WORKSHOPS OFFERED [In Current rotation]

Dare to Devise is an exploration of devised theatre for ensemble-based projects and productions. This workshop journeys from a single creative impulse/interest/topic/text to shaping a collective web of narratives from multiple perspectives. “Devising” is a process in which the creative team develops a show collaboratively from scratch. This method of theatre-making in which the script or physical performance score originates from the collaborative, often improvisatory, work of an individual or ensemble.

In this exploration, participants engage their artistic engines through physical, vocal, and improvisational structures to highlight topics centered on constructive dialogue, cultural enrichment, and methods of change/conflict resolution in their community or just for simple ensemble building! This work brings people together to listen, discover, and collaborate to create a unified collective narrative in the form of a theatre performance.

Workshop is two-fold: explorative and pedagogical.

Devising a show is an on-going process and this workshop aides in its progression of outlining/building a full production.  While these forms exist independently, Dare to Devise unique structure merges the following practices for building original works of theatre, dramatic poetry, choreography, etc:

• Theatre of the Oppressed (Forum Theatre & Image Theater), 
• Viewpoints Work (Exploration of Space, Time, and Relationship), 
• Laban Movement: Eight Efforts (Physical Theatre) 
• Narrative-based Theatre pedagogy (Reflection, Self and Breath Work)

WORKSHOP SPECS

• 1 to 2-Day intensive or 1 Week Exploration (flexible)

• Performance based

• Ideal for Directors, Actors, Fringe Artists, and Students (6-12, College)
  • (Has been booked @ KCACTF Region IV, Old Dominion University, University of GA,  Georgia Theatre Conference, Virginia Theatre Association Conference, Virginia Stage Company)

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River Stories— I/ am here/ in this room/ with/ all of you, A Sankofa Activity is a ritualistic self-reflection exploration providing a creative and artistic way to build community through the sharing of stories. It sets a foundation for participants to share their own paths (personal and professional), using the metaphor of a river to describe life experiences. 

This immersive workshop culminates by linking the narratives of our experiences together into a river and broadening the art of storytelling through sharing collective history or the stories of movement. 

Derived from the Bonner Curriculum Institute and theatre educator Patty Raun, ‘River Stories’ is designed to help build context and cohesion in a group, as well as help people practice their communication and listening abilities:

• Provides individual participants with opportunities to reflect on their personal histories and how they would use the metaphor of a river to describe their lives
• Deepens interpersonal skills, including the ability to reflect, listen, articulate oneself, and develop relationships
• Builds a feeling of collaboration and sharing among the participants as individuals and as members of different programs and communities 

WORKSHOP SPECS

• 1 to 2-Day intensive or 1 Week Exploration (flexible)

•  Participatory based (not performative) ; Facilitator Led

• Ideal for Teambuilding, Community Orgs, and Students (6-12, College)
  • (Has been booked @ Old Dominion University, Virginia Tech, Teens with a Purpose, The InHEIRitance Project)

For booking or general inquiries, click here

What is your story? Flying Solo is an interactive workshop that focuses on the creation of narrative-based solo performance. Using your own life experiences, Flying Solo provides artists with various exercises, concepts, and explorations in Characterization,  Time, Space, Memory, and Senses, and Solo Performance Pedagogy culminating in preparing their own one-person show. 

Workshop is two-fold: explorative and pedagogical.

Developing a solo performance is an on-going process and this workshop aides in its progression. You do not have to be actor to participate in this workshop! While these forms exist independently, Flying Solo unique structure merges these methods to achieve the following objectives:

• Focus on the individual in finding a subject matter that motivates and sustains them.
• Develop the physical, vocal and character-transformation skills necessary to sustain a dynamic solo performance onstage.
• Explore exercises in character development, improvisation, narratives, oral history.

WORKSHOP SPECS

• 2-Day intensive or 1 Week Exploration (flexible)

• Performance based

• Ideal for Actors, Fringe Artists, and Students (9-12, College)
  • (Has been booked @ Old Dominion University, University of GA, Asheville Fringe, WTF Fringe Festival, Georgia Theatre Conference, Virginia Theatre Association Conference)

For booking or general inquiries, click here

Resilient Stillness—A performative exploration/tool about Stillness and Togetherness blends each participant’s physical embodiment of embracing the theme of “resilience and resistance” during this COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. 

The workshop  is a collaborative tool devised from Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed applied theatre technique ‘Image Theatre’ in which still images are used to explore abstract concepts, such as relationships and emotions, as well as realistic situations. As a tool of expression, the arts can be a place to not only be entertained but influenced, challenged—but provide a forum for catharsis and empathy.  

Ranging from a number of topics and issues, Resilient Stillness is a guided (facilitator-led) exploration, inspiring all participants to look at stillness as more than confinement or a method of hiding, but as an opportunity to ground and encourage ourselves in the basic gifts of the current: family, friends, life, health, quality time, etc. As the title suggests, that even in these crucial moments, we must ‘still’ find moments of celebration and expression.  

WORKSHOP SPECS

• 1  or 2 Day intensive (flexible)

•  Participatory based (novice performative) 

• Ideal for Teambuilding, Community Orgs, Actors, and Students (6-12, College)
  • (Has been booked @ KCACTF Region IV, Old Dominion University, Virginia Tech, Teens with a Purpose, SAMLA)

For booking or general inquiries, click here