Alexander teacher, interdisciplinary artist, and Yale faculty member, Fabio Tavares, and Michael Chekhov teacher and artistic director of the Chekhov Studio NYC, Bethany Caputo, join The Actors Center’s Resident Company in May for a series of artist development workshops focusing on movement, psychophysical approaches to acting, and freeing the body.
Fabio Tavares (he/him) is a Brazilian artist who’s been obsessed with the human body in action from a very young age. He started off as a competitive gymnast before running away to join the circus at the age of 15 where he got his first professional job as an acrobat. Fabio moved to New York in 1999 where he’s been dancing, teaching and making art since.
He has collaborated and performed with Yvonne Meyer, chameckilerner, Miguel Gutierrez, Fisherspooner, Noemie Lafrance, Luis Lara Malvacías, Jeniffer Monson, Circus Amok, John Heginbotham, Laurie Anderson,The Dazzle Dancers, The Daisy Spurs, Stanley Love, Anna Kohler, Anne Bogart and the acclaimed SITI Company. Fabio has danced with Elizabeth STREB and her extreme-action company for 14 years where he served as the Associate Artistic Director for a decade. Fabio’s one man show The Ex-Body based on the text “The Hamletmachine” by Henier Müller has been performed in Brazil, Europe and the US since 2010.
Fabio is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher , a certified Klein Technique™ teacher, and a Certified Zero Balancing practitioner. He has taught at PACE University 2014-2017. He’s currently a faculty member at Movement Research, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and The Juilliard School. Mr. Tavares maintains a busy practicing teaching both in the US and abroad. For more info please go to healthandpoise.com.
Bethany Caputo studied at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1997 where she was introduced to the Chekhov Technique. She now teaches the work for the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA), the Michael Chekhov School of Acting, Terry Knickerbocker Studios, The New York Drama Center, The New School, and a Chekhov Workshop in the grad program at Tisch SOA. Bethany has taught internationally at the University of the Arts in Zurich, Shanghai Theatre Academy in China, Victoria College of the Arts in Australia, and the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney. Bethany was an actor in the Master Classes DVD series produced by MICHA and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Bethany is now the Artistic Director of Chekhov Studio NYC, chekhovstudionyc.com
