The DbD Experience is a 34-hour intensive weekend created and taught by interdisciplinary artist Rachel Rosenthal. Ms. Rosenthal developed the method applied to the DbDX during the 12 years of training people for her Instant Theatre Company active between the 50's and 70's in Los Angeles. "Doing by Doing" is the underlying philosophy of the workshop, providing participants with a thorough hands-on experience covering all aspects of theatrical performance (body, voice, sound, music, movement, lights, sets and costumes), approached through exercises, processes and improvisations of solos, duets and group work. The nuts and bolts aspect of the work is technical and professional.What is played out in the workshop is the eternal dance between the "I" and the "Other", the negotiations of power, the intermingling of passive and active, the focusing and diffusion of attention, the dialogue between "who I am" and, as Rachel puts it, the "givens" of existence.
