What Are You Doing On Stage? - A Performance Workshop for Poetry on Stage

Name: What Are You Doing On Stage? - A Performance Workshop for Poetry on Stage
Start: 2024-07-27T10:45:00+08:00
End: 2024-07-27T13:05:00+08:00
Location: WAPI Office, Level 2, Room 33, Bon Marche Arcade, 8O Barrack Street, Perth, WA, Australia

Schedule

Sat Jul 27 2024 at 10:45 am to 01:05 pm

UTC+08:00

Location

WAPI Office, Level 2, Room 33, Bon Marche Arcade, 8O Barrack Street, Perth, WA, Australia | Perth, WA

If you want to turn your poem into a performance that the audience might remember, then this workshop will help. Performing, rather than just reading, your poem can bring your words, your ideas to life. And just as with most things, there are useful disciplines you can learn.
If you try to learn yoga by stretching limbs at random, you will hurt yourself. If you speak words at random without any thought of how a sentence or a line or a passage is constructed to convey meaning, you will hurt the audience.
There are things that can be easily learnt to help you with this process, and far from diminishing your individuality, they will help you find your voice. No one method of performance works for every poet or every poem, but by exploring how performance is put together you can learn how to make an impact.
This workshop covers stage presence, voice production and the grammar of performance and is suitable for anyone, of any level of skills or experience or physical ability. If you are a beginner you can learn some important steps. And if you think you already know everything you need to know about poetry and performance, here is the news: you don’t. Good performers never stop learning.
Things to bring:
- some poetry, preferably some of your own and some by your favourite writers
- your preferred writing media
an open mind
- wear comfortable clothes (it is preferable if you are willing to work barefoot).
This event takes place on Whadjuk Noongar Land. As such we would like to pay our respects to Elders past, present and future and acknowledge that this is, was and always will be Aboriginal Land.