ARCHIVE — Past Events
2008
* Poetic License was remounted at Factory Studio
Theatre Feb 14-March
2, 2008
Fri Feb 15 to Sun Mar 2, 2008
Factory Studio Theatre
125 Bathurst Street (at Adelaide)
Wed - Sat at 8 PM Sundays at 2:30 PMTickets: (416) 504-9971 online at factorytheatre.ca
or at the door. Regular $25, Sunday PWYC
* 1848 Experiment # 1 appeared in Rhubarb 2008 at
Buddies in Bad Times
Feb 20-24 8pm every evening in the Chamber Theatre
This was a work in progress duet created by Batdorf in collaboration
with dancer Kate Digby from New York and actor Adam Seybold from Toronto
* In May Batdorf worked with The
Thistle Project on their two hander version of Peer Gynt featuring
Christine Horne and Matthew Romantini
Practical tools for creating original theatre from A-Z Part 1
Monday Feb 25th, 2008 10-5 $75
This is a basic comprehensive introduction to creating original work. This is primarily an informational session covering practical issues regarding creation and production of your own work. It can be applied to solo work as well as devised theatre in general. Bring a notebook.
Practical tools for creating original theatre from A-Z Part 2
Monday Mar 3rd, 2008 10-5 $75 or $140 for both days
This workshop includes individual feedback on material and ideas. This will also be very practical and will address not just creation ideas- but also personal challenges- such as- How do I support this work? How do I stay committed? This is best for someone who already has a sense of how they work and questions/problems that they have encountered. This will be a smaller group and more focused on responding to your particular projects and challenges. Bring your ideas, questions, dreams, obstacles and a large notebook with no lines.
Sourcing and Structuring Original Theatrical Material
Tuesday-Friday Mar 4-7th, 2008 1-5 $200
This is creation based entirely and includes exercises on sourcing material, extending material, homework and feedback. We will cover exercises for sourcing and structuring material using nature, music, story and autobiography. Bring a large notebook with no lines.
All three workshops for $325
2007
* Gorey Story was nominated for 4 Doras! Outstanding direction, play, production and costume design!!
* Erika had a very busy 2007 and had a great time doing some theatrical coaching for Denise Fujiwara’s dance piece No Exit based on Sartre’s play that appeared at the Enwave Theatre in April, 2007.
* She also worked as movement coach on an exciting production of Twilight Café by Tony Hall directed by Rhoma Spencer that open Wednesday May 16th at The Theatre Centre.
* In May 2007, Erika was workshopping Bird’s Eye View that was presented in Summerworks in August in Toronto. Obsessed with flight, a prisoner under surveillance escapes into a tiny world of her own creation. Set to an original musical score, Bird's Eye View is a visually evocative multi-media puppet show inspired by Oscar Wilde and his work. This is a solo co-created and directed by Erika and performed by puppeteer, theatre creator and performer Faye Dupras, of Foreign Landscapes.
Bird’s Eye View will also be presented in Boston next year. Check back for those details.
* In June 2007 Erika developed a dance/theatre duet with Kate Digby of NYC’s Digby Dance http://www.digbydance.org and with Toronto actor Adam Seybold that will premier in Boston in April 2008.
* Monday, September 24, 2007 Erika Batdorf did a 4 min performance from Poetic License at Kaleidoscope @ Yonge-Dundas Square.
* Mar 22- Apr 8, 2007 The finished version of The Red Horse had
a three
week run at The Great Hall (The Theatre
Centre), Toronto.
Written and Performed by Erika Batdorf
Directed by Todd Hammond
Dramaturg Iris Turcott
Lighting Designer Kimberly Purtell
Sound Designer J. Rigzin TuteBased on the journals of Thaya Whitten, a Nova Scotian painter, performance artist and musician, The Red Horse is Leaving travels through the dangerous territory of creative inspiration, sacrifice and clinical madness in the pursuit of artistic excellence and beauty.
* January and June 2007 Erika continued work on a new piece of choreography
for
Kate Digby of Digby Dance, New York.
2006
*Nov 20, 2006 She performed Poetic License at The
Jakarta Arts
Center for the 7th
International Women Playwrights Conference in Indonesia. She
also offered a workshop at the conference entitled: Tools for Effective
Audience Interactive Performance
*Oct 31, 2006 Gorey Stories : A macabre and comic tale based on Edward Gorey's The Gashlycrumb Tinies. A story of neglect and human denial; an ABC of twenty-six dead children.
Directed by Erika Batdorf, adapted by Matthew Romantini and Christine Horne, opening Halloween at 10.30pm and playing Fridays through Sundays at 8pm in November at the Artists' Play Studio Theatre, 290 Carlaw, Suite 101 [map]. Tickets $20. Sundays PWYC or $15 in advance.
Box Office 1.888.222.6608 or www.totix.ca
*Erika performed The Red Horse is Leaving, at the 1st International
Conference on Performance Art Theory, held from Oct. 4-6, 2006 in Tijuana, Baja
California, Mexico, at the Escuela
Superior de Artes Visuales.
* Sept 2006 Erika started work on a new piece of choreography for Kate
Digby
of Digby Dance, New York.
*Sept 21, 2006
Erika performed The Red Horse is Leaving, at the
Baha'i
Association for Mental Health Professionals at Louhelen in Davison,
Michigan. She
also gave a lecture/discussion entitled: What do we Fear? The Arts and
the
Integration of the Body in Spiritual and Healing Practice.
*July 24- August 4, 2006 she was directing the workshop of Gorey
Stories for
The Thistle Project
*July 14, 15, 2006 she presented the second workshop version of The
Red Horse
is Leaving at CanStage
*Feb 8-12, 2006 she presented the first workshop version of The
Red Horse is
Leaving at Rhubarb! at Buddies
in Bad Times Theatre
