TANGHALANG PILIPINO’S SUMMER ACTING WORKSHOP 2012

Mash-ups, repertoire and ballad: do these words sound familiar? Thanks to the popularity surge of television shows such as Glee, more and more individuals, young and old, are getting more acquainted with theatre. And if you happen to catch the theater bug yourself, you ask, how do you cater to this interest?

This summer, discover that there is much more to the arts than entertainment as Tanghalang Pilipino once again conducts its annual Summer Acting Workshop. With a four week long program, Tanghalang Pilipino (TP) will not only deliver classes for aspiring young thespians but also adults aiming to develop their skills in various aspects of theater whether it be onstage or backstage.

From the vibrant spectacle of costumes and set design towards endearing dance numbers and moving punch lines, theater as a multi-disciplinary form of art holds a plethora of opportunities for individuals to develop both mind and body.
With classes on Children’s Theater, TP teaches creative dramatics to kids using games, storytelling, movements, music and props as tools of expression. This allows enrolled students not only to channel their creativity in acting but also improve their communication skills through speech and body language.

For young adults, TP offers the courses on Teen Theater and Beginning Acting which integrate creative drama, music, writing, movement and visual arts. The courses also introduce its students to the basic rudiments of acting such as improvisation, script analysis and characterization.

Love musicals? It’s time to practice your vocal chords as TP also offers classes that synthesize acting, movement and singing in a theater production. If you have the bold dream of becoming the next superstar in theater, this could be your starting point.
If you are the type to avoid the glitz of the spotlight, TP also conducts courses on Stage and Production Management that is suitable for aspiring stage managers. Be the boss backstage while you test your skills and learn new ones in organizing a production.

You’ll be in good hands when you take on any of these courses as the instructors of the Tanghalang Pilipino are not only knowledgeable in the various theories of theater but they also have substantial experiences to back it. With our seasoned actors who have a list of successful shows on their credentials, you just know that you’ll have an entertaining and enriching workshop.

It only gets better as veteran actors onscreen and onstage serve as speakers to share their unique acting experiences in theater. Experts in the field will also deliver interesting talks on “Arts as Therapy” and also on “Adolescent Creativity and Giftedness” as part of the workshop. The speakers this year include: Shamaine Centenera-Buencamino, Irma Adlawan-Marasigan, Antony Buencamino, Dr. Grace Evangelista and Dr. Letty Ho.

To cap off the TP summer program, students will take part in a recital at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and will get the chance to be invited to audition or perform in regular season plays and special shows produced by the Tanghalang Pilipino.

The TP summer workshop is scheduled on the 10th of April 2012.The course fee is 8,000 Php but TP also offers a generous early bird rate of 6,000 for individuals who enroll before March 15, 2012. We all need some art in our lives whether it’s the ability to speak our minds with words or through movement, or just getting used to improvisation as spontaneous events happen to us on a daily basis. This workshop is a great opportunity for this goal as TP gives us the stage; all we have to do is take it and engage.

Have you ever thought about those stop signs? How many. I mean, how many have I ran through in my life? I just roll right through them, I slid up, take a quick glance, and then meander off. So many of them have been slow signs.

What am I getting at? Where am I trying to go? I don’t understand why I speed so much. Am I afraid something will catch up to me? Or am I afraid I won’t catch up to something? What am I chasing? Why do I care?

I wish I didn’t. I wish I wasn’t chasing anything, I wish I had more time in my life, or at least I thought I did. But I do, I really do. Why can’t I wait at a stop sign and look around, take in my surroundings, really observe? Do I not care anymore? Life is becoming a blur, it’s monotonous. Do I think I see everything?

How much have I missed by going through a stop sign?

-Me

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I will not be tied down to another person. I will not drop litter. I will listen to music and smile. And it will roll through the far reaching corners of my being and sting a little, a lot, just enough to remind me that people must do things to make other people crazy, a little, a lot, just enough.

I will sometimes do my hair. I will sometimes not shower enough. I will moisturize for softer skin. The people I refuse to be tied to will want to kiss me. I will pay attention to scents, and the wind, and the sunlight. I will listen to the night. I will not beat myself up about work. In fact, I will not think of work as work, but as something brilliant ingrained with the potential to teach me everything I don’t yet know, and help me unlearn the things that hold me back.

I will love. I will pause for breath after each thought. I will stand in the cold in big jackets. And I will have all the warmth i need inside of them. My chest will radiate. With colors. Like sunlight highlights floating particles of dust when it hits gravity just right.

I will be a me, even without you. But I can also a me with you, and you, and you. I will be a me alone, and a me at the park, and a me playing video games, and a me being a leader, and a me being a listener. I will dance. Sometimes. To loud music. To slow music. And to no music at all.

I will…

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We’ve done a lot this year haven’t we? You’ve changed me by accident, because obviously you have no idea you exist in this world. You are words to me. Well… Not always.

Do you remember me early one? I fell for you June 2006. I deemed you amazing though you were just a boy you saw for a short while. You had a smile that lit my head on fire, you took my soul when you walked away and never tried to speak to me again. And after a years I decided to write to you, I made this blog, I made hope again after letting it fade. But one day I knew it was nothing and I was meant to fade.

Future, you don’t know me. I don’t exist to you yet, you don’t exist to me. We are separate people and I wrote to you because I want you so dearly and I cannot wait for your voice or the tips of your fingers to skate mine. But you are a silhouette, a dream in the shade. I’ll wait, I’m still waiting.

And the next boy, oh we all know the two months you held of me, the way you had my mind and the roses and the songs and the dance. All we spent together. And the pain you left with me. A poet always seems to cry himself to sleep. But I stopped after awhile, I let go. I don’t regret it. But some of me wishes we had lasted longer.

But now, these are all to you. As in no one. They are written to life, to my future, or my past or present. I’m not sure. But most likely they are written to be written, because I need the words and because I will never let go of you. And by you, I mean the world. I will always be writing to life.

Happy New Year. Let’s dream high and climb even higher trees.

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