ISHKODE at Lake Superior State University

November 22 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

2025 Winter Intensive

January 3, 2025 - January 8, 2025

Our method is based on search, not on form.
We offer an adventure with space for both wildness and vulnerability.

The unique, holistic methodology employs the artist’s full potential – emotional, imaginative, physical, vocal – to drive ensemble collaboration, individual exploration, and performance creation. Training Programs are led by the Ensemble, and take place on the Farm and around the world. They include one-day Open Trainings, seasonal Training Intensives, and workshops and residencies off site at universities, collaborating theatres, and other organizations.
Training programs and workshops contain the following elements:

Physical Training
Involving a total body experience including running, partner work, and work with large objects. Although vigorous, the process allows any participant to fully engage.

Improvisation
Which is a combination of individual creation and group work. Improvisation allows participants to build a world of the imagination, and includes work with large objects, music, art, video, and other elements.

Etudes and Presentations
Created from the improvisation and individual work; scenes are created and built using music, art, video, dance, and character to create a unified piece. The goal is to translate training a into devised work process.

Intensives

Open Training

Development of Training

“Training has been the heart of Double Edge’s creative process since its founding by Stacy Klein in 1982. Klein’s deep research into the role of actors’ training in performance creation began with her long term mentorship by Rena Mirecka, founding actor of Grotowski’s Teatr Laboratorium. Since its beginnings, Klein and the Ensemble have rooted Training in physical metaphor creation including partner dialogue, large objects/aerial flight, energy sources, image, actors’ dramaturgy, alongside vocal and music training and attention to necessary skills. The Double Edge Ensemble members, individually and as a whole, have continually developed and evolved training practices over the theatre’s forty-two year history. The unique, holistic methodology engages the artist’s full potential – physical, vocal, emotional, and imaginative – to drive individual exploration, ensemble collaboration, and performance creation.”