Moon Fool
- hosting international exchange & training to make high quality theatre, music & education projects that explore, intensify & celebrate life. Founded as a platform for international theatre makers to exchange skills and develop shared practice in the UK. Such ‘Theatre Exchange’ led to establishing a unique ensemble training called Actor - Chorus - Text (ACT), conceived, devised and led by Anna-Helena McLean drawing inspiration from her roots in Gardzienice the Centre for Theatre Practices in Poland married with personal research and international collaboration. ACT uses techniques, combining music, movement and text work, that remove inhibitions and artificial constraints and liberate the individual to return to a more natural and primal state from which creativity and partnership is born with the aim of developing ensemble art work. After years of participating in, collaborating within and leading such practice, Anna-Helena has developed formal dramaturgical templates through which actors, students and young people can improvise, devise and discover new personal boundaries.
“Anna-Helena’s training is stunning and unique, and it makes a profound contribution to the Grotowski-based and Polish theater training lineages. It combines great joy and playfulness with a very serious and rigorous attempt to explore and express oneself more deeply, more greatly. She uses a comprehensive array of methods aimed at the body, the breath, and the voice to unlock personal impulse, to increase focus and sensitivity, and to bring the actor into the realm of uncertainty, where he is most likely to find something new about himself. Her ecstatic warmth and vibrant energy created a most inviting and forgiving atmosphere where we are able to experience practices developed under much more austere circumstances. I felt as though I was able to tap into the mystery and power of the work in a way that was made accessible even in a short workshop period. Moon Fool’s Actor - Chorus - Text training incorporates methods and exercises from all over the world and from many different forms of theater, the training is uncompromising. It demands that I as an actor do more, be more, be larger, more vibrant and unique. This, in my opinion, is an example of the ultimate in theatrical training”. Thom Pasculli Director at Links Hall and VOX, Chicago
“... What notions I had of how Shakespeare 'should' be done were changed completely by my experience with you, my eyes have been opened to new and more exciting possibilities and I feel, in myself much more free... “
Anneika Rose Royal Shakespeare Company
Associated websites
•www.wearedayandnight.bandcamp.org
•www.richardsonprm.com
•www.videofeet.com
•http://wearedayandnight.tumblr.com/
•www.aegisproductions.co.uk
•www.trestle.org.uk
•www.thequadrangletrust.com
•www.studiooneeighty.com
•www.theworkingparty.org
•www.gardzienice.art.pl
•www.piesnkozla.pl
•www.awakeproject.com
•www.rcs.ac.uk
•www.aubrana.com
•www.lumii.org
•www.jasminaandannahelena.wordpress.com
Enquiries
Email: [email protected]
