For Immediate Release: June 6, 2006
Media Contact: Leah Loftin, EgoPo Productions, 504.495.0964

EgoPo, the dynamic theatre company that has recently found a post-Katrina home in Philadelphia, is offering Acting from the Body: Unleashing the Physical Self, a six-week summer acting intensive. EgoPo is accepting twelve students by audition only. The Philadelphia summer session will be offered July 7 - August 12 at a fee of $600.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP Acting From the Body: Unleashing the Physical Self , a movement-based workshop for actors of all levels and backgrounds, draws on the belief that by listening to the body and following one's physical impulses, the actor will find greater emotional truth in performance. Designed to guide actors toward more vital and dynamic performances, the Viewpoints-based training creates a deep sense of vulnerability and spontaneity in the actor. Led by EgoPo Artistic Director Lane Savadove, one of the country's leading teachers of Viewpoints, classes will be comprised of intensive training sessions two days a week, with an optional third class that will allow acting students to train alongside the acclaimed EgoPo Theatre Company that recently produced the controversial Off-Broadway production of Jean Genet's THE MAIDS X 2 in New York City. "Starkly illuminating.[EgoPo] actors are fearless." - New York Times. Participants must be prepared for physically and emotionally challenging work.

"EgoPo actors exude a clean physical assuredness; it is rare these days to see such belief in the majesty of empty space and silence" - San Francisco Weekly

"EgoPo has created a unique, physical style of performance. While their texts are from theater, their style borrows heavily from dance.if the audience is any indication, they have managed to cross over in both forms." - P-Form, National Performance Art Journal

All students will have the opportunity to audition for EgoPo's Philadelphia and New York season. Acting from the Body: Unleashing the Physical Self is EgoPo's Level One Class and is mandatory for actors wishing to move onto advanced training with the company and status as Associate Company Members.

EgoPo's Summer Acting Intensive Acting from the Body: Unleashing the Physical Self July 7 - August 12 By audition only $600 per session

Auditions will be conducted, by appointment only, the week of June 19 - 25.

Please prepare two contrasting monologues, each no longer than two minutes in length.

For further information about class content and auditions, please contact egopo.ldl@gmail.com (215) 563-9747 www.egopo.org

ABOUT EGOPO EgoPo, the 15-year-old award-winning theatre company most recently located in New Orleans, is committed to producing challenging modernist classics and contemporary epics with innovative approaches that re-enliven them. The EgoPo Company of actors undergo grueling training to create a vocal and physical style of acting that is extremely dynamic, yet remains textually driven. Founded by Artistic Director Lane Savadove, EgoPo has staged over two-dozen productions nationally in New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Chicago, Washington D.C., Internationally in Indonesia and Croatia, and on National Public Radio.

EgoPo, whose name derives from the French psychological concept of "The Physical Self", was born in 1991 as a name for a theater company as well as an acting style. In their work, EgoPo draws on the belief that by listening to the body and following its impulses the actor will find greater emotional truth. EgoPo audiences, in turn, are swept into visceral and electrifying experiences.

ABOUT EGOPO ARTISTIC DIRECTOR LANE SAVADOVE Lane Savadove has been directing and teaching nationally and internationally for over 15 years. Savadove is a Drama League Directing Fellow, a Presidential Fellow, a Shubert Fellow, and is the only director to have been awarded the prestigious Henry Luce Fellowship. He holds his MFA in Directing from Columbia University, his undergraduate degree from Haverford College, and was among the first Americans to have studied with the Berliner Ensemble and Moscow Art Theater at Oxford University. Savadove has worked and trained closely with innovators Judith Malina at The Living Theater, Lee Breuer at Mabou Mines, Ping Chong, and Anne Bogart of SITI Company. Savadove has trained actors professionally and at the undergraduate and graduate level in addition to training the reknowned actors of EgoPo. In addition to teaching dozens of workshops through the country, he has been a Professor of Acting and Directing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, The National University of Indonesia, and was Head of Directing at Loyola University, New Orleans . Lane is considered to be one of the nation's top teachers and developers of Viewpoints technique which he combines with physical training from his work with The Berliner Ensemble, Grotowski methodology, some of the nation's top post-modern dance companies and his extensive study of Asian movement forms.

He has directed productions Internationally, Regionally, Off-Broadway, and on National Public Radio. From 1995-96, he was the Resident Director of the National Cultural Center of Indonesia. In 1991, he founded EgoPo Productions and continues as its Artistic Director. Savadove recently relocated himself and the actors of EgoPo to Philadelphia after losing their theatrical home in New Orleans to Hurricane Katrina. Lane's directing credits include over 35 productions, including close to 20 World Premiers.

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