June 9-13th, 10:00am-1:00pm

3 hours

Full Workshop $90

Drop-In $20

HST included!

Pre-Registration Required! please email us at tolove.in@gmail.com to register

Sarah Bild, a Montreal dance artist and choreographer, has been creating, teaching and performing in Montreal and throughout Canada for the last 25 years. She teaches composition at Lcole de danse contemporaine de Montral and has trained intensively with Ruth Zaporah, founder of Action Theater. Now a certified teacher in the technique, Sarah is the first to teach the practice in Quebec. Ever devoted to the dance form, Sarah is constantly seeking to broaden her perspectives on choreography. In 2013, with artist Susanna Hood, she founded the studio La Pole a creative space fostering research, teaching and collaboration.

Action Theater is a unique form of embodied improvisational theatre. This workshop will introduce the fundamentals of the practice. Through playful and rigorous exercises, which isolate and recombine movement, sound and language, we will broaden our range of improvisational skills in order to become open and creative in the present moment. Always working from a fully embodied state, we will develop spatial awareness and access to our imagination, crafting creative impulses into clear images, stories and dreamscapes. This technique will turn the mind inside out, examine existing habits and open up new possibilities. We will also bring attention to the details of our physical choices, to the quality and range of our vocalizing. We will approach speech and words as physical actions in building narratives. Working in solos, duets, trios and also as an ensemble, the class will begin with physical and vocal warm-ups and will proceed through exercises to end with performance scores.