For something a little out of the ordinary, check out Fear, a performance of original movement theater. The collaboration between JHU Homewood Arts Program and Towson University's Masters in Fine Arts in Theater Program will be presented Friday, Feb. 13 at 8 p.m at Arellano Theater.
Fear is part of Designer and Director Tatsuya Aoyagi's graduate school final project. As a graduate student at nearby Towson University, Aoyagi and ten other advanced students will present and premiere original pieces inspired from a course entitled "Creative Process of Original Ensemble Theater." Hopkins' course "Voice and Movement for the Stage," taught this spring by Christine Glazier, lecturer in the Writing Seminars and stage director at the Peabody Institute, is similar in topic.
Born in Japan, Aoyagi later received his Bachelor of the Arts Degree from University of Alaska, Anchorage in theater. Besides this Towson project, Aoyagi has been involved in performances at the Kennedy Center in New York, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Baltimore Theater Project.
The basic idea of original movement theater is to principally use movement and physical gestures as text, as opposed to the Western notion of words in a text, as said by Eric Beatty. Beatty is director of Homewood Arts Programs and also served as one of Aoyagi's thesis advisers. Further, he says, that this type of theater is evolved through the cooperation of actors and directors, using tools such as improvisations, exercises and physical games. To see this unique and innovative form of theater, go see the free performance of Fear in Levering. For more information, contact Eric Beatty at (410)-516-0774.
