An international center for performance, collaboration, and training
Contact us:
training
@doubleedgetheatre.org
413 628 0277
What our alumni have to say...
"The thing that I loved about the farm was that they believed that everyone had the power to create...The ability to make art is not restricted to a few great minds. It lies in all of us. In a field where people continually say, 'you can't,' I found it revitalizing to have a company of performers telling me whole-heartedly that I could."
"Your training has a magical way of making the impossible accessible. I was humbled, focused, and inspired here. It turned my world upside-down. Thank you."
"The whole three weeks were an ever-growing process of moving within and toward the 'impossible,' fully supported by the Double Edge ensemble...I recommend the program to those who want to discover their most malleable self and are willing and excited to walk with their greatest fears."
Summer Intensive
June 2-23, 2012
Program Description
The Summer Intensive, one of Double Edge's most popular training programs, is ideal for artists of any discipline who are interested in developing their own work in an ensemble context. Over the course of three weeks students take part in 3-4 training sessions daily including:
- physical training
- vocal work
- instrumental work
- work with large objects
- design
- improvisation
- dramaturgy
- research
- indoor and outdoor site-specific work
The sessions take place both in Double Edge's indoor training spaces and outside in the fields, hills, pond and pastures of the Farm Center. The program incorporates the creation of individual and group etudes (studies) which can culminate in a public presentation directed by a Double Edge ensemble member. The research in this summer’s program will use as a foundation the rich visual world of 20th-century painter Marc Chagall, whose images of flight, circus and parade offer new opportunities to explore narrative and the dramaturgy of image. The Summer Intensive is open to students of all levels of experience.
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Housing
All students are housed at Double Edge's international center for theatre collaboration, in an historic 1830s boarding house in Ashfield center. Student housing includes a shared kitchen, living room, grounds and bedrooms. The house a short walk away from Ashfield Lake, Elmers Cafe, the post office, a lanudromat, Ashfield Library and the Ashfield Lakehouse (a local bar/restaurant). Phone and internet usage is an additional, one-time fee of $10.
Tuition and Application Deadlines
To download an application form, click HERE.
Tuition and payments:
Tuition: $2,450
Housing: $300
Food: $250
Total program cost: $3,000
Upon acceptance, a deposit of $500 is due within one week. The remaining tuition is due within a month. Program tuition is non-refundable.
Tuition is payable via check, over the phone with a credit card, via bank wire transfer, or through the Paypal link to the right. To download our wire transfer form, click here (international transfer fee is $36).
Contact Us
Write or call with your questions about the Summer Intensive, our training, or the larger scope of our company's work. You can contact Jeremy Eaton, Student Programs Manager, at:
training@doubleedgetheatre.org or 413.628.0277