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The Power of Listening and Subsequential Storytelling

Participants tell each other their personal stories. After which their story is retold by those who listened to them. With live soundtrack by the musicians.

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Presence and Awareness - Relational Game Dinah Stabb

Body and Awareness
Report on Dinah Stabb’s workshop:
Awareness, energy, openness, presence, meeting each other, alertness…..
Some of the exercises we did with Dinah are described here,
We started our session with a play where we used and learned the names of all the participants. We called a person’s name and threw a ball towards this person. The receiver [...]

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Presence - session 2 - Helsinki

Wednesday 30th of September - 13:30 - 14:30
Dinah Stabb session 2
Summary - by Don
As with the first of the presence sessions, all participants seemed to enjoy this activity which included pairs of people telling the story of their musical beginnings to each other, and the opposite number recounting the story of their partner. This was [...]

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Presence - session - Helsinki

Tuesday 13:30 - 15:00 - Dinah Stabb
summary - by Don
Aims
Using physical acting exercises to enhance understandings of how physical actions might be read (by audiences, students etc).
What happened
Variety of naming and movement games, command and comply exercises, discussions about the physical messages people gave through body presentations and responses.
What worked
People engaged willingly.
What was left undone
Perhaps [...]

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Session - Presence in performance- Villecroze

Tuesday April 21st - 11.30-12.30
A practical workshop led by Dinah Stabb, actor and theatre director at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. This will focus on the importance of our whole selves in performance, and on ways which may help to enable to connect body and expression on stage.

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