Workshops

I offer a number of workshops rooted in research-based performance practice. Most workshops are adaptable in duration from 3 hours to 3 days, depending on the context and can be geared toward a range of experiences from community-based interest to conservatory training. Workshops can also be combined for a more comprehensive experience or to engage a range of skills. email for bookings.

Learn the history and varied approaches to solo performance, gain confidence performing alone on stage, build comfortability incorporating abstraction and conceptual work into personal performance material, design an original solo performance
Understand the history between activism and performance, explore the shifting dynamics of using performance in/for contemporary activism, stage an original artistic contribution to a political concern, movement, or organization
Introduction to performance studies, understand how the structure of everyday life--from habits to architecture--teach us how to think, feel, and act, explore the body as a site to rework/relearn the pedagogy of everyday life
Explore the politics and ethics of oral history interview and representing others' stories, understand the oral history process as a performance to strengthen communication and interpretation skills, transform an interview into a compelling performance (exploring a variety of genre)
Understand how practice can function as a form of research, explore how practice might enrich existing research projects/methods, build a practice-based research method for a specific project
Introduction to the foundations of critical performance ethnography, strengthen a connection to the senses in conducting ethnographic research, explore the use of creative practices in the ethnographic process, expand the possibilities of representing ethnographic experience through performance and other aesthetic modes, gain critical awareness of the politics and ethics of conducting ethnographic research and representing others
Excavate the buried and often erased stories embedded within the spaces we move through, interrogate how spaces story our bodies and lives and how, through performance, we can story spaces, use space to draw out and visually stage personal narrative/conceptual performance, create site-responsive performances that reveal or rewrite the politics of space
An introduction to solo or ensemble devised performance, build tools for creating original performance, craft a short original piece