Workshop: Physical Approaches to Character Creation

Description
In a physical character workshop, we'll spend some time training various parts of the body, working on strengthening awareness of the various body parts and their movement capabilities. This work can also include image work, expanding movement vocabulary by using the imagination. We then move on to building a character by placing the character's dominant energy in a specific area of the body, and trying out different images to find a character's tempo, rhythm, shape, and voice.

Who
Johanna MacDonald is a professional actor, dancer and performance artist, originally from Canada and living and working in Helsinki. Most of her stage experience is from physical theatre, butoh dance, mask and commedia dell' Arte, and improvised/devised theatre. She runs workshops on different physical approaches to theatre, all of which basically work on the performer's awareness of his or her own body, and developing the freedom to improvise without tension.

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