Please join us for Physical-Vocal Improvisation!
The Improvisation workshop will create a safe space for exploration in movement, use of voice, and crafting improvisation for performance. The workshop concentrates on the elements of live performance - energy, space and time - to hone the skills to create meaningful, engaging, and aware experiences in the studio as well as for the stage. Jewell has been developing her method of teaching improvisation for over 30 years, and is dedicated to guiding people towards more freedom, confidence, and awareness of choices in improvisation.
This new series begins with guest teachers leading an open class. Join Robin Duda, Myriah Duda, and more, for the first three weeks of January. After that Donna will begin teaching an ensemble class as well as the earlier open class. The ensemble will be working together toward creating performances, of both improv and set pieces, to share with the wider community.
Friday the 10 and 17 of January, 2025
from 2:30 to 4:30 PM
Donna returns to lead the open class, and the ensemble, January 24
The Railyard Performance Center
1611 Paseo De Peralta
Santa Fe, NM, 87505
Call Rebecca for more info (303) 489-3569.
Facilitated by Donna Jewell
Donna Jewell is Professor of Dance and Head of Dance at the University of New Mexico. She has been teaching, performing, and choreographing internationally for over 30 years. She was a faculty member in theater program at the College of Fine Arts, Salzburg; a faculty member at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, and continues to choreograph and perform as an actress with the Lawine Torren Company in Austria, as well as act as dramaturg, choreographer and actress with Cablula6 Theater Company based in Vienna. She has also been a guest artist in Germany, Finland, Slovenia, and China. Jewell created and performed in the improvisation company Ecotone Physical Theater based in Albuquerque for over ten years, a company dedicated to performance using structured improvisation as a model.