Rhythm, Rhyme and other Useless Things
Meg MacLeod and
Lorrie Streifel
Asheville, NC
Saturday, May 10, 10:00 am - 12:00 noon
Useless activities get a bad rap, but sometimes they're what makes life worth living. Take sitting by a brook for example; or kidding around with pals, making up useless stuff 'til you laugh out loud.
In this playshop, we'll start with some simple basic InterPlay forms like: Walk Stop Run, 30-second 'tellings', throwing pretend paint on the walls, moving like seaweed, 3-breath songs and more. Then we'll fold in meaningless rhymes; rhythms and soundings about nothing.
You can't do it wrong in InterPlay. And you might find rhymes and songs spontaneously popping out of you with no effort!
Cost: $10-$25 sliding scale
Registration/Information: Meg MacLeod @ 828-276-6466 or Lorrie Streifel @ 828-254-6484
Venue
Movement Learning Center, above French Broad Food Co-op
90 Biltmore Ave, upstairs
Asheville, NC 28801
Located downtown Asheville; see site page for map. Park in the French Broad Food Co-op upper or lower lot. Walk pass the storefront to door at far end of building. Upstairs! Bathroom access. Closest food sources: the Co-op, Mamacita's across the street, and other cafes etc on Biltmore.
Leaders
Meg MacLeod
Meg MacLeod has been leading InterPlay classes and workshops since 1998: in the USA, the Netherlands, Scotland, Germany and Switzerland – in on-going classes, school teachers trainings, camp counselors, university dance and drama students, and at birthdays community celebrations and conferences. She has directed and performed in numerous choreographed and InterPlay (improvisational) concerts.
Some of her main influencers are the Work of Byron Kate, her 12-step recovery and Arnold Mindell's ideas on quantum physics, the Tao and the Dreaming body.
Earlier years.
As school teacher, she regularly directed performances starring the children or brought her musician friends to her school to perform for the kids. In the mid- late-80s as an artist-in-residence, she developed and solo-performed five interactive concerts using music, stories and dance/movement to teach social studies and ecology in 24 US states, Germany and the UK.
As a community activist for Walkable Communities in the 90s she produced several highly successful conferences and two organizations until becoming physically and emotionally 'burned-out'. She credits recovery of her senses and health to InterPlay and other systems and loves to share the playfulness and trust in her intuition and in life she has recovered.
Current passions are music and song-writing, InterPlaying and becoming more fluent in the Dutch language.
Lorrie Streifel