I'm so excited to bring together Body-Mind Centering and Action Theater with my friend Nicole Bindler! A one-day workshop held at Wildheart Retreat Center in upstate NY. Please spread the word to people in the area (or who might be willing to travel).
Description
This workshop will begin with a Body-Mind Centering warm up that will heighten participants' senses and prepare them for rigorous use of their body and voice in Action Theater.Â
We’ll begin by exploring kinesthetic senses—proprioception (awareness of our position in space), haptic perception (sensing the environment’s texture and contours), interoception (sensation within and around our organs), and equilibrioception (balance)—before examining how our auditory and vocal systems, which develop from the same embryological tissue, form a feedback loop that shapes expression and listening. We’ll then consider how vision moves from sensory input in the eyes to perception in the brain, and how our individual experience, values, and history influence how we see, move, and perform.
Building on the heightened awareness cultivated in the Body-Mind Centering warm up, the second half of the workshop invites participants to continue on the path from sensation to perception, and further out into the imagination – following this awareness to its wildest, most expressive states. Through Action Theater improvisation, we will use the finely-tuned perceptions of body and mind as a springboard for invention. Here, feeling, images, and ideas are embodied, lived, and amplified into movement, vocalization, and words.
