There are many approaches to character and most of them are intellectual and text-based. These approaches are wonderful for understanding your character’s story and empathizing with them, but often they don’t touch on a character’s physicality.

In this workshop we will explore character from the outside in, inspecting the body and defining its architecture while taking time to relax into our choices to allow the actor to live.

Together we will build a physical vocabulary inspired by Laban, Bogart & Landau and a variety of contemporary clown, puppetry and mask teachers.

The majority of this workshop will have you up on your feet, exploring through a series of exercises and prompts. The workshop will begin with a warm-up and will have breaks throughout.

Useful things to know:

• Bring comfortable clothes and layers. 
• The Art Shelter is an off-grid dance studio run by solar power. It is not heated nor does it have air conditioning. The Art Shelter is warm on sunny days but it’s cooler when it’s overcast.
• We have water and a small kitchenette with some coolers to store food, coffee/tea and a microwave to reheat food.