PROGRAM
Lincolnville, Maine
A workshop centered pedagogical performance immersion
on a lake house compound.
On a beautiful lakeside property with shared and private accomodations, we host 12 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 2026. 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 facilitated by Monica Mirabile, Colin Self, DonChristian Jones & 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.
‘THIS IS A PERFORMANCE school’ works to develop self-agency 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 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.
The object of the school is not necessarily to develop performance but rather to develop a lens to make performance with or view performance through. The process of opening the lens often requires deep excavation of the mind, body and spirit. Sometimes this can bring up challenging emotions and memories. We ask that you come with curiosity and capacity to engage with this work knowing that emotions arising are a part of the process.
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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.
The object of the school is not necessarily to develop performance but rather to develop a lens to make performance with or view performance through. The process of opening the lens often requires deep excavation of the mind, body and spirit. Sometimes this can bring up challenging emotions and memories. We ask that you come with curiosity and capacity to engage with this work knowing that emotions arising are a part of the process.
EXAMPLE SCHEDULE:
9-10am: Breakfast + Freetime
10-11am: Warm up/ circle work
11:15-1:30pm: Morning Workshop: XIOR* Unblocking*
No Proscenium*
1:30-3:30pm: Lunch
3:30-6:30: Afternoon Workshop/ Mentoring
6:30-8pm: Freetime
8:30pm: Performance Dinner*
XIOR: Collective singing practice.
No Proscenium: Expanding practices & concepts of the stage.
Unblocking: Hypnosis and building choreography
Performance Dinner: Small group based collaboration using workshop themes to build performance around a meal.
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.