New York Neo-Classical Ensemble - The idea of a company or an ensemble is a lot more...

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We're just beginning production on our 2010 season: AS YOU LIKE IT and ROMEO AND JULIET/IMPROVISED.

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"Positive action means that the actor/character focuses on the success of the enterprise rather than allowing the fear of failure to enter the mind or consciousness – every character plays to win at every moment....

The inclination of creativity – both on stage and in life – is to celebrate and to praise life and existence.....

With positive action, the characters hang on not only to the hope but also to the belief that they will get what they want. When they fail to achieve their goals, the effect will be psychologically and emotionally devastating; when they achieve their goals, the effect will be miraculous, exhilarating, and transporting."

- Louis Scheeder, Neo-Classical Training, Training of the American Actor.

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The idea of a company or an ensemble is a lot more complicated than saying, “Okay, we’re going to be the kind of theater that’s made by ensembles.” It’s interpersonally complicated and has been for us. I think very few small groups like ours are a set group of people who continue to make work together. There are some. But our company has gone through probably four or five distinct constellations of people. There have been four or five people who’ve been there the whole time and always work on all the shows. But I think it’s been good to stay loose. Sometimes people confuse the desire to make ensemble work with the desire to keep an exact grouping of people in an exact configuration for years and years and years. The work is made well when you’re making it with a group of people who all want to be right there at that exact moment.

— Talking to John Collins of Elevator Repair Service « Culturebot

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