Mime Workshop by Joylyn Secunda

Learn to create your very own mime pieces through movement technique, collaborative group exercises, and embodied writing prompts with with Canadian physical theatre artist Joylyn Secunda.

This workshop includes movement technique, collaborative group exercises, and embodied writing prompts to support students in creating their very own mime pieces. Our immersion in mime helps theatre artists working from all styles and approaches make clear, physical choices for the creation of environment, character, and story. We shape the performance space, as well as endow absent objects with weight, shape, texture, value, and power. We explore comedic timing, character-based comedy, conflict, lazzi, and exaggeration.

The workshop will also explore conventions and aesthetic approaches that help the audience interpret and appreciate visual theatre. The pedagogy draws on Joylyn Secunda’s performance experience especially in mask theatre, mime, and puppetry, as well as intensive studies in Corporeal mime, pantomime, clown, and dance.

This workshop is intended for performers of all disciplines. No mime experience necessary. Please wear comfortable clothes and bring a water bottle.