Performance/Creation Workshop

with Jacob Zimmer

3 Sundays 1pm-4pm

at Hub 14

http://www.smallwoodenshoe.org/workshops

Sunday February 1

Sunday February 15

Sunday March 8

$250 or

Pay what you can

Improvising and creating for performers with bodies.

Finding source material, creating material, Anne Bogart's Viewpoints, desire, charm, microphone technique and other things that matter on stage.

Working on presence, directness and clarity, this workshop will combine performance and creation techniques to make us better collaborators and performers.

We will work on creating physical material and we will work on avoiding the dreaded zombie eyes or tunnel vision.

Well work on having fun while making surprising choices and playing well with others.

Well work with Anne Bogarts Viewpoints, Laban States and Efforts, Jonathan Burrows proposals and a mix of other tricks and vocabularies.

Integrating Viewpoints and other strategies for working, we'll develop improvisation and composition awareness, bringing more ease and articulation in developing new work or staging scripted material.

Great for people with or without previous Viewpoints experience, I will share from my experience training with the SITI company and others, along with values and practices of my work with Small Wooden Shoe, Dancemakers and Public Recordings.

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Jacob Zimmer is a director, writer, dramaturge and performer who has shown work across the country. Jacob studied theatre at Simon Fraser Universitys School for the Contemporary Arts; interned with The Wooster Group and studied Viewpoints, Suzuki and Composition with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company. He has taught at Viewpoints and Composition with Small Wooden Shoe and Dancemakers for over 8 years, slowly mixing in stragtegies from contemporary dance and workshops including influential creation workshops with Jonathon Burrows in Vienna and Toronto.

As the founding director of Small Wooden Shoe he has been independantly producing and creating work through collaboration and inprovisation for over 10 years. Highlights include Dedicated to the Revolutions Buddies in Bad Times, High Performance Rodeo, Super Nova, Magnetic North, Perhaps in a Hundred Years Hub 14, Summerworks, OFFTA, Life of Galileo for Tracy Wright, Upper Toronto and Antigone Dead People.