StoryBody: Workshop of the Six Viewpoints

Dates:

• Friday Nov 1st, 6-8 pm Welcome and Special Sound Healing Session!
• Saturday Nov 2nd, 10:30 am -1:30pm The Six Viewpoints: Play and Presence
• Sunday Nov 3rd, 10:30 am -1:30pm Embodied Composition

Storytelling is one of the ultimate forms of liberation practice, helping us understand our truths and learn to be comfortable sitting in the unknowing. Using the improvisation vocabulary called the “Viewpoints” as a portal to discover greater authenticity and self-confidence, this workshop will create a safe and supportive space for you to bravely take risks. Through ensemble theater exercises, journaling, improvisational singing, and composition tasks, we’ll rewire neural pathways to bring us greater joy by staying present.

No experience is necessary, and all experience levels are welcome and encouraged.

Please note this is a movement experience for all bodies. Please let us know your access needs when you register.

Bring a water bottle, a snack, and dress comfortably.

Debórah Eliezer, (she/her) is a mixed-identity Arab Jewish artist, activist, coach, and California fire survivor. Passionate about the power of human transformation, her work focuses on using embodied ensemble skills to disrupt assumptions about art, human values and society. She is the Artistic Director of Aviva Arts, an Associate Artist with Golden Thread and proudly serves on the inaugural MENA Theatermakers Alliance board. Eliezer trained since 1995 with the SITI Co and since 2007 with Mary Overlie, producing SF & NYC Master Viewpoints and Suzuki workshops. Choreographic credits include: Boxcar’s The Speakeasy, foolsFURY’sThe Seeing Place, Port Out, Starboard Home, Monster in the Dark, Big Love, Twelfth Night, and foolsFURY’s adaptation of Don Delillo’s play, Valparaiso. Recent performance work includes The Tutor by Torange Yeghiazarian directed by Sahar Assaf at NCTC and touring her original play, (dis)Place[d], about Iraqi Jews. Eliezer formerly served as the Artistic Director for foolsFURY and Founding Co-Artistic Director of Eclipse Dance Theater. Eliezer holds a B.A. Cum Laude in Drama Cum Laude from SFSU, and is a certified Sound, Voice Music Healing practitioner from CIIS and Kaula Tantra Yoga instructor. www.avivaarts.org

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