Embodied Storytelling with Teresa Izzard and Samuel Addison
Feet First Collective
17 May, Start: 11am, Finish: 1pm
Location: Dampier Community Main Hall
Ages: 15+
Adult: $15, Conc: $10
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Join the creative team behind the powerful theatre work Shadow Boxing and explore how movement can convey ideas, characters, emotions and narratives. This workshop will offer participants the opportunity to gain practical skills through movement, improvisation and devising activities. The activities will be physical so please wear comfortable clothes and bring a water bottle.
What to expect:
A somatic warm up
Physical training (barefoot will be requested, if this is a barrier for you, please let us know)
Rehearsal style exercises
Who are we?
Feet First Collective (FFC) is an award-winning Australian theatre company founded in 2015. FFC creates embodied theatrical experiences that invite meaningful engagement and transformation. Find out more: https://linktr.ee/FeetFirstCollective
Your coaches
Teresa Izzard and Samuel Addison are the award-winning creative team behind Shadow Boxing, recently programmed at Theatre Works, Melbourne and Flight Path Theatre, Sydney. They have run hundreds of workshops together in Perth, Regional WA and Sydney, supporting artists, students and educators on their embodiment journeys. In addition to their work through FFC, they have taught and presented together for Black Swan State Theatre Company (BSSTC), the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), Drama West, the Catholic Education Office of WA and the Independent Schools Association of WA.
Biographies
Dr Teresa Izzard CMA DEP is a theatre and movement director, dramaturg, creative producer and educator who brings her background in Laban, Viewpoints and Somatic Movement Education together with rigorous directorial processes to create clear visual and physical dramaturgy for challenging, provocative texts and devised works. Teresa has presented and taught internationally including for; Shapes in Motion, The Labanarian and Guildford School of Acting (UK), the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS, NYC) and BSSTC, WAAPA and the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia. Key movement training includes; Lecoq with Lorna Marshall, Laban at LIMS, Somatics with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Martha Eddy and Wendell Beavers, Viewpoints with Mary Overlie and the SITI Company. Highlights for Feet First Collective include Shadow Boxing, the WA and SA premieres of S-27; original works Medusa and Frankenstein; and This Is Where We Live which was described as “complex and tense ... compelling viewing” by Arts Hub. Her co-adaptation (with Silvia Lehmann) of The Yellow Wallpaper was nominated in the ‘Best New Play’ category of the WA Equity Guild Awards and won the Phillips Parsons Prize. She has directed the WA premieres of Machinal, Afternoon and Berkoff’s Metamorphosis. She is a trained dramaturg (Playwriting Australia) and has studied under prestigious directors including; Di Trevis, Elen Bowman, Lorna Marshall and Anne Bogart. She is Feet First Collective’s Artistic Director and Creative Producer. Find out more: https://teresaizzard.com/teresa-izzard
Samuel Addison is an actor, content creator, designer and producer who holds a BA in Theatre Arts from Curtin University. He has a background in creating powerful embodied performances and taking on extreme challenges. Highlights for Feet First Collective include learning to box for Shadow Boxing, training in aerials for Medusa and his performance as Chris in This is Where We Live which was described by Arts Hub as ‘extraordinary’. Other notable achievements are his award-winning performance of Playing with Shadows for Unbalanced Productions and his performance as Gregor in the WA premiere of Berkoff’s Metamorphosis. He recently played the lead in the short film “Neural Command”. Since graduating he has studied voice with Donald Woodburn, movement with Teresa Izzard and acting with Jeremy Levi. He was an FFC core artist between 2019-2024 and is now Feet First Collective’s Associate Artist. Find out more: https://www.instagram.com/s_laddison/
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