https://padlet.com/paulsullivan1/qzwhp2ewzo0h from the documentary: Thomas Richards on working with Jerzy Grotowski en-us 2017-11-10 07:35:42 UTC 2018-01-12 06:42:11 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/paulsullivan1/qzwhp2ewzo0h/wish/205589079 Thomas Richards
Works with Jerzy Grotowski           
White mother and black mother
dealth with racial profiling in school 

Grotowski visited Thomas's school.

Worked in the work center for 30 years.

Every performance appears every 5 minutes. Every performer wanted attention for their performances. An idea of presenting unique creativity

Grotowski is more self-minded.
confident, exposing a hidden power. Songs, movements, actions reveals centers of energy. core power. The human being, spirit is in the now, not in the future nor the past

Practice, practice, practice

Don't follow commercial cliches, have the freedom to put a twist to your devising.

Discover the 'hidden africa'. Discover many things in yourself, creating diversity.

Grotowski Approach:
- A myth
- Physical
- 'Giving one self beyond the mass towards the sky of awakening‘
- Discover that you are not just your body or mind.
- Pure Joy
- "Don't let anyone, take away your smile."

Male and Female Energy= Energetic Unity
Attraction = Prayer

Jerzy trasmitted to Thomas, the inner aspect of the work.
- How performing arts become a terrain in which a human and dive in to the most hidden and profound resovoir, let them arise, move to a transformation. To be in life.
- Transcendence
Turn casual into practice
Take one character, strip off the limitations, and conclude with him being his transcendence

Technique
- work on voice, physicality.
- voice connected to necessity, relation to their action
living voice is content

Not much Dramaturgy
- Break the wall between audience and actors.
- Decisions can be intervenced by inner voice
- Being in the moment, in the work center, tasting the essence, shaping these gifts, creating new approaches to dramaturgy

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- He is a pedagogue

- Uses different styles and cultures to create something new and interesting 

- Uses the body of the actors as tools

- Uses center of energy to release different emotions to create new creative Ideas  

- Uses power to portray confidence

- Wants actors to express creativity

- Uses both voice and extensive physicality during performances

- Believes that the voices presented during his plays should be brought live as it creates a more dramatic scene

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-white mother, black father
-his father was the first black man to direct on broad way.

- Not forced into theater

- He went to yale and was visited by Grotoski 
- Grotoski manipulated song from african culture

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-black father, white mother
- Grotowski was his teacher
-Grotowski had political asylum in california and ran from poland 
-Thirty years of work in italy 
-center of energy

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