Description
Memoir & Movement Fall Sessions with Sara Porter: REGISTRATION STILL OPEN
Sara Porter leads participants through a lively series of movement improvisations, writing prompts and vocal explorations to generate various kinds of memoir material geared toward performance. Questions surrounding memory, identity, storytelling, performance and craft are explored through creative work and conversation.
A thoughtful and fun approach to memoir with past participants from across Canada, US and UK, including high school students, professional artists, audience members, seniors circus performers, expressive arts therapists, youth with special needs.
Fall courses are geared toward artists – in any form – with a regular practice.
ONLINE – Monday mornings 10-11am
IN STUDIO – Tuesday afternoons 12:30-2:30pm at IGAC Studio, 180 Shaw St, #103
Register at sara@saraporter.ca
MONDAYS (online 10am-11am) - September 9 - October 28
A gentle, creative wake-up for your week. Sara leads an hour of Memoir & Movement-inspired practice: Each hour-long session includes: dance improvisation, creative writing, conversation about creative process, voice work and poetry.
COST : $200 - $160 (CADA Rate)
Please contact us if payment is a barrier
TUESDAYS (In Studio 12:30pm-2:30pm) - September 10 - October 29th
A deeper dive into building material over several weeks. Each session includes: dance improvisation, creative writing, voice work, poetry, discussion on identity, personal process, and art making.
COST : $288 - $208 (CADA rate)
Please contact us if payment is a barrier.
Testimonials
“A rare, unique opportunity to create privately, yet in company of others. Memoir & Movement is precious time to explore individual body-mind-movement & share it. Joyful movement-dance improvisation, creative writing, and inspiring conversations. I’m grateful!” (actor)
“Working in Memoir & Movement inspired me to rework my contemporary circus solo Twist of Fate (2008). Sara asks you to dig deep and express memory through writing, sound & movement. She has a fantastic way of pulling out dialogue that is poetic & meaningful. (contemporary circus performer)
“A truly inspiring teacher, Sara Porter gives her students maximum freedom to discover their own creativity and shape it into form.” (expressive arts therapist)
Instructor – Sara Porter has devised and taught innovative dance studio and studies courses in institutions and artistic communities in Canada and Scotland over 30 years. A vibrant and imaginative teacher, Sara trained in a wide array of physical and artistic forms including contemporary dance, volleyball, music, biochemistry, clown, religious studies, literary memoir, singing, acting, French feminist philosophy, cooking, and raising kids. In addition to two university degrees (Fine Arts, Dance Studies), she has completed courses in Mental Health First Aid by Commission of Canada & Introduction to Expressive Arts Therapy at The Create Institute in Toronto.
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