Performance Workshop + Lab

Name: Performance Workshop + Lab
Start: 2024-05-19T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-05-19T21:00:00-04:00
Location: SolArt Center, 6 Byers St, Staunton

Schedule

Sun May 19 2024 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

SolArt Center, 6 Byers St, Staunton | Staunton, VA

We’re excited to announce the opening of the Performance Lab + Workshop, a series for performers looking to both hone their work and add skills to their toolbox.
The Lab part of the series is open to performers making new and/or innovative work in performance art, dance, choreography, sound, music, film, drag, performance poets, and theater. The Lab was conceptualized in response to a lack of spaces for non-traditional performers to show works in progress in the Shenandoah Valley.
The Workshop segment offers a space to drop into a practice brought by an experienced teacher or trained performer in the areas of dance, movement, voice, public speaking, comedy, and other skills in order to nurture and strengthen performance presence. The Workshop will last roughly 3 hours and participants may want to come prepared to move in loose clothing. The workshop is offered Pay What You Can.
Register to perform by MAY 15TH // express interest in the workshop at www.rachelaustinrachelaustin.com/performancelab.html
Workshop:
Preparing the Bodymind using Butoh and Ecosomatics
"In this short session, I offer a series of movement practices drawn largely from the fields of Butoh dance and ecosomatics. I frame the curated practices as a mode of preparation, in which we cultivate: increased physical capacity, readiness to respond to improvisational stimuli, availability to integrate communications from the nonhuman world, openings in channels of awareness and perception, and a dynamically expanded range of creative embodiment possibilities."
Bio:
As an ecosomatic practitioner, Victoria studies the inherent bonds between human and earth bodies and walks bridges of feeling between inner and outer landscapes. Her work in the fields of ecology/horticulture, therapeutic support, and art-making greatly inform one another. Her artistic career has especially focused on devised theatre, butoh dance, and immersive/experimental/social modes of artmaking. Some documentation of her previous artistic projects, current teaching engagements, and lineage of teachers and styles can be found on the website www.bodymettaspore.com.