Winter Workshop Week

TWO Exciting Workshops are being offered as part of Winter Workshop Week.

Workshop Week is designed to bring together the students of Theatre Arts and Dance in creativity and collaboration with artists who often blur the lines between performing arts disciplines. They are a great way to gain experience and develop as an artist.

Workshop With Rainpan 43
Performance Artists Trey Lyford and Geoff Sobelle

Monday, January 14: 2pm-4pm
Tuesday, January 15: 2pm-5pm
Thursday, January 17: 2pm-5pm
Friday, January 18: 2pm-5pm

Barker Center 100

Museum of the Self - led by Rainpan 43 artistic directors Trey Lyford and Geoff Sobelle and director of Amnesia Curiosa, Andrew Dawson. This workshop in theatrical creation, inspired by Rainpan 43's performance piece Amnesia Curiosa, will investigate how we relate to our past, and how we carry memory across generations. We will use personal stories as source material, filtered through the dramaturgy of Amnesia Curiosa (medical anomaly, 19th century spiritualism/séance, cabinet of curiosities) to tell stories in arresting and surprising ways. Working with both sculpture/installation and physical theatre, we will find new and unique ways of making the "internal" external.


Workshop with Joe Chvala
Monday, January 14: 9-1pm
Tuesday, January 15: 9-1pm
Wednesday, January 16: 9-1pm
Thursday, January 17: 9-1pm
Friday, January 19: 9-1pm

Barker Center 100

A percussive dance/theater workshop with Flying Foot Forum's artistic director - Joe Chvala. This workshop will use the lives of Loie Fuller and Franz Kafka and Kafka's work "Metamorphosis" as inspiration for a percussive exploration (movement, text, voice) of the artistic transformations these artists created. Participants will concentrate on the contrasts between these two artists and on the connections of their artistic metamorphoses to their personal stories, to the beautiful but ephemeral art nouveau movement, and the inevitable natural decline of the human body.

If you are interested in participating in this free one-week workshop before the start of Spring Semester, please sign up in the Barker OR Rarig Center. Space is very limited; workshop participation and wait-list spots will be confirmed before the winter break.