asia, working on several of Ellen Stewart’s original pieces and performing in the Andrei Serban/Elizabeth Swados’ epic Fragments of a Greek Trilogy. Regional credits include The American Repertory Theatre, The New Rep, ImprovBoston, and The Stonington Opera House. He earned his BA from Marquette University and his MFA from Columbia. He has been a guest artist and lecturer at Columbia University, Cornell University, Marquette University, Marymount Manhattan College, Hebrew Union College, and Boston College. He has been on the faculty of the Marist International Center in Nairobi, Kenya, at Red Cloud High School on the Oglala Sioux Reservation. Film credits include Solidarity and The Light of Eons. He currently serves as Artist-in-residence at Fordham University Lincoln Center.

With our first blog entry, we will give feedback about how the Magis exercises, particularly this company's use of images like the red and blue waves helped open up Alexander concepts such as gravity, anti-gravity, suspension, support, inhibition and use.