VOICE AND MOVEMENT PLAY LAB: A workshop with Susanna Hood

EXPLORE * PLAY * EXCHANGE

Join Susanna Hood for a voice and movement play lab exploring exercises
drawn from a combination of Ruth Zaporah’s work ‘Action Theater’ and
Stephanie Skura's 'Open Source Forms'.

"The practice of Action Theater incorporates the disciplined exploration
of embodied exercises that lead to increased skills of strong, clear,
spontaneous, and artful communication... addresses and expands the
vocabularies of expression including: movement, vocalization, and speech."
-- Ruth Zaporah

WHO
The workshop is ideal for anyone interested in exploring voice and
movement, whether or not you have previous experience. Wear comfortable
clothing.

WHEN/WHERE
February 20, 10am to 1pm @ Dovercourt House, 2nd floor (805 Dovercourt
Rd., Toronto)
February 27, 2pm to 5pm @ Dovercourt House, 2nd floor (805 Dovercourt Rd.,
Toronto)
March 6, 4pm to 7pm @ Pia Bouman School (6 Noble St., Toronto)
March 13, 4pm to 7pm @ Pia Bouman School (6 Noble St., Toronto)
March 20, 4pm to 7pm @ Pia Bouman School (6 Noble St., Toronto)

REGISTRATION
Workshop costs $30 on a drop-in basis, or $25/session for the full series
($125 total). We appreciate pre-registration for each class, so we can
optimally prepare for your participation. To register or if you have
questions, please contact Angela Rawlings, angela [at] thescream [dot] ca,
416-408-3775.

ABOUT SUSANNA HOOD
Susanna has been teaching and coaching individuals and groups in voice and
movement integration since 1999. She has been studying Action Theatre with
Ruth Zaporah since 2006, and has an ongoing practice based in Ruth’s work
with Montreal-based Sarah Bild, a dancer, choreographer, and certified
Action Theatre teacher. Under the guidance of Stephanie Skura, Susanna is
also currently training to integrate Open Source Forms (OSF) into her
teaching practice. OSR is an 'open source' system, focused on creative
empowerment of the individual, and guided by the philosophy that the
source of creativity and wisdom is available in each of us. OSR is based
on decades of continuing research and practice in movement, improvisation
and performance, and is also inspired by some of the intrinsic ideas and
spirit of Skinner Releasing.

Though the play lab will mainly use Action Theatre and Open Source Forms
exercises as points of entry for play, Susanna will also be drawing on
other modalities such as OSR to facilitate the sessions.