Workshops

I'm asked all the time about delivering workshops - I love teaching and I do it all the time. In addition to partner dancing, here are two theatre workshops I offer:

Creative movement for the stage: ages 16+ Trevor Copp brings students through exercises and activities to open up the possibilities for movement onstage, working to completely reimagine how the body can move with meaning. Drawing from A. Boal's work on community based theatre, we use games as a way to bulldoze the fixed ideas about how to move to make way for all the unexpected paths of movement.

Introduction to Mime: ages 12+

If you could make the world that you imagine in your head appear at your hands, what stories could you tell? In this introduction to Mime we'll play with movement quality (drawn from R. Laban's 'The Mastery of Movement') as a way into creating illusion work. Handling the hands, how to walk away without leaving, and yes - even the inevitable 'invisible box' will be shared for your toolkit as an actor, clown, improver, and imaginer.

Reach out to artisticdirector@totteringbiped.ca for details.

Movement for Growth: These are workshops about how stage movement can be a vehicle for self reflection. ages 16+

Session 1: A Meaningful Gesture

Perhaps words aren't the only way to get what is inside of us outside of us.

This workshop uses embodied gesture as a way of clarifying and releasing the thoughts and ideas that we struggle to find words for. Drawing from theatre and dance practise, participants will explore the possibilities of movement qualities and how they articulate our inner states in unexpected ways that work in tandem with therapy.

Session 2: The Meaning of Weight

We all have a picture in our head about the trust exercise where we fall into another's arms. Trusting our weight to other people - and allowing others to trust us with theirs - is a safe and manageable way to explore the often deep seated issues of supporting and being supported that we all struggle to balance well. Drawing from contemporary dance practise, this workshop will centre on the ways we can use our bodies to safely bring awareness to the trust we place in others and ourselves.

Session 3: To Lead and Follow

This is a light hearted workshop to cap off the series which focuses on the tools of leading and following in partner dance connections to explore our sense of control and of relinquishing control. Each of us tends towards leading or following, but any healthy relationship has elements of both. Participants will experience both the release of being led through another person's guidance and leading another person. This experience will shed light on each participant's relationship to leadership and how we can achieve more balance.

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