Tickets will also be available at the door, but be forewarned, at our last debut at Dance Place, we sold out and had to turn people away– family members included!
We’ll be holding a silent auction that begins an hour before each show, containing fun things like gift cards to area restaurants, makeup consultations, travelling magicians, and even quirky artwork! Refreshments will also be available. Following the show, there will be a short preview dance from Deviated Theatre’s second original work, “LORE: A Mystery Awaits,” with which I am also involved, and is world-premiering in late April at Dance Place.
For those of you that missed it in January, it returns this weekend only and will then be touring out of the DC/MD/VA area until… who knows!
In addition, the run of Ma Lien and the Magic Paintbrush continues Saturdays at 2pm at the Maryland Ensemble Theatre
in Frederick. This past weekend, Reiner Prochaska filmed the show and some extra footage and whipped up a nice little trailer! Watch it below:
Aside from performing, I am currently enrolled in Dody DiSanto’s Neutral Mask Comprehensive classes at The Center in Tenleytown.
I’m only on class #2, but I highly recommend it to any actor who wants to focus on communicating with and becoming more aware of with their bodies.
The first six months of 2009 are all lined up for me and I’m happy to say that my hard work is really paying off!
As I previously posted, my next show is “Aspiro” with Deviated Theatre. We have been rehearsing for the past month and I also accepted an offer from them for their brand-new original show in April: “LORE,” which is playing at Dance Place in DC. Working in shows without dialogue have pushed me to be more specific not only in my character body, but with the actions I take as the character. I’m also working at keeping the physicality of my character in each show dissimilar, so I’m not playing the same character.
Rehearsals for Ma Lien and the Magic Paintbrush with Maryland Ensemble Theatre is fast approaching. We don’t begin until January, but I have been anticipating this show since I was cast back in September. I just heard from the director today and am eager about getting started.
My most recent casting has been for the Maryland Shakespeare Festival’s “Shakespeare Alive!” tour. The cast gets to tour middle schools in Maryland, performing a short “Best Of” Shakespeare presentation to get the kids interested, followed up by workshops dealing with Shakespearian monologues and scenework. I begin in February and wrap in June.
So visually:
Jan 12 – Ma Lien at MET begins rehearsals Jan 23 – Aspiro runs for a weekend at Clarice Smith Feb –Shakespeare Alive! begins rehearsals and training Feb 14 – Ma Lien opens at MET in Frederick March – Shakespeare Alive! begins touring March 7 – Aspiro runs for a weekend at American Dance Institute April 4 – Ma Lien closes at MET in Frederick April 25 – LORE runs for a weekend at Dance Place June 2 – Shakespeare Alive! tour wraps up
…Frankly, I’ll probably reward myself in the summer by taking a week’s vacation out of town, as I’ll be just too busy to skip town until then!
Also, Deviated Theatre has created a new way to fundraise via the internet. I’ll post more information about that on here once I set up the system for myself.
Vanessa Strickland 