Workshops
These workshops present an exceptional opportunity for actors,
non-actors and anyone who is committed to, or simply interested
in, the creative process.
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Student comments:
"I am forever changed
by this course… I will carry it with me from now
on and use it in my life, work and art."
"Peter is a brilliant
teacher."
"This was probably the
most effective course in creative self-expression I
have ever experienced."
"There is no way to do
justice to this experience via pen and paper. There
isn't a high enough score."
"He is honestly one of
the most truthful and caring teachers I've had. He knows
what he wants to get across, and uses what his students
give him to express his points. He obviously loves what
he does and is well trained and experienced in it. He's
very insightful in terms of reading his students' inhibitions,
hidden energies and blocks."
"Peter Goldfarb's
work has helped me change my life... moving it along
in a direction that is authentic and rewarding. I will
always be grateful to him. I really love him and would
be eager to be a student of anything he would teach."
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Sample Workshop Descriptions:
Actor's Process - Level 1
This intensive in training and performance is an adventure
in theatrical learning and creation.
Participants will awaken and encourage creative intuitive
resources and develop skills they can apply to any performance-related
discipline. Focusing on personal process as basic ground of
awareness, the expression of natural voice, movement, feeling,
free breath and play emerges. In this way, we identify, enact
and integrate the full-blown cast of characters we habitually
create within ourselves.Our work includes performance improvisation,
guided fantasy, Gestalt awareness, dream work, Buddhist space
awareness and theater games.
The workshop typically ends with a public performance based
on material which has originated and evolved during the work
process. Open to participants at any level of theatrical experience.
Actor's Process - Level 2
This workshop continues the journey begun in Level 1. Venturing
further into the unknown territory of spontaneous creation,
we will brave the dangers of no rehearsals, no text, and no
concepts in search of a new Paradigm for Theatre in the Millennium.
Open to participants who have previously worked with Peter
Goldfarb.
Being in Theatre - Explorations in Creative Awareness
The path to creative fulfillment presents many obstacles,
some self-imposed by our conceptual conditioning, some external.
Often, the structures and devices of the techniques we are
taught promote more self-consciousness than consciousness,
and the forms which we are given seem more the product of
artistic ego than authentic models with which we can identify
and resonate.
This workshop, through specific experiential exercises, provides
a means of transcending these obstacles by reconnecting with
the intuition of direct experience. This affirmation of our
unique and vast personal resources can lead to a new paradigm
for creative work .
Our process involves training and practice in various mind-body
and creative disciplines including Buddhist space awareness,
theater games and improvisations, dreamwork, Gestalt awareness,
and guided fantasy.
The workshop is open to actors, non-actors and anyone interested
or involved in the creative process.
Voyage Project
This workshop, through the reenactment of ancient stories
and the exploration of dreams, songs, poetry and personal
experiences, will
address this metaphor for the journey of our lives and of
our time. The Voyage theme is perhaps the most central and
abiding of all dramatic and
literary motifs; it's meanings and definitions myriad, vast,
nearly infinite. The theme is embraced by all the seminal
works of the Eastern
and Western worlds i.e. The Odyssey, the Holy Grail, the Ramayana,
the Arabian Nights and countless others. What these stories
have in common
is that they all reflect aspects of the human condition and
embody aspirations, sufferings and the overcoming of obstacles
that are universally recognized. Whatever the temporal and
cultural permutations may have been, the essential metaphor
has remained unchanged, that of the journey through life with
its confrontation and overcoming of obstacles, it's triumphs
and its transformation.
To schedule a workshop
or intensive with Peter Goldfarb, please contact:
Peter Goldfarb - Email: ActorsProcess@aol.com
2017 10th Street, Suite C
Boulder, CO 80304
Tel: 303-444-3455; Fax: 303-449-2469
Peter Goldfarb -biography
Peter Goldfarb has been active in the training of actors and
directors for more than 30 years. After beginning his career
producing, directing and teaching in the New York theatre,
he was engaged by the NBC television network to create the
award-winning Experiment In Television series for which he
produced and directed over 30 network films, specials and
original dramas. In recognition of his innovative work, he
was awarded First Prize at the Chicago Film Festival for three
years in a row, First Prize at the San Francisco Film Festival,
the George F. Peabody Award and several Emmy nominations including
one for his production of Federico Fellini's first made-for-TV
film, Fellini - A Director's Notebook.
As an actor, he received the 1996 Best Actor Award from Drama-Logue
for the Los Angeles revival of Ronald Harwood's The Dresser,
and a 1997 Helen Hayes Awards nomination for Outstanding Performance
in Jon Maran's Pulitzer Prize nominated Old Wicked Songs
in Washington, D.C. More recently he starred in the landmark
musical "Fiddler On The Roof" and, at New York's
Manhattan Ensemble Theatre in the acclaimed adaptation of
Dostoyevski's "The Idiot".
Throughout his professional career, Mr. Goldfarb has maintained
a strong commitment to the training of actors and directors.
His unique holistic approach involves a synthesis of many
different theatrical and mind/body disciplines.
He has taught at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Los
Angeles and, in New York, at the Actors Studio, the Actors
Process, and the Young Filmmakers Foundation. He is a founding
faculty member and Trustee of Naropa University in Boulder,
Colorado where he is currently developing an MFA Theatre Program
based on the work of Jacques Lecoq. He has both taught and
directed at the National Theatre Conservatory of the Denver
Center for the Performing Arts and the Theatre School at New
York's Circle In The Square. Mr. Goldfarb has been a frequent
Guest Artist at the University of Colorado, Department of
Theatre and Dance, a visiting faculty member at the Playwrights
Horizon Theatre School and at the Summer Institute of the
National Theatre of the Deaf. He is on the Executive Committee
of the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center and is the former President
of the International Theatre Institute/UNESCO Worldwide Training
Committee for which he still travels the globe teaching and
advising schools, theatres and young professionals. He has
led workshops in London, Paris, Milan, Rome, Bucharest, Sinaia,
Bratislava, Havana and Kathmandu. In the summer of 2000 he
helped found the International Shakespeare Summer Academy
in Scarborough, England where he directed "Macbeth Moments"
which subsequently played at the Edinburgh Festival. In 2001
he created The Voyage Project for the Sibiu International
Theatre Festival in Romania and Mittelfest in Italy (click
here for Voyage Project).
Educated at the University of London, the University of Florence,
the Interlochen Center for the Arts, and the University of
Michigan, where he graduated with honors in theatre, Mr. Goldfarb
subsequently did graduate work at the UCLA Film School and
is the recipient of grants from the Rockefeller Foundation
and the Institute Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques.
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