TRAINING with The Hinterlands

Training is an essential element of our creative process: it’s a platform for creating work and a provocation towards the unknown. Its’s a way to collaborate across disciplines, and a way to engage with the world in an imaginative way. Rooted in a mix of lineages and practices, this ongoing physical and vocal training dilates the presence, energy, and awareness of the performer and builds the expressive capacities of the ensemble for each project. We regularly share our training practice through residencies, workshops, apprenticeships, and monthly participatory training sessions. Our next training series focuses on physical approaches to creating a character.

This four-day 10-hour workshop taught by Hinterlands Co-Director Liza Bielby introduces participants to a variety of physical strategies for creating dynamic and engaging characters for stage, walk-around, or other performance projects. Explorations begin with the possibilities of one’s own body - developing vocabulary for using the body and voice - and move through object manipulation/puppetry, larger-than-life figures, mask performance and the clownesque. [Drop-in IS allowed but sessions will build off each other and you’ll get the most out of coming to all four sessions.]

Feb 10, 11, 12, 13 evenings 6:30-9pm

Entire workshop: $0-$250 (sliding scale based on economic need and geography); Per session: $0-$65 (sliding scale based on economic need and geography). RSVP (and/or send questions) to info at thehinterlands dot org - slots are limited.