Ruth Zaporah – Action Theater – The Practice

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The Practice of Action Theater Deborah Fort’s long-awaited DVD, Action Theater, The Practice, has arrived and is now available.
This 5.5-hour DVD contains 30 of the most important Action Theater exercises. Senior Teachers show them, along with several examples of open scores. Ruth and other Action Theater improvisers are also featured in live performance footage.
These fascinating and enlightening episodes may be seen on their own, but they can also be viewed with Ruth’s voice running alongside, as she provides her clarity of knowledge of improvisation, observations, and, most importantly, valuable teachings.
For those of you who have practiced Action Theater, this DVD will keep you on track by reminding you of the basics that define Action Theater. For those of you who have just practiced using Ruth’s books, this film will show you the actual purpose of the exercises. And for those of you who have participated in trainings or practiced on your own but have never seen how these activities influence performance, this film clearly displays that.
The film is a training tool. This, together with the books, will be your studio friends for many years.
Ruth’s writings can only take you so far as a practitioner. This film, Action Theater, The Exercise, is a live performance of the practice.

Who exactly is Ruth Zaporah?

Ruth Zaporah is a performance artist, director, and teacher living in New Mexico. She is well-known globally for her pioneering work in the realm of physical theatrical improvisation. This is known as Action Theater.
Zaporah spends the most of her time on the road, performing and giving trainings in Europe, Israel, Asia, and the United States. She began performing in theaters and refugee camps in Serbia and Croatia in 1994. She added Kosovo and Sarajevo to her itinerary in the spring of 2000. Zaporah has received two National Endowment for Choreography fellowships. The San Francisco Bay Area Dance Association awarded her with a Sustained Achievement award in 1994. She is now serving as a Cultural Envoy for the United States State Department.
Ruth’s improvisation essays have appeared on a regular basis in Contact Quarterly, a publication dedicated to innovative dance forms. Her book, ACTION THEATER: THE IMPROVISATION OF PRESENCE, is in its sixth printing and is available from North Atlantic Books.
Visit www.actiontheater.com for more books, articles, and films.

What exactly is Action TheaterTM?

Action TheaterTM is a style of improvisational physical theater training and performance (created by Ruth Zaporah). Movement, vocalization, and speech are all part of the disciplined practice. These exercises train the physical actor to improvise in a powerful, clear, spontaneous, and artistic manner. The abilities acquired are applicable to all performers, whether they work from improvisation or a script. The exercises of Action TheaterTM separate the components of action – time, space, shape, energy, emotion – so that they may be analyzed, experienced, and adjusted in order to broaden the actor’s expressive palette and inner experience. The Action Theater exercises help to clear the mind and focus the mind, allowing for a healthy embodied imagination.
Through the spontaneous action of solo or group improvisations, Action TheaterTM may also be defined as a performance approach in which the experience of the body informs the substance of the moment and gives a map, a route forward.

Deborah Fort is a person.

Deborah Fort is a self-employed digital media artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work varies from documentary to interactive experimental installation. Deborah watched Ruth perform for the first time in 1979 and has never forgotten it. Ruth is still memorable as a teacher and performer thirty years later. Deborah is now working on a film portrait of Ruth, among other things.
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