Spontaneous Combustion: POSTPONED UNTIL APRIL!

Spontaneous Combustion: Crafting Performance in the Moment

A workshop in the performance of improvisation for actors and dancers with the improvisational ensemble, Like You Mean It, sponsored by the Taffety Punk Theater Company

LIKE YOU MEAN IT

Noelle Chun, Adriana Durant, Annie Kloppenberg

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP (in brief)

Session 1: Implode (10-12): Expanding possibilities, encountering risk, chance, and choice… play with extremes of consciousness, increasing self awareness in movement, following impulses and surprising oneself in personal movement vocabularies while developing cohesive solo material

Session 2: Explode (12-2): Ensemble Making, Composing in a Group …expand awareness to the whole group and awaken a responsive body that can integrate personal movement impulses with a larger group awareness, alternating between perceiving and generating composition, establishing a group sensitivity.

Session 3: Blow it Up (10-12): Get performance-ready, refining approaches to composition …participants further refine their new ensemble dynamic and begin to recognize and create coherent pieces.

2PM PERFORMANCE: Invite Your Friends! …workshop participants put their new to the test in front of an audience!

@ Flashpoint Mead Theater Lab

916 G Street NW WDC

Sat. Feb. 13 10-2pm (bring snack/lunch)

Sun. Feb 14 10-3, (break 12-1, 2pm show*)

*open to the public, $10

***** POSTPONED UNTIL APRIL*****

Registration: (202) 261-6612

$65 Full Workshop

$50 Saturday only

ABOUT LYMI

The Columbus, OH-based improvisational trio of dance artists performs and teaches workshops nationally. Audiences have heralded Like You Mean It’s simultaneous wit, humanity, oddity, and physical virtuosity. The dancers first began working together regularly as graduate students at The Ohio State University and found their individual and collective ideas about improvisational

performances yielded a dynamic, distinctive approach to group improvisational performance and teaching. Past & upcoming performances and teaching engagements include The Ohio State University, CM2, Agora Arts Festival, Sneak Reviews at Cleveland Public Theater Parish Hall, Ohio University, University of Akron, Oberlin College: (OH); Green Street Studios (MA), University of Wisconsin; Zenon Company Studios (MN), Southern Theater for Minnesota Fringe Festival, Epiphany Dance Experiment (Chicago), University of Michigan, Michigan Dance Project, Triskelion Arts (NYC).