This workshop is for performers, actors, singers, circus performers, clowns, musicians, dancers, performance devisors, directors and drama teachers. Suitable for amateurs and professionals, emerging & experienced.

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 performer, theatre maker and Feldenkrais 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:   Saturday & Sunday 4 – 5 April

Time:     9.30 am – 3.30 pm

Venue:  Jaggan Community Hall, Jaggan Qld 4885. Australia.

Payment:  $216 / $197 Early Bird Payment by Sunday March 1st, 2020

Bookings: Numbers are limited. Book here

Enquiries: Grace Chapman

Comments from PlayMoves 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’s work spans theatre, contemporary circus, physical theatre, and film. Anna is the recipient of a Churchill Fellowship, a Matilda Award Commendation for her acclaimed “Chinese Take Away”, a Best Costume Design Matilda Award with GUSH for “Monsteria” and a Creative Partnerships Award with WMB, Griffith Uni, Lamingtons. She teaches Feldenkrais Method – Awareness Through Movement at the Qld Conservatorium of Music, is a trainer at Vulcana Circus and was a guest artist for YConnect at Yeronga SHS. Anna recently performed in Debase Production’s “Concerto for Harmony and Presto” at the Shanghai International Arts Festival and Baran Theatre’s “Tower of Babel”. Other performances include: “The Serpent’s Table” Sydney Festival; ‘It All Begins With Love” and “Monsteria”. She was an ensemble member of Rock’n’Roll Circus (now Circa). Anna’s new play “Slow Boat” was shortlisted for the 2018 Qld Premier’s Drama Award. Anna has facilitated PlayMoves in Perth, Townsville, Cairns, Melbourne, Wollongong, Maleny, Magnetic Island, Bellbrae and Brisbane. www.playmoves.org