Many Hats Collaboration presents a second workshop on
Improvised Choruses and Experimental Physical Theatre
with Dara Weinberg and Jessica Wallenfels

WHAT: Ensemble Performance, Generative Creation, Physical Theater

WHERE: Performance Works NorthWest
4625 SE 67th Ave.
Portland, OR 97206
503.777.1907

WHEN: Thursday, October 18, 7pm-10pm

HOW: RSVP to jessicawallenfels @ gmail.com por favor.

After the success of our first workshop, Many Hats is offering a second chance to experiment as we continue to investigate a new method of devising theater with improvisation. We will do exercises on the improvised chorus and investigate the text of Edwin Abbot’s FLATLAND, a text about dimensions and geometrical beings, using this method. Actors, dancers, musicians, directors, writers, singers and all artists, theatrical and otherwise, are welcome.

The improvised chorus is a work in progress – come and help us progress!

Donations accepted: $5-$10 sliding scale
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Please wear clothes you can move in and bring a water bottle.

Don’t forget to RSVP! See you the 18th.

Dara Weinberg is a director and choreographer who works with the free radical chorus, an experiment in improvised choral theater and creating choruses through imitation. Until recently LA-based, Dara directed The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, an improvised dance play based on William Blake’s poetry, at the Met Theatre Company. Other Los Angeles directing credits include A Vast Wreck and Brandohead at Theatre of NOTE. She assistant directed the premiere of My Wandering Boy (dir. Bill Rauch) at South Coast Rep. At the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, she assistant directed Romeo and Juliet (dir. Bill Rauch) and Tartuffe (dir. Peter Amster). Other credits include Human Bombing for the Berliner Compagnie as well as choreography for the West Bay Opera Company and Sacred Fools Theatre Company. She assistant directed The Stones (dir. Corey Madden) at the Kirk Douglas. In December, she will assistant direct LYDIA at the Denver Center (dir. Juliette Carrillo). Her website is https://weinberg.wordpress.com.

Jessica Wallenfels (dir. Rest Room, Break, Then Open; choreog. OSF’s Romeo and Juliet, Mutt) and Dara Weinberg (AD on this season’s OSF shows Tartuffe, Romeo and Juliet, see bio below) will be divvying up a couple of hours to experiment and share on ensemble movement and physical theater. This will be on-your-feet actor/mover type stuff in a no-pressure environment. You’ll be creating and working in a group, as well as bouncing off of varied directorial viewpoints, in this evening for novices through experts. Many Hats Collaborators Lava Alapai and Annalise Albright will be on hand and throwing into the mix.