Movement Workshop for Performance

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
• writing exercises that begin from the physical

  is facilitated by performer and Feldenkrais Practitioner Anna Yen. It is inspired by renowned European theatre teacher Monika Pagneux. 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: Monday December 10 – Friday December 14, 2018
  Time: 9.30 am – 1.30 pm
  Venue: BrisWest Centre, La Trobe Tce, Paddington, Brisbane. Qld. Australia.

  Payment: $325 / $275 Early Bird Payment by November 12, 2018

  $310 / $265 Early Bird by Nov 12 – Aust Feldenkrais Guild Members

  Bookings: Pre-booking and prepayment are required for this workshop. Please email annayen@ozemail.com.au to book. If this is your first time at a PlayMoves workshop, please include a brief biog and a short statement on why you are keen to participate. Numbers are limited. Anna’s SMS / Mobile 0417 623 886, landline +(61) 7 3846 1651.Payments: Payment can be made by Direct Deposit – Account Name: Anna Yen BSB: 06 4131 Account Number:00655275. CBA. Please include your name with payment and inform Anna by email that payment has been made.

  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

  Announcement: Insuring Failure – Clown Workshop Dec 11 -13, 2018. 2.30 – 4.30pm. Led by Anna Yen & Jeff Turpin. Requirement: Participation in PlayMoves Dec 10 -14. 2018, and willingness to find pleasure in public failure. Clown Workshop Payment $125 / $95 Early Bird Payment by Nov 12, 2018.

  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 her acclaimed “Chinese Take Away”, a Best Costume Design Matilda Award with GUSH co-creators for “Monsteria”, and a Churchill Fellowship. She teaches Awareness Through Movement at the QCM, is a trainer at Vulcana and was a guest artist for YConnect 2017. Anna performed in “The Serpent’s Table” Sydney Festival, ‘It All Begins With Love”, and “Monsteria” 2017 / 2018. She is short-listed for the 2018 Qld Premier’s Drama Award. Anna has taught PlayMoves in Perth, Townsville, Cairns, Melbourne,

  Wollongong, Maleny Magnetic Island, Bellbrae and Brisbane.www.playmoves.org