Facilitated by Anna Yen

This workshop is for performers, actors, singers, circus performers, clowns, musicians, dancers, performance devisors, directors and drama teachers.

The program includes:

• games to invite our playfulness and the pleasure to be on stage
• performance exercises to explore what it means “to be present” and in “complicity” with other performers
• movement sequences from the Feldenkrais Method designed to heighten the perception of one’s self-use, rediscover an organic sense of movement with more ease and less tension, and discover options.
• rhythm as a foundation for creative play
• a beautiful writing exercise that begins from the physical

PlayMoves is facilitated by theatre-maker, performer and Feldenkrais Method practitioner Anna Yen.  Our quest is to awaken the performer, inviting the attentive and joyful performing physical presence that marries risk with vulnerability and self-confidence with authenticity.

Dates:  July  6 – 7, 2019

Time:    10 am – 4.00pm

Venue:  BrisWest Centre,  La Trobe Tce, Paddington, Brisbane. Qld. Australia.

Payment:  $190 / $170 Early Bird Payment by June 8, 2019.

Bookings: Pre-booking and prepayment are required for this workshop. Email  anna@playmoves.org to book.

If this is your first time at a PlayMoves workshop, please include a brief biog and short statement on why you are keen to participate. Numbers are limited.  Enquiries: Anna 0417 623 886, (07) 3846 1651.

Payments: Payment can be made by Direct Deposit – Account Name: Anna Yen BSB: 06 4131 Account Number: 00655275.  Please include your last Name and ‘PlayMoves’ with payment.

Comments from PlayMoves for Performers participants:

“This has been the most awakening and inspiring workshop I have attended in a while. Really wonderful.” Actor

“I feel as though I’ve been woken up – opened to new ways of being and reminded of others I’d forgotten.” Musician

“Extremely valuable. Workshops like this one help to reaffirm one’s creativity.”  Actor

Anna Yen is a performer, theatre maker, and Feldenkrais Method ® practitioner. Her work spans theatre, contemporary circus, physical theatre, and film. Anna is the recipient of a Churchill Fellowship, a Matilda Award Commendation for solo show “Chinese Take Away”, a Best Costume Design Matilda Award collaboratively with GUSH co-creators for “Monsteria”. She teaches Awareness Through Movement at the Qld Conservatorium of Music, is a trainer at Vulcana and was a guest artist for YConnect. Anna performed in “The Serpent’s Table” Sydney Festival, ‘It All Begins With Love” and “Monsteria”.  She was a Finalist for the 2018 Qld Premier’s Drama Award with her play ‘Slow Boat’.www.playmoves.org