Deirdre Morris
Devising Performance From the Inside Out

Participants create a “script/score” – a composition combining physical and textual choreography – based on a personal story, leading to a solo performance presented at the final session.

During the workshop, participants will learn movement and improvisational techniques, as well as scoring, sounding, and writing techniques like Butoh, Mary Overlie’s Six Viewpoints, The Artist’s Way and Exercises for Rebel Artists. That techniques help build a versatile performative toolbox as well as getting to know what works best for oneself.

Emphasis is placed on crafting a genuine, engaging performance that feels good to you: a choreography of shared feeling. Participants learn how to give and receive feedback to support each other in building a performance that feels authentic and effective.

Each session begins with focused training in various modalities, followed by creating scripts/scores and performance materials and eventually into rehearsing the solo.