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: peter@petergoldfarb.com
101 West 67th Street, Penthouse 2A
New York, NY 10023
Tel: 212-724-8326; Fax: 212-724-8337
Peter Goldfarb - Biography
Peter Goldfarb has had a long and distinguished career as an educator and trainer of theatre students and professionals around the world. He is a Vice President of the UNESCO International Theatre Institute Training and Education Committee for which he travels the globe teaching, lecturing, conducting seminars and participating in theatre conferences and festivals. Peter has led workshops and master classes at theatre schools and institutions in many countries throughout Europe, Asia, Mexico and South America. He is a founding faculty member and former Trustee of Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, where he established for the first time outside of Paris, a Master of Fine Arts Theatre Program comprised of the complete two year training of the Jacques Lecoq International Theatre School. Peter is an Adjunct Professor and Guest Artist at the University of Colorado and has both taught and directed at the National Theatre Conservatory of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and the Theatre School at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York. He is a former Trustee and Executive Committee member of the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center and a co-founder of the International Shakespeare Summer Academy in England.
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, Peter subsequently did graduate work at the UCLA Film School and is the recipient of grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Institute Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques. Peter is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Italian and teaches in all of those languages.
For additional information and selected writings, please go to the Articles Section and the complete Bio on the Home Page.
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