Where everyone shines!
Performance & Play Untensive
Phil Porter and
Elizabeth Mendana Shaw
Oakland, CA
5-day workshop Monday-Friday · 9 am-3:30 pm (Wed only 1-9 pm) · June 12-16
Learn how to make dances, sing songs, and tell stories on the spot that look rehearsed-without years of training. Get grounded in InterPlay's tried and true forms and techniques that promote wonderful experiences of personal and community creativity. Used by enthusiasts from Bangkok to Boston, InterPlay is used in high schools, spiritual communities, workplaces, prisons, wherever people have something to share. Appropriate for people of all ages and abilities who enjoy creativity and desire more expression in community.
Cost: $350 (room & board not included)
Registration/Information: 510/465-2797
Venue
InterPlayce
2273 Telegraph Avenue (at 23rd St.)
Oakland, CA 94612
InterPlayce is the center of the InterPlay universe. The offices for Body Wisdom, Inc. are also located here. The building is at the corner of 23rd and Telegraph, one block north of West Grand. It is just a few blocks from the 19th Street Downtown Oakland BART station, and on several convenient bus lines. On-street parking is always available at night and metered during the day. It is also easily accessible by several of the major freeways.
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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.
Elizabeth Mendana Shaw
Elizabeth Mendana, MFA, is a member of the InterPlay-based Wing It! Performance Ensemble in Oakland, CA and is an international InterPlay leader and performer. She is versed in dance, theatre, and stage wisdom with a special gift for caring about people and art at the same time. The San Francisco Chronicle has called her dancing "Stunning" and "Hypnotic". She has performed with several San Francisco choreographers as well as presenting her own creative work with her company Mendana Productions. She has recently relocated to Seattle where she hopes to continue creating performance art, teach Pilates, and make a home.