Ben SpatzPerformer / Teacher ben@urbanresearchtheater.com Ben has over ten years of experience as a director, performer, and leader of theatrical research. He has been leading the Urban Research Theater project for three years and offers workshops in song-based physical performance around New York City. Ben lived in Poland from 2003-2005, as an ensemble performer with the Gardzienice Theater Company and a Fulbright Fellow at the Grotowski Institute. He has also trained with Song of the Goat Theater, Rena Mirecka, Odin Teatret, and the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards. In addition to leading the practice-based performance research of URT, Ben is a doctoral student in theater at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
ben@urbanresearchtheater.com Ben has over ten years of experience as a director, performer, and leader of theatrical research. He has been leading the Urban Research Theater project for three years and offers workshops in song-based physical performance around New York City. Ben lived in Poland from 2003-2005, as an ensemble performer with the Gardzienice Theater Company and a Fulbright Fellow at the Grotowski Institute. He has also trained with Song of the Goat Theater, Rena Mirecka, Odin Teatret, and the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards. In addition to leading the practice-based performance research of URT, Ben is a doctoral student in theater at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Ben has over ten years of experience as a director, performer, and leader of theatrical research. He has been leading the Urban Research Theater project for three years and offers workshops in song-based physical performance around New York City. Ben lived in Poland from 2003-2005, as an ensemble performer with the Gardzienice Theater Company and a Fulbright Fellow at the Grotowski Institute. He has also trained with Song of the Goat Theater, Rena Mirecka, Odin Teatret, and the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards. In addition to leading the practice-based performance research of URT, Ben is a doctoral student in theater at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Michele FarbmanPerformer michele@urbanresearchtheater.com As a 16-year practitioner of siddha shiva and other forms of internal yoga, Michele finds Urban Research Theater's searching through body and voice to be a welcome compliment to yoga's search for the subtle self through meditation and chanting. Michele has lived in New York City for 16 years as a writer, editor and teacher and continues to pursue her narrative and imaginative drive through URT's rigorous practices of physical work and singing.
michele@urbanresearchtheater.com As a 16-year practitioner of siddha shiva and other forms of internal yoga, Michele finds Urban Research Theater's searching through body and voice to be a welcome compliment to yoga's search for the subtle self through meditation and chanting. Michele has lived in New York City for 16 years as a writer, editor and teacher and continues to pursue her narrative and imaginative drive through URT's rigorous practices of physical work and singing.
As a 16-year practitioner of siddha shiva and other forms of internal yoga, Michele finds Urban Research Theater's searching through body and voice to be a welcome compliment to yoga's search for the subtle self through meditation and chanting. Michele has lived in New York City for 16 years as a writer, editor and teacher and continues to pursue her narrative and imaginative drive through URT's rigorous practices of physical work and singing.
URT Poland2004 - 2005 Ania Boratyn, Bartek Bulanda, Kasia Donner, Daniel Jastrzebski, Marek Konopczak, Monika Kuszewska, Iza Mlynarz, Malgorzata Przedzak, Szymon Struzik, Beata Zalewska
