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Ruth Zaporah's work has established her as one of the San Francisco Bay Area's pre-eminent solo performers. She is a master of improvisational performance, a master of dramatic action. Her scripts are created in the moment-to-moment process of performance, never to be repeated.
Zaporah is a dancer, an actress, a mime. She is a performer who can transform her being into characters of great variety. These characters have extra-ordinary, archetypal dimensions, illuminated by her unique use of language, gesture and her freedom of mind. She dances and sounds, creating environments and moods. Zaporah is funny; she's moving; she's entertaining. Zaporah is a teacher of these particular skills of performing, which she calls ACTION THEATER. She introduces students to the multitude of characters and variety of minds which reside in their bodies. Simultaneously, she teaches the tools of form and process, so that expressions can be constructed into aesthetic and powerful design creating theater. Ruth's trainings appeal to people of all vocation. The goals of her trainings depend on each student's goals and ambitions. Trained actors learn, or re-learn, how to act from their bodies, to act from the present. Dancers learn to fill their motion with feeling and character. For those and others, Ruth's training awakens spontaneity, present awareness, and a sense of play. For her audience and students alike, Zaporah's theater offers a lesson by example: Every action becomes exciting the moment we pay it our undivided attention. |
Ruth Zaporah