Being/With online Zoom workshops
Jennifer Turnbull (Co-Director of Spiral Q) and Nichole Canuso (Artistic Director of Nichole Canuso Dance Company) are currently offering free movement and storytelling workshops. These workshops are online in order to be experienced from your own home.
What to expect
Being/With creative team is leading a series of free workshops open to the public. The workshop will guide the group through a tender and playful experience that results in a mini performance structure created collaboratively, drawing from oral history interview practice, story circles, and physical theater and movement practices.
Open to up to 9 participants* at a time these workshops will explore the themes present in the performance (absence/presence; communication over distance; the power of listening) through a series of storytelling activities and movement structures. Each workshop will bend to reflect the interests and experiences of the participants.
*The workshops are for groups of 9 at a time, but each person should be prepared to log in to the workshop alone in their own space.
If you would like to sign up for a slot in one of the workshops, email info@nicholecanusodance.org with the subject heading “Being/With workshop” and we will send you the available dates.
More about the project
Being/With is a live interactive installation by Nichole Canuso Dance Company (NCDC) that will connect audiences from two neighborhoods in Philadelphia (South Philadelphia and West Philadelphia). NCDC is collaborating with Spiral Q to design workshops in both neighborhoods that directly address the themes of the project: absence and presence, loss and embodiment and the power of listening. Since the goals of Being/With are inherently connected to this time of social distancing, isolation and communication across geography, we are currently structuring the workshops so they can be experienced from people’s own home. Led by NCDC Artistic Director Nichole Canuso and Spiral Q Co-Director Jennifer Turnbull, these workshops seek to soothe and enliven – and mourn – the distance between us. And to make space for the connections that rise to the surface.
