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THINGS-SPEAK: devising performance with objects
Workshop Facilitator: Mia van Leeuwen
March 22, 2019
2 - 5 pm
Room W420 (Drama Studio)
Free and open to all students in the University of Lethbridge Faculty of Fine Arts
This playful workshop invites participants interested in approaches to generating performance material inspired by the objects that surround us.
THINGS-SPEAK is a process of improvisation grounded in free association/stream of consciousness techniques combined with movement and objects as a catalyst for creation.
Performers, actors, dancers, movers, visual artists, musicians, writers or anyone interested in exploring creative acts are welcome.
Participants will need to bring a minimum of THREE found objects:
Any object of significance for YOU; an object you feel comfortable bringing into a studio environment, keeping in mind that objects need to be carried to and from the studio.
Participants will also need clothing they can move freely in as well as a writing device.
Past object participants include: a yellow rubber glove, a box of cereal, a framed photograph, an umbrella, a pipe, a pair of bowling shoes, a tea-cup, a chess-set, a wig, a bust of Shakespeare, a bag of feathers …
For more information please contact Annie Martin, Associate Professor, Art.
About the Artist
Mia van Leeuwen has been transforming objects most recently in her projects: Sapientia (Montreal 2019, Lethbridge 2018), Destroy She Said (Winnipeg 2018, Edmonton 2015), Postcolonial Postcards (Dalnavert Museum, Winnipeg 2017), and White Bread (Edmonton 2016, European Tour 2015). Mia is also the co-artistic director of the experimental - and object obsessed - out of line theatre (founded in 2003 with Ian Mozdzen, Winnipeg) and is currently an Assistant Professor specializing in Movement and Devised Theatre in the Drama Department at the University of Lethbridge.
Image: Production still of Destroy She Said, Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg, 2018. Photo by Leif Norman
Mia van Leeuwen also speaks in the Art NOW series at noon in the University Recital Hall on March 20. More information about the lecture here.
Contact:
finearts | finearts@uleth.ca | uleth.ca/fine-arts