Company of Angels offering Intercultural Collisions Workshop:
In the interest of uniting and serving Los Angeles's artist community, Company of Angels is proud to offer an ongoing workshop series at their new downtown space, the Grand Avenue Club. We are pleased to present Brian Brophy's Intercultural Collisions Workshop!
Through a combination of performance techniques and games drawn from physical theater exercises, the theatrical arsenal of Augusto Boal, improvisatory storytelling, and personal/political/poetical narratives, Mr. Brophy will facilitate the creation of original performance work for invited participants and community members. The workshop will take place Wednesdays, 7pm-10pm, at the Grand Avenue Club, 1024 S. Grand Avenue, in the Art Bar. Please come dressed to move! (Suggested donation: $15-20/session.)
Brian Brophy teaches at Pomona College, CSULA and Cal Arts. Brian has just finished his seventh year as lecturer director for the Performing Arts Dept. at UC Riverside and has recently received a Fulbright lecturer award to study and lecture in India for 2007-08. He is a professional actor with over thirty film credits, from The Shawshank Redemption and Cradle Will Rock, to A Day Without a Mexican (the second largest opening in Mexico's history). A twenty-year member of The Actors' Gang, Brian has also researched community-based theatre as a director, writer, performer and theorist. He has worked with the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) and Cornerstone Theatre Company and has created original work with numerous organizations including Shadow Klan, a youth theatre company who were invited to perform at the International Youth Theater Festival in Mostar, Bosnia. In Mostar, the group received an award for their "multicultural and social-consciousness" in an original, site-specific performance.
Brian's work was also selected as a national model for the 15th Annual National Service Learning Conference in Orlando, Florida, 2004. He serves as a Core Council member for the Center for Theatre of the Oppressed Applied Theater Arts Los Angeles (CTO/ATA/LA), an organization dedicated to the work of Augusto Boal. Brophy has presented his community-based theatre research and findings from Bosnia to Toronto, Omaha, and Minneapolis. He is recently returned from three weeks in Delhi, Calcutta and Varanasi where he attended a conference with Augusto Boal. While in India he was able to follow Jana Sanskriti, a grassroots performance collective working on Forum Theater and issues of empowerment in rural communities of West Bengal and beyond.
