– Freeing the Instrument for the Performer, Nourishment for the Human Being
This experiential workshop explores hands on bodywork and movement designed to free the performer from habitual body patterns that inhibit flow of body, voice, breath, and emotion. It incorporates aspects of Body Dynamics™, Cranial Sacral, FeldenKreis, Alexander, Bioenergetics, Developmental Movement, Body Mind Centering, and hands on soft tissue release work.
The developmental progression of exercises focusing on parts and then the whole of the body includes a study of anatomy, hands on partner exchange, ball work, and alignment / balance / vibration experience that offers the performer an opportunity to discover and also become free from their own habitual carriage.
In a process of disarmament, increased awareness, and release of tension, a freer instrument is unearthed, allowing the performer to embody and express a greater capacity for presence and wider range of experience.
Engaging with each other on the level of bone, muscle, posture, stance, release, sound, carriage, and breath, we offer simple nourishment for the body and soul in the form of touch, witness, and tribe. And its fun and you end up with lots of tools for your self for the rest of forever.
(Eliza is certified in Body Dynamics™, as a teacher of Movement for the Actor at Shakespeare & Company and she is a director of ensemble theater making. She has an MFA from Naropa University and a BA from Harvard University. In NYC she has taught Body Dynamics™ at the T. Schreiber Studio, Performance of a Lifetime, Carol Fox Prescott Studio, Rasa Yoga, and in Private Studios. Eliza has designed and taught theater workshops and residencies at Naropa University, California State University Summer Arts Intensive, Bank Street College, and Cooper Union College of Science and Art. She has taught creative process, theater arts, and designed integrated curriculum with and for special needs kindergartners, gifted high school students, and public school teachers throughout the NYC public school system. As movement faculty at Shakespeare & Company, Eliza has coached aspiring and professional actors in the art of freeing their bodies and voices. Eliza includes Dynamics of the Body in her acting curriculum at Marymount Manhattan College and her Ensemble Body Practice curriculum at the Terry Schreiber Studio. )
standing in the center place at once grounded and uplifted
above and below, before and behind, in all the ten directions