Workshop involving performers in collaborative development of new performance; topics include cross-disciplinary arts, solo performance, language, and movement.

In this course we will explore themes of community, care, and safety beyond systems of harm to co-create a devised interdisciplinary performance. We will gather stories from our lives and the world around us to deepen our inquiry and actively engage these themes. Inspired by this we will create interdisciplinary work (dance, theater, music, poetry, multi-media, etc), experiment with shared power and collaborative process, and help to shift the paradigms that hold systems of harm in place. We will consider our own personal and social identities as they relate to the conversations we are having, shaping our work around practices of equity, belonging, consent, mutual aid, generative conflict, transformative justice, and abolition. We will develop material for performance using practices from Augusto Boal, Teatro Campesino, Tectonic Theater Project’s “Moment Work” methodology, the Viewpoints, Somatic Technique, Improvisational Composition, Emergent Strategy, and other generative practices. We will draw upon stories from our own communities as well as the work of movement guides such as Cara Page, Dean Spade, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Corrina Gould, Patrisse Cullors, Susan Raffo, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha, and Grace Lee Boggs. All students will be part of the creative process through writing, design, choreography, and/or embodied performance, but everyone may choose whether they’d like to be on stage or behind the scenes for the final performance.

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