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The Best of performance improvisation!

Playing Our Hearts Out

Phil Porter and Cynthia Winton-Henry

Oakland, CA

2 Weekends of performances Fridays & Saturdays at 8 pm, Apr 21-22 & 28-29 · Sundays at 2 pm, Apr 23 & 30

Two weekends of improvisation like you rarely see it! WING IT! wears its heart on it's sleeve as it rants and raves about life, love, politics, popular culture and more. Two weekends of amazing performances by WING IT!, the multi-talented and exuberant InterPlay performance ensemble. They seamlessly weave storytelling, movement, and music while illuminating the comedy and tragedy of life. They leave audiences saying, »That was rehearsed, right?« For the Sunday performances, WING IT! will be joined by the InterPlay Ensemble (Apr 23) and the Cultures of Peace Ensemble (Apr 30).

Cost: $15/$12 students & seniors

Registration/Information: 510/465-2797

Venue

Metro Theater

210 Broadway
Oakland, CA
The Metro is near downtown Oakland in Jack London Square. On-street parking is available as well as nearby parking garages.

WING IT!

www.InterPlay.org/wi.asp

WING IT! Performance Ensemble was formed by Phil Porter and Cynthia Winton-Henry in 1989. Since then the company has created full length improvised countless concerts of dance, storytelling and music. They have been featured in a form of community-based performance called "The Unbelievable Beauty of Being Human" in San Francisco, Seattle, Raleigh/Durham, Sydney, and Chicago. They frequently appear in benefits for other causes including Habitat for Humanity, breast cancer research and AIDS organizations.

The company uses the practice of InterPlay as the basis for their work. Each concert is different and although they are often organized under a particular theme, the specific content of any particular performance is unplanned. WING IT! is known both for its humor, poignancy and sheer humanity. This Oakland based company has spawned other InterPlay-based performance companies in Seattle, Chicago, and Raleigh/Durham.

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.
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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.
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