Events

Saturday, October 22, 2011 (7)

Oct 22, 2011
September 14, 2011
Wednesday
September 26, 2011
Monday

  • Act American

  • Sep 26, 2011 at 3:00pm to Nov 5, 2011 at 6:00pm
  • Location: Midtown West
  • Description: This 10 session acting workshop incorporates voice work, physical improvisation and scene study. In keeping with our mission to promote international theatre by living artists, we will draw on texts by contemporary playwrights from around the world. Students will have the choice to work on  American texts or translate their scene or monologue into English from a native language.  The class will include regular visits to international theatre events followed by discussion.  The course will culminate in a performance for theater professionals and friends.  We seek to create a diverse class that includes many different countries and languages. Our ideal student has a deep curiosity about cutting-edge international theater, a love of play, a passion for understanding the human experience and an ensemble spirit.  Limited to 20.

    Teacher: Manisha Snoyer, director Into This City International Acting School
  • Created by: Manisha Snoyer - Actress/Teacher
September 27, 2011
Tuesday

  • Atelier Francophone

  • Sep 27, 2011 at 3:00pm to Dec 6, 2011 at 2:00pm
  • Location: Midtown West
  • Description: L'atelier Francophone est un cours de théâtre proposant des exercices sur l'imagination, le corps et la voix afin d’élaborerun jeu créatif et "réel". Nourrir ce jeu, c’est mettre à contribution la vie intérieure de l'acteur, explorer la richesse et le potentiel de sa propre individualité, et découvrir le lien harmonique qui l’unit à son partenaire.  

    Le cours intègre des méthodes diverses d'apprentissage du jeu (Meisner, Stanislavski, Chekhov, etc.) pour que l'acteur puisse découvrir les outils les plus utiles à son répertoire.

    L'accent est mis sur le travail en groupe. L'intérêt est de créer une troupe d'acteurs composée d’individus qui apprécient et essaient tout autant de nourrir le travail de la compagnie entière que d’enrichir leur propre savoir-faire.  

    Ce semestre, nous travaillerons sur des scènes diverses écrites par des auteurs contemporains francophones.
  • Created by: Manisha Snoyer - Actress/Teacher
October 6, 2011
Thursday

  • The Women on the 6th Floor

  • Oct 6, 2011 to Oct 28, 2011
  • Location: Paris Theatre
  • Description: Paris, 1960. Jean-Louis (Fabrice Luchini, Potiche) lives a bourgeois existence absorbed in his work, cohabitating with his neurotic socialite wife Suzanne (Sandrine Kiberlain, Mademoiselle Chambon) while their children are away at boarding school. The couple’s world is turned upside-down when they hire a Spanish maid Maria (Argentinean-born actress Natalia Verbeke) through whom Jean-Louis is introduced to an alternative reality just a few floors up on the building’s sixth floor, the servants’ quarters. There, Jean-Louis befriends a group of sassy Spanish maids (Pedro Almodovar regular Carmen Maura, Lola Duenas, Berta Ojea, Nuria Sole, Concha Calan), refugees of the Franco regime, who teach him there’s more to life than stocks and bonds, and whose influence on the house will ultimately transform everyone’s life.
  • Created by: Aimee Morris
October 7, 2011
Friday

  • Nick van Woert: Terra Amata

  • Oct 7, 2011 at 7:00am to Oct 29, 2011 at 2:00pm
  • Location: French Institute Alliance Francaise
  • Description:

    In Nick van Woert: Terra Amata, an exhibition of new works, Brooklyn-based sculptor Nick van Woert borrows icons from the past, referencing the ideals of former generations, and overlaps them with more familiar contemporary materials.

    The work illustrates a chronology of forms and ideas encompassing everything from classical sculpture, the Donner Party, and Henry David Thoreau, to Ted Kaczynski, Pruitt-Igoe, and 6221 Osage Avenue. The exhibition's title refers to an archaeological site in the South of France where it is believed fire was first used domestically.

    This event is part of Fiction & Non-Fiction, one of Crossing the Line 2011's three curatorial program perspectives.

    Free and open
    to the public

  • Created by: FIAF
October 20, 2011
Thursday

  • Yvonne Constant - Chanteuse

  • Oct 20, 2011 at 5:30pm to Nov 7, 2011 at 2:00pm
  • Location: Metropolitan Room 34 West 22nd Street, NYC 10010 212-206-0440
  • Description:

    Yvonne Constant will be at the Metropolitan Room in New York

    Thursday, October 20th, 2011 at 9:30 PM

    Saturday, October 29th at 9:30 PM

    Wednesday, November 2nd at 7:00 PM

    Monday, November 7th at 7:00 PM

  • Created by: Yvonne Constant
October 22, 2011
Saturday

  • Discussion de livre: "Le racisme expliqué à ma fille" Par Tahar Ben Jelloun

  • Oct 22, 2011 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm
  • Location: Citigroup Building Atrium, NYC
  • Description:

    Un enfant est curieux. Il pose beaucoup de questions et il attend des réponses précises et convaincantes. On ne triche pas avec les questions d'un enfant. C'est en m'accompagnant à une manifestation contre un projet de loi sur l'immigration que ma fille m'a interrogé sur le racisme. Nous avons beaucoup parlé. Les enfants sont mieux placés que quiconque pour comprendre qu'on ne naît pas raciste mais qu'on le devient. Parfois. Ce livre, qui essaie de répondre aux questions de ma fille, s'adresse aux enfants qui n'ont pas encore de préjugés et veulent comprendre. Quant aux adultes qui le liront, j'espère qu'il les aidera à répondre aux questions, plus embarrassantes qu'on ne le croit, de leurs propres enfants. T.B.J.

     

     

    *About the group*

    If you enjoy reading books written by French / francophone authors and would like to discuss them with other lovers of French Fiction in French, this is a group for you. We try to pick books that are both well written and likely to interest the greatest numb

  • Created by: Amy