Bronwyn returns to Nanaimo for another afternoon of Action Theater®. This will be an extended 3 hour session vs our usual 2 hour session. We will program more Action Theater® specific jams depending on the response to this. So come and check it out. Action Theater® is an improvisational physical theater training and performance method created by Ruth Zaporah for Actors, Dancers, Vocalists, Public Speakers, Musicians, Enthusiasts and The Curious, developed by Ruth Zaporah. Learn how to embody your actions and voice. 17+ and requires maturity. All skill levels welcome.
=0D=0A=For more information about Action Theater®: http://www.actiontheater.com/
=0D=0A=The practice of Action Theater incorporates the disciplined exploration of embodied exercises that lead to increased skills of strong, clear, spontaneous, and artful communication. Action Theater addresses and expands the vocabularies of expression including: movement, vocalization, and speech. Action Theater is a tool to examines one's perceptive and responsive process, bringing awareness to and thereby disempowering distracting thoughts of self obsessions, fears, judgments and analysis.
=0D=0A=ABOUT BRONWYN PREECE
BRONWYN PREECE is a site-specific, improvisational performer, community Applied Theatre practitioner, author, walking and visual eARThist continuously engaging with notions of embodiment and reciprocity, artistically interrogating the dichotomies between culture and 'nature,'self and 'environment’.
Melding art and activism, performance and politics, she is currently pursuing her PhD through the University of Huddersfield, using improvisation as her means to explore the metaphoric and material overlaps and meanings of ‘ecology’ and ‘disability’ within and for our current age/climatic crisis, from within the embodied experience of someone with Wilson’s Disease.
=0D=0A=She holds a MA and BFA (with Distinction) in Applied Theatre. Bronwyn's MA graduate work saw her facilitating a SSHRC-funded multi-month community-devised, site-specific /sensitive/ sensuous cross-generational and cross-cultural performance Performing the Ecology of Place: Embodying an Eco-Cultural 'Living History' on Lasqueti Island/Xwe'etay.
=0D=0A=Please note: We require a minimum of 12 participants for this event to proceed. Please ensure you register by Friday, Sept 30 to secure your spot!
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