East Meets West -- Theater Workshop for Women

(EAST MEREDITH) The West Kortright Centre is offering a workshop geared for women of all ages. East Meets West: A Theater Workshop for Women will be taught by actress/performance artist Lanny Harrison. The workshop will be held on three Thursdays, August 11, 18 and 25, from 7–9 PM. The workshop will be held off-site in the instructor’s East Meredith studio.

Through exercises that emphasize imagination, improvisation, and transformation, Harrison will lead the group on a voyage of theatrical exploration and contemplative practice. Each session will have eclectic music performed live, and involve sitting meditation, vocal and movement exercises. No experience is required, only a willingness to explore the unexpected. Participants should wear comfortable clothing.

Lanny Harrison, actress, dancer, and cabaret artist, began her career in the New York Pantomime Theater in 1966.  For the past 30 years she has written and performed numerous one-woman shows touring America and Europe, and has been a member of Meredith Monk/The House since 1969.  Ms. Harrison teaches an ongoing theater workshop at the New York Shambhala Center and is a certified meditation instructor in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.  She has taught theater workshops for The West Kortright Centre regularly since 1977 and at Naropa University for many years.  She is currently on the faculty of NYU’s Gallatin Division.

The workshop fee is $55/$45 for WKC Members. For more information, call (607) 278-5454 or visit www.westkc.org and go to ‘workshops’ The Centre is located midway between Oneonta, Delhi, and Stamford. Follow signs from state Route 23 in Davenport Center or state Route 10 east of Delhi. Exact travel directions can be printed from www.westkc.org.

The West Kortright Centre is funded in part by its members, donors to the 2011 Program Fund Drive, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Arthur, Dewar, O’Connor, and Robinson-Broadhurst foundations. The Centre is an active member of New York State Multi-Arts Centers Consortium, which receives funding from the New York State Council on the Arts.