This six-week course is designed to help performers gain access to their body’s expressive capabilities and learn how to tell stories physically. Through activities such as yoga, image theatre, viewpoints, physical improvisation, and many (many) games, participants will begin to explore the body’s capacity for communication, holding and expressing emotion, and play. This course is designed for actors but great for any performer wishing to get out of their head and into their body and increase specificity, emotion, and expressiveness through movement. All bodies and experience levels welcome.

This course will involve lots of movement. The instructor’s goal is to create an inclusive environment for all bodies as much as possible. If you have health or mobility concerns, please contact manager@a2ct.org to discuss accommodations. 

Participants may find it helpful to bring a yoga mat. Everyone is asked to come prepared with a short piece of memorized text with a clear story--this can be a monologue, poem, children's story, folk tale, or anything else the participant desires. This should be around one page max.

About the instructor: Cydney Marie (she/they) has been active in Southeast Michigan’s theatre community for over a decade. On top of her performance experience, Cydney has worked as a director, stage manager, and writer, and has staged multiple original shows, including solo work. She is currently serving on the entertainment subcommittee for Ypsi Pride, and in the past, she served on the board for Saline Area Players and coordinated drama activities at Westminster Presbyterian Church. Cydney recently completed a year of intensive study in ensemble-based devising and physical theatre at Dell’arte International, and is currently completing yoga teacher training at Zion Well. She has experience with styles such as Commedia Dell’arte, clown, neofuturism, and theatre of the oppressed, and recently presented at the 2023 Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed conference in Indianapolis. When she’s not haunting theatres, Cydney enjoys practicing various dance styles and circus arts, working out, writing, cooking, and exploring graveyards.