The training of improvisation is a physical practice that includes increasing range of motion, awakening awareness and clarifying intention. We learn through kinetic feedback with another as well as through exploring different patterns of movement and how all of our senses lead us into our expressions. Preparing to perform requires more than awareness, it asks us to be seen and to see. In this workshop, we will focus on meeting truthfully and directly the unexpected. How do we ready ourselves for performing and who is the being in the body?
Body Mind Centering (r) will be a lens to our investigations and give us physical ground to explore how movement underlies language and helps to fine tune the mechanics of our instruments - our bodies. Weight, mass and breath become movement, become landscape, become story, become question, become idea. We will play with heightening our senses and perceptions, amplifying our awareness to expose more of our interior, making the invisible visible to play with time and space as well as find character, texture and musicality that invites us to widen the scope of the person in the act of creating.
Witnessing, reading, writing, Yoga, contact, the voice, and techniques for acting will be used to further engage and enliven our imaginations and for discovering new challenges and risks as performers.
