Movement Workshop for Performance
Facilitated by Anna Yen
December 12 -16, 2022
9.30am – 1.30 pm each day
VULCANA MOVEMENT STUDIO
400-420 Lytton Road, Morningside. Brisbane, QLD.
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, invite an organic sense of movement with more ease, and to explore options.
* rhythm as a foundation for creative play
* a beautiful writing exercise that begins from the physical

Playmoves is facilitated by performer and Feldenkrais Practitioner, Anna Yen. It is inspired by the work of 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 12 – Friday December 16, 2022
Time: 9.30 am – 1.30 pm (includes a morning tea /snack break)
Venue:. VULCANA MOVEMENT STUDIO, 400-420 Lytton Road, Morningside. Brisbane, QLD.
Payment: $320 / $295 Early Bird if paid by November 20, 2022. 10% discount for members of MEAA Equity, Aust Feldenkrais Guild, Vulcana Circus. 1 discount per person.
Bookings: Pre-booking and prepayment are required for this workshop. Email annayen@ozemail.com.au to book. If this is your first time at a PlayMoves workshop, please email a brief biog and a short statement on why you are keen to participate. Anna’s mobile: 0417 623 886 if you have questions.
Payments: Direct Deposit to Anna Yen BSB: 06 4131 Account Number: 00655275. 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
Anna Yen is a performer, theatre maker, and Feldenkrais Method ® practitioner. Her work spans theatre, contemporary circus, physical theatre, and film. She teaches in communities, companies, schools, universities, festivals and privately. Anna is the recipient of 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 Qld Conservatorium of Music and is a trainer at Vulcana Circus. Anna performed in Baran Theatre’s “Tower of Babel” Brisbane, debase’s “Concerto for Presto and Harmony” at the 2019 Shanghai International Arts Festival, CAAP / Griffin “Monsteria” 2017 / 2018. Her play “Slow Boat” is premiering in Brisbane in 2022. Anna teaches PlayMoves widely in
Australia. http://www.playmoves.org