Training
Training is an essential element of our creative process: it’s a platform for creating work and a provocation towards the unknown. Its’s a way to collaborate across disciplines, and a way to engage with the world in an imaginative way. Rooted in a mix of lineages and practices, this ongoing physical and vocal training dilates the presence, energy, and awareness of the performer and builds the expressive capacities of the ensemble for each project. We regularly share our training practice through residencies, workshops, apprenticeships, and monthly participatory training sessions. Our next training series focuses on physical approaches to creating a character.
Creating a Character (Intensive): This four-day, 10-hour workshop taught by Hinterlands Co-Director Liza Bielby introduces participants to a variety of physical strategies for creating dynamic and engaging characters for stage, walk-around, or other performance projects. Explorations begin with the possibilities of one’s own body - developing vocabulary for using the body and voice - and move through object manipulation/puppetry, larger-than-life figures, mask performance and the clownesque. [Drop-in IS allowed but sessions will build off each other and you’ll get the most out of coming to all four sessions.]
Feb 10, 11, 12, 13 evenings 6:30-9pm
Entire workshop: $0-$250 (sliding scale based on economic need and geography); Per session: $0-$65 (sliding scale based on economic need and geography).
RSVP (and/or send questions) to info at thehinterlands dot org - slots are limited.
Are you interested in working with The Hinterlands for a two-month in-depth dive into training, creating, and building a personal practice? Email info[at]thehinterlands[dot]org to learn more about our apprenticeship program, funded by the Michigan Community Service Commission’s Community Center Grant program.
The Hinterlands were a member of the Training Consortium, a group of place-based and training-centric performance companies in the United States, with Double Edge Theatre, Mondo Bizarro, qStaff, Pangea World Theater, Ebony Golden, and Open Flame Theatre between 2015 and its conclusion in 2022.
image from Into the Hinterlands, a documentary film by Julia Yezbick