Friday, November 20, 2009; 07:30PM - 10:00PM
Presented by Robert Bosnak and Janet Sonenberg
Over the last 15 years, Jungian analyst Robert Bosnak and Professor Janet Sonenberg, Chair of Music and Theater at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have developed a dream-based method of working with actors and other artists, which has been shown to be effective in stimulating the creative process. This strategy has been used as a rehearsal technique in some of the world's premier theater companies, such as the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, England.
This presentation will be useful to anyone who wants to transform their performance into a highly differentiated organic interplay of conscious intentions and unconscious undercurrents, catalyzing profound embodied responses in their acting and art, and in the audience's reception of their work.
Course Objectives:
- Identify techniques for working with dreams
- Describe dream based methods for working with the creative process
- Identify conscious intentions and unconscious undercurrents that affect the creative process
Robert Bosnak is a Dutch Jungian psychoanalyst and diplomate of the C.G. Jung Institute, who trained in Zurich, Switzerland from 1971 to 1977. He has pioneered a radical new method of dreamwork that focuses on Jung?s technique of active imagination and his studies of alchemy. He is the author of A Little Course in Dreams, which has been translated into 12 languages.
Janet Sonenberg is Professor of Theater at MIT. A stage director who has also worked in television and film, she is the author of The Actor Speaks: Twenty Actors Talk about Process and Technique and Dreamwork for Actors.
