Urban Dervish Catalog
Brain Oil Press
Books
SlimeLine Cinema/Soul Patch Films
DVDs and Quicktime Formats
Cheapness Records
CDs (Waves + Mp3s)
NEW
Other Orchestra-Instrumentals (100 mp3s)
Lance Gargoyle-Vocals + Instrumentals (100 mp3s)
Henry Riddle-Instrumentals (100 mp3s)
The Flugnoids-Vocal + Instrumentals (100 mp3s)
Professional Arranger Series-Volume One(100 mp3s)
Professional Arranger Series-Volume Two(100 mp3s)
Professional Arranger Series-Volume Three(100 mp3s)
Lowell House of Improv
The House of Improv is here to study and practice Improvisational Music,
Performance, and digital art and present performances by students and
rep cast in original unique productions. The objective of the House Of Improv
is to study the Art of Performance through improv techniques, original music,
and art, which stress the community involvement of people who would not
normally have the opportunity to be involved in the Theater, Music, Art or the
Performing Arts. Reality Theater and Hybrid Theater will be developed. The
performance company or players may be called The Flugnoids and a theme
developed according to the cast involved to create a melting pot of creativity.
A new era of multi media entertainment. Studies will include: Warm-up exercises,
Action Theater Basics, Theater Games, and what I call the Orchestra of Sounds
(the observation of sound and its textures ). Korg Keyboard Workstations 01wFD,
i-30 and Karma series will be included in the study and performance of the
Performance Company that will develop. All music styles will be utilized including
Classical, Jazz, Rock, Blues, Country, New Age, Electronic, Experimental and
others.The performance Company will develop characters and original script
outlines from exercises, games and studies
Institute For Creative Expression
The Institute was formed to offer quality instruction with sincerity for
a reasonable tuition to the community of the greater Lowell area
and the Merrimack Valley.
Developing a creative atmosphere designed not only for the elite but for the
regular person has never really been accomplished with any genuine lasting
community value or significance - until now, with the Institute for Creative
Expression. The Institute provides quality studies in many areas of creative
interest, from improvisation workshops (including Instant Theater) to study
groups in significant acting techniques (including the Sanford Meisner method).
Our goals is to take the best from the best and making the best of it. Since we
have some of the greatest minds of this century involved with our operation,
we have the luxury of keeping up with the main stream and the independent
currents, and backing production projects that are years ahead of their time.
We invite the participation of anyone who wants the opportunity to be involved
with the world of creative expression in whatever form they find comfortable and
natural. We conduct our programs so that creative development can sprout and
find its expression with the full support of staff and students/participants, and
without fear of rejection or lack of encouragement.
The Institute welcomes anyone unfamiliar with or uncomfortable in conventional
theater, music, art, film, or performance art, who wishes to explore original
user-friendly exercises and techniques that can be practiced and developed
both in a performance art setting, and during ordinary life routines and activities.
We welcome people who are left outside the mainstream culture for whatever
reason and offer instruction for a reduced rate. We find that sometimes the most interesting art is produced by those who for one reason or another are
automatically left outside the culture or who are perceived to have limited
means of expression.
Lenny Hall aka Lance Gargoyle is a self styled improvisaionist in Music + Writing since 1975,
Film since 1986,Theater since 1994 and Art since 1999.His Studio has been open at Western Ave since 2006 Trained in Theater and Improv.Self Taught Writer,Digital Artist,Musician,Artist,Videographer and Performance Artist.Visit on Open Studios at WESTERN AVENUE STUDIOS every first Saturday of the month.Largest Meda collection about Lowell MA including 70 films,3000 original recordings,Stories about Lowell,Paintings and original art for sale and FREE Over 1200 FREE SONGS on GOOGLE PLAY Lance Gargoyle AKA Lenny Hall has been creating and recording his own self styled original music since 1975.With over 2000 songs on CD Baby,over 100,000 downloads during mp3.coms early days,200 videos onyoutube and years of performing his music around Lowell Massachusetts his music covers all genres from Classical toJazz,
Rock,Country and everything in between.He is trained in theater and
improvisation.He operates LOWELL HOUSE OF IMPROV-
BRAIN OIL PRESS-UNITED PROTOTYPES-SLIMELINE CINEMA-
SOUL PATCH FILMS-CHEAPNESS RECORDS &
INNOVATED DIVERSIONSat Studio A101
@ Western Avenue Studios in Lowell MA.since 2006.
