PROGRAM
SEPTEMBER 6-13th 2025Lincolnville, Maine
A workshop centered pedagogical performance immersion
on a lake house compound.
On a beautiful lakeside property with shared and private accomodations, we will host 11-17 participants who are interested in developing an expansive approach to performance and its pedagogy. Each participant will live, eat and learn in community for one week in early fall 2025. In the spirit of circular learning, this school offers an opportunity to cultivate skills as a performer and build relationships within community through workshops, discussions and performance opportunities directed by Monica Mirabile and Colin Self with co-Facilitation by DonChristian Jones and Artist Chef Halo Kaya Perez-Gallardo.
People of all experience levels are welcome. Whether you are an actor, dancer, culture maker, facilitator, director, curator, organizer or anything else - performance school aims to use performance as a lens for understanding the real conditions of our lives.
People of all experience levels are welcome. Whether you are an actor, dancer, culture maker, facilitator, director, curator, organizer or anything else - performance school aims to use performance as a lens for understanding the real conditions of our lives.
EXAMPLE SCHEDULE:
9-12pm: Breakfast + Freetime
12-1pm: Lunch
1-2pm: Warmup: XOIR* + Circle
2-5pm: Workshops -Unblocking*
No Proscenium*
5-6pm: Freetime
6-8pm: Perf Tools: Hypnosis, financial literacy, Past Life Regression, mentoring
8:30pm: Performance Dinner
XIOR: Collective singing practice.
No Proscenium: Practices in expanding concepts of the stage.
Unblocking: Hypnosis and choreography, identifing information in the body.
‘THIS IS A PERFORMANCE school’ works to develop self-agency, consider anti-productivity, and invite group participation through circular, emergent and evolving practices. Each day consists of movement and vocal workshops. Breakfast and Lunch are shared and dinners are often accompanied by performance experiments. THIS IS A PERFORMANCE school is not a residency. The object of the school is not to develop performance necessarily but rather to develop a lens to make performance with or view performance through.
The theme of each day informs workshop topics and meal choices, and spirals out from there. Workshop themes can include: Releasing Fear, Synchronization, Trickster Archetypes, Storytelling, Somatic Processing, Abjection, Revolution, Support Systems and Mysticism among others. Workshops include guided and autonomous activations.
Performance dinners are featured almost every night, where a designated group of 3–4 participants will use emergent inspiration and daily workshop themes to develop a performance experiment around and within a dinner setting.
We recognize that recent events are rooted in the 75-year occupation of Palestinian territories by the Israeli state and in United States colonialism, and that what is happening in Gaza is not a conflict but a siege, not self defense but collective punishment.
We call for an immediate ceasefire and the liberation of the Palestinian people and their land.