Playful and welcoming, this workshop aims to help you discover aliveness, ease and connection through improvisation.
You'll explore key exercises from Action Theater™, a physical improvisation training in movement, voice and language. A dynamic pathway for opening the body's imagination, Action Theater™ has been used by actors, dancers, musicians, poets and those who want to expand their creative potential.
Throughout the day, we'll explore embodied modes for attending to the present and composing with the words and worlds that we have brought into being.
This event is an taster workshop for a series in the autumn where we shall investigate improvisation skills in performance.
TASTER WORKSHOP: Words and Worlds
Simple somatic exercises allow us to connect with body and breath, opening our awareness and refining our quality of attention. Working in ensemble, duets and solo, we will learn how conjure 'worlds', using rhythm, imagination and our sensory experience. We will explore shifting between contrasting constellations of movement, voice and narrative, each with distinct atmosphere. We wil discover how to let these imaginative worlds saturate our performing body in order to draw our audience in.
ABOUT REBECCA:
Rebecca Mackenzie is a novelist, performer and teacher of Action Theater™ currently residing near Glasgow where she is undertaking a PhD. Her debut novel IN A LAND OF PAPER GODS, was a Red Magazine Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. She teaches improvisation in both the UK and Europe. She has been a visiting tutor on the Royal Holloway Creative Writing MA and The Place Dance BA as well as led innovative trainings for Chisenhale Dance and Independent Dance.
