A workshop for inventive players hosted by the Circle Rules Federation.
Where is the artistry in competition?
What do sports accomplish?
How do we use sports…and what for?
Why make sports?
Make Sport is a dynamic group workshop for developing new competitive games and sports. Participants will play and analyze several popular sports, assessing their strengths and weaknesses. What void does each of these games fill? How could they serve a different purpose, engage a different audience, and incorporate a different skill set? Working in various methods with members of the Circle Rules Federation, participants will then augment traditional sports and build new rules that challenge both their competitive and artistic sensibilities. Eventually, small groups will develop their own entirely original sport, and begin testing it with other players in the group. After two days, our hope is to inspire in participants a new approach to problem solving, competition, and the changing rules we all play by.
The teachers of MAKE SPORT
GREGORY MANLEY: The founder of the federation and creator of Circle Rules Football. Raised in Oakland, California, he played Soccer, Basketball, Football, and Theater competitively. Through high school, he co-created several other sports, garnering acclaim only amongst the players. He is an actor with the Mettawee River Theatre Company; a teaching artist with Dance Theater Etcetera, Red Hook Initiative, the Educational Alliance, and a graduate of the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU.
ZAQ LANDSBERG: is a Brooklyn based visual artist. He specializes in large scale, site specific sculptures, absurd objects and potentially treasonous conceptual art projects. A team manager of the first Circle Rules Football League, Zaq has been instrumental in the development of the sport, both competitively and aesthetically. His past projects have included a giant cowering piñata, a 1:1 scale Apache Assault helicopter made of cardboard and a semi-autonomous nation called Zaqistan. He teaches every summer at the BEAM camp in New Hampshire He holds a BFA from NYU.
SCOTT RIEHS: Scott Riehs: An actor/film maker originally from Philadelphia, Scott graduated from the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU's Tisch School of the arts with a B.FA in Drama. His first feature-length documentary, I Found God in China (shot on location in Southern China in 2008), will premiere in New York City later this year, and he is currently in pre-production for a narrative feature film to be shot in Brooklyn this fall. By day, Scott does documentary work and video editing in the Communications department at the Ford Foundation. By night, he is a writer, director, and composer. Scott has been involved with Circle Rules Football since its conception, and serves now as the Federation's Documentarian and Deputy Commissioner.
ANDREW BUTLER: a theatre artist, actor, and singer-songwriter hailing from the Florida Panhandle. He recently graduated from New York University (at the Experimental Theatre Wing) where he had the good fortune to work with directors Kevin Kuhlke, Tea Alagic, John Jesurun, and Elizabeth Swados. He is a founding member of the sketch comedy group Tenured Faculty. Andrew has been playing CRF for as long as it has existed. He introduced the sport to the Tallahassee region and organized a season of weekly games in Prague.
email: info@circlerulesfederation.com to schedule a MAKE SPORT workshop