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"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." - Virginia Woolf
"Everything begins as a story we tell about ourselves..." Jeannette Winterson
Memoir & Movement is a multi-disciplinary approach to investigating your own creative practice based on your life experience. Geared towards building performance material, each class includes guided movement improvisation, vocal work, creative writing, and integration. Expand artistic boundaries and articulate stories within your bodies and voice. Hear your own voice tell your own story - in words, movement, voice, song, costume.
Explore your body of stories! All ages, all genders, all abilities, all welcome.
MONDAYS (online 10:00-11:00 am EST) - January 6th - February 24th
A gentle, creative wake-up for your week. Sara leads an hour of Memoir & Movement-inspired practice: Each hour-long session includes: dance improvisation, creative writing, conversation about creative process, voice work and poetry.
COST : $200 - $160 (CADA Rate)
Please contact us if payment is a barrier
TUESDAYS (in studio)
A deeper dive into building material over several weeks. Each session includes: dance improvisation, creative writing, voice work, poetry, discussion on identity, personal process, and artmaking.
At IGAC Studio, 180 Shaw St, #103
No winter offerings as the company is in production. Stay tuned for Weekend Workshops!
Workshop Info
Wonderful, generous and so beautifully creative
You are a great teacher and facilitator. You led us through this rich, subtle process of listening & noticing with such humour, light, and instinct
This class, at this time, was a gift
A heart-lifting experience
PARTICIPANTS SAY...
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"Working with Sara Porter in her ‘Memoir & Movement’ course has inspired me to rework my solo contemporary circus show; Twist of Fate from 2008. Sara has a fantastic way of pulling out dialogue from people that is poetic and meaningful. Through her own created exercises, she asks you to dig deep into your past and express memory through writing, sound and movement."
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- Angola Murdoch, Lookup Theatre
"As actor-performers, we are either creating when working for/ or collaborating in projects; participating in time framed, structured workshops, or practicing alone in our own private spaces. Sara’s weekly sessions provide us with a rare, and unique opportunity of creating individually, privately yet in the company of others regularly spread over a couple of months. They are precious time windows where we explore our own individual body-mind-movement with Sara’s guidance, sharing it simultaneously. It’s an hour of joyful movement-dance improvisation, creative writing, and inspiring conversations about performance creation. I’m grateful! “
- Itir Arditi _ actor, June 2023
OTHER ARTISTS SAY ...
Teacher
Sara Porter has 30 years experience as a dance educator, teaching both creative and theoretical approaches to contemporary dance in colleges and university in Canada and Scotland. An innovative and popular teacher, she has advised on curriculum - and developed new program content - for professional professional training programs and university departments in Canada and Scotland.
Sara is in demand across the country by artists in an array of disciplines - including opera, theatre, circus, dance - as a guide to extend and enrich creative and personal practices.
