Today was the first workshop with Tim Miller and it. was. AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To give those who were not there a little glimpse of how awesome the workshops were, they began with move like you're walking on broken glass while faking an orgasm and ended with a moving presentation of everyone telling the story of one of their body parts; mine was my legs.
Tim's view on performance and artists is so unique. He sees everything through stories people tell and how everyone has their own story and it is POWERFUL! Everyone can find something about themselves and then "Do shit for a period of time." The depth that asks us to explore these body stories is incredibly moving.
Throughout the workshop, Tim kept mentioning a term "charged spaces" to describe the energy that is felt in a performance. I really like this term for the energy of theatre because when there is a collection of performers in any space it gains a certain energy that vibrates within the people and even the space itself. I really felt this tonight working with Tim and on other performances I have worked on in theatre. The feeling of a group of people who have imaginations that they have, as Jonathan Larson said, "the need to express to communicate." This is what I think "charged spaces" means.
I cannot wait for more workshops with Tim!
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