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Check out this continuing (Part 2) blog below to get a taste of the artists and incredible topics they curate just for you.
Fuse theatre’s Community Connections Program offers interactive and performance-based education by our partners - by artists for artists.
We are proud to host an eclectic mix of incredible content that we curate especially for our audience. You! Get ready to learn a thing or two in dynamic workshops. We have invited highly skilled and unique artists to share their perspectives on impactful subjects and inspiring interactive toolkits to best support you in leveling up.
Our lively emergent dialogues give you a podcast like look behind the scenes of intricate topics of access, power, and artistic forms of liberation. Come and envision a more functional, just and harmonious future with us and our skilled partners.
“All the world is a lab and I am just experimenting with playful freedom making.” - Sahar Muhsin Laufman
PART 2….
Fuse Theatre Presents Alchemy of Apology by Community Connections Program coordinator and Master in Social Change, Sahar Muhsin Laufman. Check out this workshop to learn how to reverse engineer such a core and connective human ritual.
Apologies are so important because in justice work, toxic work environments, relationships, recovery from abuse you name it many people cause further harm by doubling down once they’re made aware of a mistake. A meaningful apology easily has the potential of smoothing over, creating ease in, and reconciling many interpersonal relationships. Apologies lead to diplomacy, deepening connection, trust, self assurance, peace, progress and an over all sense of being honored. This workshop gives an in depth look at reconciliation as a path to healing and wholeness.
The session also explores how reconciliation processes as deeply healing and enlightening practices to engage solo, such as when taking on the perspective of those whose apologies you crave (from those who have abused or subjected you to violence). We hope you will join us in the process of crafting all the apologies that were left unsaid in your heart and all the ones you ever craved to receive.
Join José Gonzales and Roxanne Schroeder-Arce for our Bilingual Playwrights Emergent Dialogue.
You will travel alongside us in this discussion featuring topics of access, exclusion, appropriation, gatekeeping, and more. Tune into known specialists in the field to gain their awareness of the positive changes over the course of time in the industry and obstacles still necessary to overcome. Hear about creative new projects and explore as usually social justice in present, playful and emergent dialougue.
Environmental Regeneration Anna Hope
This workshop takes a multidisciplinary approach to cultivating deeper understanding of the environmental problems we face as well as potential solutions.
You won’t want to miss our workshop by Anna Hope FarPorte, an herbalist living at the cutting edge of regenerative environmentalism and social justice. Human beings have the potential to be beneficial and integral parts of the natural world. Come hear stories about the regeneration of ecosystems to understand how.
Too often environmental messages tell us to reduce our footprint to the point some wonder if it would be better if humans did not exist at all. This type of thinking is of the same paradigm that sets humans apart from nature. By integrating our well being with that of the natural world we can have a positive and beneficial impact on the environment that goes beyond reducing our footprint to actually regenerating and repairing the damage that has already been done.
Had enough yet? Well there’s more to come. Dropping soon:
Join International Theatre and Arts for Liberation Emergent Dialogue with Kami & Sahar. While the concept of edge dwelling scholartivists (scholars, artists, activists) can be hard to put into words it is often situated in the lived experience of those that exist at the intersection of multiple social identities. Explore the power and magic of neurodivergence, gender fluidity, and counter cultural narratives when lived up against the edges of power and privilege. These highly educated and uniquely skilled artists chat about autonomy, resistance, performance, and play. How each of these lives in the other and how all interplay.
Community Connections presents Laban’s Effort Theory as offered by Alexandra Bellar
Alexandra currently holds a BFA in Dance, MFA in Dance and CMA (Certified Movement
Analyst) in Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals. She has been on the
faculty of several universities including Princeton.
Theatre is profound, generative, mind-expanding. It can take us to unexplored territory in ourselves and in our audience. It can illuminate social, political, and personal narratives in ways that encounter resistance in other forms of communication. But it is hard to make, hard to perform, and sometimes, hard to watch. Making theatre that hits the audience with immediacy and clarity and creating a working environment that is consensual, inclusive, and empathetic is hard-won. Especially at this moment in our many histories, finding the language that acts definitively yet doesn’t leave anyone behind can feel impossible.
Laban’s Effort Theory allows for language to become extremely specific yet untethered to stereotypes, archetypes, or biased associations. Think of how different it feels to be told to move with fast speed and shifting focus than to be told to express anxiety, how we may talk about weight, impact, and directness rather than aggression. It opens up a world of shared vocabulary that does not need to trigger pain or ask that we divulge our personal emotional life every time we walk into a studio, classroom, or onto a stage.
This series of 4 short online participatory videos will transform your creative process by helping you to. Find shared language that is unbiased, consensual, and specific. Find depth to characters by discovering the expressive and functional movement life specific to them. Extend your range of expressivity as a performer. Break habits as a performer, creator, teacher, writer. Have a road map to develop character without feeling that you need to either mine your personal life, nor reinvent the wheel each time you start a project. Create a safer space by removing the subjective language that often leaves people behind, or triggers associations that don’t serve them, or the process. Reach an audience with immediacy by creating vivid, concise imagery saturated with meaning.
2024 will be chocked full of shorts, reels, and snack sized bites into incredible topics.
One More Taste of Things to Come
Lotti Seebeck is excited to bring us a peek at her immersive lab and project developing methods and access aesthetics for relaxed performance spaces focused on neuro-queerness inclusivity. Stay tuned to find out more.
Want another taste of international artists and audiences? We’re excited to host Zukunft Theater (Future Theater) in person workshop for building collaborative spaces of awareness of dynamics of privilege and access through the lens of vulnerability and with the goal of social change out of Berlin, Germany.
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