Immersive Dance-Theater with morgaine ann de leonardis & guests

This weekly class is an opportunity to hone our performance and devising skills through the languages of movement, text, environment, architecture, improvisation, and interaction. It is a laboratory for experiment and practice for professional performers, students, AND folks who have never done any acting or dancing before.

Under the umbrellas of immersive, site-spesific, dance, and theater morgaine will offer tools, exorcises, and pathways to feed your creativity both as a performer and creator. We will play with skills such as: dancing on/with furniture, working with props, lighting, partnering, gaining audience trust, creating one on one scenes, generating and performing written and spoken text, conversations with audience, generating movement phrases, and more. At the end of each session, we will create brief scenes/scenarios to perform for each other. Giving ourselves the space to try out our ideas and to take performative and creative risks.

PHOTO BY: Dorie Dahlberg

Accessibility

• Please note, the studio is on the second floor, accessed by a staircase only. Regrettably the studios are not wheelchair accessible. These classes will be offered at multiple locations by 2025 at wheelchair accessible venues.

• BSL is available upon request. To request BSL please email morgaine at [email protected]
• Open audio description is in my practice already but can be vamped up upon request by Blind/LV participants.
• Prompts can be written down on large paper.
• Participants are welcome to break, lay, rest, witness and do what you gotta do at any time.
• Water, pillows, and chairs will be available as well as toys for stimulation.
• Masks are welcomed
• Hand sanitizer will be throughout the space
• Everyone will have their boundaries around touch, closeness, and contact respected.

About your instructor

morgaine ann de leonardis is a dyslexic irish-italian-american dance artist working as a choreographer, performer, and accessibility practitioner. morgaine’s dance/theater creations and collaborations range from stage work, site-specific, immersive, and film, often inspired by the physical language, motion, and emotion of everyday life.

morgaine studied and performed with NYC-based immersive and site-specific trailblazers, Third Rail Projects in their Bessie Award Winning show, Then She Fell performing the role of Alice from 2019 - 2020. She has performed as an immersive actor in FX and Hulu’s American Horror Stories’ immersive NYC Shop and has danced with KDV Dance Ensemble (Berlin, Germany), Anna Gichan (New Jersey, USA), Lucy Kerr (NYC & LA, USA). She's collaborated and worked with Bobbie Jene Smith, Or Schreiber, Derrick Belcham, Aaron Emmanuel, and Regina Ippolito. Additionally, morgaine co-facilitates Kinetic Light’s LAB: a virtual and social creative space for disabled artists.

morgaine has been commissioned to make site-specific works for historic hotel lobbies and parks across Manhattan, New Jersey and, newly, a rooftop park in London. She premiered three evening length works: No Place Like Home, a dinner and dance-theater show for an audience of 23, let live: a dance opera on life and death, and Opening Reception a gallery-specific piece.

morgaine currently performs with The Missing Theater Company in Instructions on How To Be Alone (UK) and is slowly and softly working on a UK based immersive creation with collaborator Edward J.C Davies.

https://www.morgainedeleonardis.com/home

IG: morgishborgg

Host or Publisher Red Rose Community Dance-Theater