This year we are pleased to have Marianne Kubik as our Movement Coach. MARIANNE KUBIK is a theatre movement artist and educator interested in storytelling through the human body and its relationship to the inanimate world. While she often works on published scripts as director, fight director, or movement and dance choreographer – from the outrageously physical Scapin, Big Love, and Wintertime to the classics As you Like It and Private Lives – Marianne’s main interest lies in the creation of original movement-theater works. She has developed over thirty such projects, performing in such venues as the Fox Theatre (KS), Construction Company (NYC), Dragon’s Egg (CT), Boston Center for the Arts (MA) and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.Thematically, Marianne is interested in women’s issues. Practically, she is interested in the dramatic application of Meyerhold’s biomechanics, which she studied at GITIS in Moscow. Her chapter on the subject can be found in the book Movement for Actors, and she most recently shared her work in biomechanics through the International University in Slovenia and the Accademia Dell’Arte in Italy. |
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| It was while she was a guest instructor for the University of Connecticut’s MFA programs in Puppetry and Acting that Marianne was re-introduced to the world of puppet arts and its connection to both biomechanics and mask work. From there she found her way to the O’Neill Puppetry Conference, developing an Emerging Artist project with Kathleen Baum entitled The Forgetting River, which explored the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice from a feminine perspective. Marianne is currently seeking a venue to produce a full-length version of this project.
An Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, Marianne heads the movement component of the MFA in Acting program in the Department of Drama. There she teaches a three-year sequence of skills-based courses in biomechanics, mask work, Laban, stage combat, period movement, dance styles and actor-driven works. Previously she was on the faculty of the University of Kansas, Boston University, and Emerson College. Marianne holds a BA and MA in Drama from Tufts University, and an MFA in Theatre Education and Movement from Boston University College of Fine Arts. She is an Advanced Actor Combatant in eight weapons recognized by the Society of American Fight Directors, and she is a silver-level ballroom dancer in her spare time. |