WORKSHOP: A Brief Introduction to Visual Listening and Creating

One hour Lecture/DemoGive your imagination a whack on the side of the head! Discover concrete ways to get beyond "STUCK" when you are looking for solutions. Learn approaches to think, see and create outside the your usual ‘go to’ places.This workshop deals with creativity at its very core. We’ll look at some simple principles giving you permission to find ideas from untapped and unconventional sources.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Daniel Stein teaches Movement for the Actor and Devising of Original WorksCurator of the Annual PARTICLE COLLIDER FESTIVAL at UCSB After studying in the Professional Actors Training Program at Carnegie-Mellon University, notably with Jewel Walker, Daniel went to Paris, France to study with Etienne Decroux, becoming M. Decroux’s frequent translator. Subsequently making his home in Paris for 20 years, Daniel started his professional career as an actor with the French National Theatre. His solo performances have toured in more than 30 countries, as well as in theatres such as the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center in the United States. The performance of his first solo show, TIMEPIECE, received this review: "Perhaps a handful of times can a critic sit in a theatre and in the space of a mere hour see a performer change the entire course of an established art form, but that is precisely what happened when Daniel Stein opened the Dance Theater Workshops New Mime Series” - Barton Womble, New York Daily News). He has performed and taught master classes throughout the world at institutions such as The Juilliard School of Drama and The Shanghai Theatre Academy. Daniel is a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the United States/Japan Commission, the Pew Charitable Trust…Recent summers have seen him teaching in Sicily, The Danish National School for the Performing Arts, Copenhagen and in Seoul, South Korea.Prior to finding his artistic home at The University of California, Santa Barbara he spent seven years at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island as Head of Movement and Physical Theatre for their MFA Professional Actor Training Program. Prior to that over a decade at Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre in Blue Lake, CA. serving as School Director and core instructor. For more information visit Poeticdynamics.com

SPECIAL OFFER: Register for more than one LA Mime Festival workshop and get a Bundle Discount! When you complete your registration for your first workshop at full price, you'll receive a special promo code good for $20.00 OFF each additional workshop. That's only $10.00 for any additional workshop! (Offer valid only for participants registering for multiple workshops.)

LACC STUDENTS: Students with a valid LACC Student ID access workshops for free!

Host or Publisher LA Mime Festival