Instant Theater
Instant Theater utilizes one's natural abilities while boosting weaker areas
through positive reinforcement, in order to encourage finding the reality of
yourself. Instant Theater is a study that incorporates self-observation and
self-study in a genuine comfortable environment. It increases self-awareness
by stripping away the outer layers of limited thinking, misconceptions, and
social conditioning, to disclose the kernel that lies beneath. It reorganizes
human mentation so that it is more sensitive to things that are there anyway
by intuition, insight, and experience. It can involve spontaneous, modern, visual,abstract, and even orchestral art and performance.
Instant Theater begins with breathing and listening. Then to movement and
sound then to movement and narrative. It is a practical method of performance
study and self expression that involves improvisation techniques developed
from Action Theater and Keith Johnstone combined with a hybrid blend of
original concepts. The study and practice of these revolutionary techniques
make the learning, developing, and discovery process fun and always interesting.Every student and participant will develop at his or her own level adding his or her unique ingredients to the performance soup. Instant Theater can be an oasis of
congenial instruction for those tired or discouraged by ordinary theater, musical or improvisational study, practice or performance.
Instant Theater shakes things up and challenges your imagination. Instant Theater can add dignity of your own presence and enable you to transcend any false culture. It can be studied, developed and practiced in any space, in any environment,alone or with others, and during one’s usual daily routine within any life situation. Instant Theater means polishing life's adventure to produce a higher quality of performance. It expands and strengthens one’s capabilities and possibilities naturally and organically to the point where the ordinary can be exciting. Self-developmental theater and honest human interaction create genuine and authentic performances.
Instant Theater is a technique/practice designed not as a form for self gratification,but as an instrument to stimulate internal centers of perception transcending normal receptivity. Instant Theater is an improvisation method that can be practiced and developed by anyone regardless of lifestyle, education, occupation, vocation, physical, emotional or mental disabilities, experience in the performing arts, or social, cultural, or economic background or conditions.
Instant Theater encourages developing original characters. Interacting and blending with other students will help create dynamics that produce natural and genuine drama and expression and enhanced sensitivity, giving life a fresh spin. Instant Theater may be experimental or it may be conventional. Instant Theater is rejuvenating. Interest, involvement and commitment to the practice of Instant Theater, like any sincere endeavor, can give your life meaning and significance.
Instant Theater can reveal the essence of reality. It is a radical approach to
combining theater, improvisation and music, art and film. Building bridges
between cultures and transcending regional boundaries helps develop a
sense of priorities and belonging to the human community. It is plain to see
how self-absorption and isolation in one’s daily life produces a dearth of
activities that could connect and expand one's identity. Instant Theater brings a shift from the exclusive experience of a separate self to a more balanced and connected self. It permits a deeper experience of reality in its fundamental holistic aspect, for a healthy life with flexibility of consciousness. It shifts the guiding intent from self-centered motivations, allowing things to happen spontaneously to increase one’s knowledge of one’s larger, connected identity.
The creative impulse is something everyone possesses. Instant Theater is
designed to enable students to make discoveries and develop at their own
pace, with the assistance of prescribed exercises given by the instructor
according to their level of interest and commitment to the study. Students
will be encouraged to develop original characters that may be incorporated
and integrated into a current or future productions, exhibitions, or class
exercises. Instant Theater involves teaching students in a way that they
can learn by non-traditional approaches. It illustrates in sometimes exaggerated form the kind of fallacious thinking that prevents more sophisticated uses of the mind, and increases the students’ ability to absorb new or undiscovered levels of creative expression. Instant Theater may relieve self-centered sufferingand convert manic energy into creativity. Intuitive communication unites people through collective innovation and performance.
