Workshops available for Centers, Universities, Conferences, and Corporations

WORKSHOPS:

WORKSHOPS DESCRIPTIONS

Zany Performance Art
Writing, Moving, and Sharing into the Wild Unknown

 The Zany Angels Dance Theater Company lead participants through a creative journey, in which we use our voices, tell our stories, find the humor in who we are, go deep, and get Zany. This is a time to mine the depths of your personal mythology to bust through logical thinking into beautiful, unrestrained art making. We will offer manageable, bite-sized, structures in theatre, creative writing, and movement that allow creativity to unfold step by step.  ANYONE CAN DO IT!  Then we share our discoveries in a safe, supportive, and grounded environment held and cultivated by the facilitators. Zany Performance Art is a transformational, heart-based experience that frees the mind and ignites the creative spirit. This workshop can focus on improvisational performance or the making of set performance pieces, depending on the requests and needs of each organization. 

Zany Angels Dance Theatre Company members take you on a journey into the joy and connection of discovering your authentic self through movement, theatre, and writing. They have a gift for creating safety while allowing the ideal environment to take risks, to find and express the voice of your essence. Through simple non-threatening creative structures for the body and the voice, the class unfolds organically so much that when you come to the close of your journey, you will not know how you got there. This class has been created from years and years of study, education, and practice of using the arts for healing and transformation.

Creative Couples
Physical, Emotional, & Creative Practices for Couples Who Want to Be Close

Come explore bite-sized yet in-depth forms that deepen intimacy and promote joyful connection. The overall focus of this workshop is to offer couples ways to communicate and express together in order to bring more closeness and pleasure into the relationship. The balance of embodiment, emotional health, and play will be addressed throughout the day.  No previous experience necessary in art, movement, or co-counseling.  This day is for all levels and couples from all walks of life.  You are welcome to come to this workshop with your partner, or a friend - someone you want to share this time with. 

A Zany Workshop/Performance Residency can be adapted to any time period between 2-14 days.  It can be designed for a variety of settings in which participants explore authenticity, expression, team/community building, and creative development.

Inner Bonding Support Groups

Rythea Lee is a certified Inner Bonding® practitioner with a counseling practice for 14 years. Her groups are an experiential, loving environment for support, sharing, and learning. Inner Bonding® is an emotional and spiritual approach to healing developed by Dr. Margaret Paul and Dr. Erika Chopich.  You will learn an extraordinary and innovative 6-step process that allows you to feel the power of your emotions, dialogue with your spiritual guidance, and develop a healthy adult self. This work is wonderful for gaining a tool that can be practiced for resolution of daily upsets. It is also very helpful for healing trauma, painful relationships, addictions, and depression. In a group setting, the facilitator does some one on one counseling as well as teaching the basic principles.
Read more about this at:   www.innerbonding.com

Authentic Movement

Authentic Movement is an expressive, improvisational movement form developed originally by dance pioneer Mary Starks Whitehouse in the 1950's.  It can be used for personal process, artistic sourcing, and/or contemplative attunement.  Authentic Movement involves at least one eyes-closed mover and one witness, though there can also be many movers and witnesses.  

• Heightens the body senses, perceptions, and awareness
• Opens you to experience: image, memory, character, inner landscape, and visions
• Develops your ability to move with (conscious) and be moved by (subconscious) one's experience
• Helps you source your unique artistic inspiration for movement and voice
• Develops your ability to observe, hold space of greater possibility for, and be compassionate to yourself and another

This practice is used by dancers, choreographers, artists of many disciplines, therapists, students, and spiritual seekers. The practice is often accompanied by time to integrate discoveries through writing, drawing, and sharing.  For students of dance and theatre, this practice is a powerful way to discover and explore ones own movement vocabulary and artistic voice, as well as find seeds for developing material.

Contact Improvisation
Movement Improvisation in contact with others

Different level workshops for this extraordinary form:

• Play and trust
• Moving from center
• Rolling, falling, and going upside down
• Pouring weight from the fluid body
• Support through the bones
• Balance and off-balance
• Tuning the body to gravity and momemtum
• Aerial play
• Changing states
• Perception and Reflex training
• Improvisational/Compositional awareness and games
• Safe fun learning environment

Develop your skills in Contact Improvisation while finding freedom in movement.  Our objectives are learning through movement and letting the body live in its natural state!

The Heart of Empathy Training

Healing Trauma through Inner Bonding® and Body-Mind Centering®
with Rythea Lee and Naomi Sparrow
More information
 

Improv for Organizations
Theatre for Team Building

Develop creativity, expression, and healthy interaction within your team or organization.  These simple, anyone-can-do-it exercises bring about a new culture in the way your team operates – both through a transformative workshop with play, but also in skills and processes that the organization can take with them.  There is a intial interview to assess what your group is looking for and what it wants to get out of this work.