Peace and Spirituality Performance of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
InterPlay's “Unbelievable Beauty of Being Human” Untensive
Great for anyone interested in community performance, social change, and full on humanity!
Phil Porter and
Cynthia Winton-Henry
Joppa, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Thursday August 22nd 7-9:30, Friday and Saturday, August 23-24 9:00am-9pm, Sunday performance
The Unbelievable Beauty of Being Human” is an adventurous, improvised full-evening InterPlay performance that puts glee and awe back in the word human. After performaces in San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Sydney, Minneapolis, and Barcelona "UBBH" comes to Edinburgh's Spirituality and Peace Festival as a unique form of contemporary folk art. InterPlay practices allow diverse people (even when we don't all speak the same language) to play in large-group forms and experiment with creating individual and small group songs, stories and dances on the spot. The best part? Seeing people play their hearts out in the workshop!
Open to anyone interested in play or performance regardless of previous InterPlay experience. All abilities welcome. No one required to perform!
The Sunday August 25th, afternoon performance will be at St Johns church, Princes Street, Edinburgh!
Open to anyone interested in play or performance regardless of previous InterPlay experience. All abilities welcome. No one required to perform!
The Sunday August 25th, afternoon performance will be at St Johns church, Princes Street, Edinburgh!
Cost: £190 or U.S. $290
Registration/Information: Local inquiries: mairi_campbell@hotmail.com. To register contact info@interplay.org 001 510-465-2797
Leaders
Phil Porter
Phil is one of the founders of InterPlay. He is a teacher, performer, writer, and organizer. With Cynthia Winton-Henry he is the co-founder of WING IT! Performance Ensemble, and has written several books, some in collaboration with Cynthia, including Having It All: Body, Mind, Heart & Spirit Together Again at Last and The Slightly Mad Rantings of a Body Intellectual Part One. Phil is particularly interested in the use of InterPlay in organizational life, and believes that InterPlay can be a powerful tool to create communities of diversity and peace.
Cynthia Winton-Henry
Cynthia Winton-Henry, co-founder of InterPlay with Phil Porter, has researched "what the body wants" in the arts, in jails, shelters, slums, hospitals, churches, businesses, classrooms, doctoral programs in theology and the arts, and in multicultural education. She develops somatic curriculums to address racism, leadership for the Earth, and spiritual intelligence with an eye to supporting millennials. A featured speaker on the Body Intelligence Summit and a keynoter at conferences, Cynthia is the author of What the Body Wants, Having It All: Body, Mind, Heart & Spirit Together Again at Last; Dance - A Sacred Art: Discovering the Joy of Movement as Spiritual Practice, Chasing the Dance of Life: A Faith Journey, and The Art of Ensoulment: A Playbook on How to Create From Body and Soul.. Check out her writing, The Dancing Center, on Substack, her Hidden Monastery Online Dance Chapels and courses for those seeking spiritual intelligence for our time at cynthiawinton-henry.com.