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Movement Workshop for Performance

WINTER WORKSHOP for PERFORMERS

Facilitated by Anna YenSunday July 8, 2018

10am – 4pm

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

    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: Sunday July 8, 2018
    Time: 10 am – 4.00pm
    Venue: BrisWest Centre, La Trobe Tce, Paddington, Brisbane. Qld. Australia.Payment: $100 / $90 Early Bird Payment by June 8, 2018.

    Aust Feldenkrais Guild and Vulcana members $95 / $85 Early Bird Payment by June 8, 2018.

    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 Anna Yen BSB: 06 4131 Account Number: 00655275. Please include your last Name and “PlayMoves” with payment.

    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. Anna is the recipient of a Churchill Fellowship, a Matilda Award Commendation for “Chinese Take Away”, a Best Costume Design Matilda Award 2017 and Bank SA Best Circus Physical Theatre Weekly Award 2018 collaboratively with GUSH co-creators for “Monsteria”, and a Churchill Fellowship. She teaches Awareness Through Movement at the Qld Conservatorium of Music, 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 with her play ‘Slow Boat’. Anna has taught PlayMoves in Perth, Townsville, Cairns,

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