In Instant Theater the studies are always kept interesting, so the process has
the most momentum and the students remain energized involved. Instant Theater is a study that is practiced during ordinary everyday life activities. Instant Theater is a form of self expression that includes the study of Listening, Sound, Movement,Motion,Narrative, Storytelling, and Improvisational Music are all parts of Instant Theater.Instant Theater can help anyone looking to free up suppressed creative energy, whether they are actors, musicians, artists, or anyone involved or interested in the performing arts. Its a unique and original performance training technique that can be developed and operated by anyone regardless of social or educational
background, or previous level of formal instruction in the arts. For those who
feel crippled in mind and spirit, Instant Theater can take off the hard edges and enhance one’s enjoyment of life’s folly.
Sometimes primal, some times futuristic, Instant Theater is always innovative and inventive, while still operating within its social, study or practice situation. No experience is required. Instant Theater makes your reality more exciting, and helps you recognize the truth about yourself. Instant Theater gets beyond the social masks,to reveal new ideas and methods for discovery.
Shake things up. Challenge your imagination. Make what's important.
Give a voice to people you wouldn't normally hear. Emerge from the
culture of the false. Find the dignity of your own presence.
Volunteers and interns are welcome.
No experience needed - training will be provided.
Help needed: Video Cataloging - Audio Cataloguing - Web Page Maintenance
Lenny Hall has had extensive training in both theater and improvisation
and has been involved with the theater and improvisation for over ten years.
Studying at Southwick Studio for Theater Arts and Expression with Andrea
Southwick, Curt Miller, Craig Foley and other notable teachers from the Boston
and Greater New England Area. He has done everything from scene study and
improvisation to storytelling and acting technique workshops and has appeared
in several summer productions. The following are the most memorable:
My training and experience in both theater and in
improvisation gives me a more complete understanding of the
practice and performance process.
Stage Performances
:Rhimers of Eldridge as Josh Johnson
:Traveling Show as George
:Cementville as Eddie
:Richard the Third as Lord Rivers
:Mad Woman of Chaillot as The Sewerman
:The Dining Room as Charlie and Ben
:The Tempest as Caliban
:The Marriage Proposal as Lomov
Improv Study/Teachers
:Collinge/Pickman 1995
:Mass College of Art 1996
:Keith Johnstone Work Shop 1996
:Marjorie Burren 1996-1998
:Jeannie Lindheim (Clown Workshop) 1997
:Curt Miller (Southwick Studio) 1999
:Sarah Hickler (Action Theater) 1999-present
:Ruth Zaporah (Action Theater) 1998-present
Casting Roles For Future 2017 Productions
:Sidney Hipple :Duke Of Dingy
:Lance Gargoyle :Profeesor Berry
:Tony D'Wonderful :Sargeant Smegman
:Bobby Venus :Doctor Perverto
:Klunky Klipman :The Peeper
:Rufus Bing :The Smegmanettes
:Vito Vaselini :Danny Dupa
:Queen Dingy :
:The Flugnoids-Progressive Community Performance Project
:Pick Scales-Local Jazz Legend
:Riff Tempo-Guitar Wizard
:Crimpy Lee-Publicity Tramp
:Weirdola-Media Hog
:Mick Richards-Media Film/Music Honcho
:Floridia Parsons-Genuine Cultural Supporter
:Russell Sprouts-Newspaper Reporter
:F.U.Maggott - Multi-Media Baron
:Mustard Green - Resident Philosopher
THIS IS ALL THAT IS REQUIRED
Time – Interest – Motivation – Enthusiasm
FOR
Off The Grid Theater - Street Theater with all the edges
All Products,Services and Studies are free
Laughing Dervish
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Hours of Operation
169 Salem St #2