Workshop with Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre

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Have you ever wanted to abandon the stage and perform on a rooftop? How about in a freight elevator, a forest, a parking lot or a museum?

Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre has been creating site-specific performances since 2006. They’ve wrangled with bylaws, bailed out a flooded basement with a bucket, negotiated with well-intentioned police officers and created performances in a warehouse, a church, a gas station, art galleries, nightclubs, coffee shops, the Calgary Tower, Glenbow Museum and the Lodge Hall in Vulcan, Alberta.

This four-hour workshop explores the challenges and opportunities of working outside of purpose-built theatres, and provide techniques to help create original work in peculiar spaces. You’ll learn some of the tools from Swallow-a-Bicycle’s creative process, including physical improvisation, contextual research and the practicalities of working in found space.

To register, contact Jay Whitehead at jay.whitehead2@uleth.ca.

Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre enriches the lives of artistic thrill-seekers by creating and presenting professional, innovative, site-specific theatre experiences that push boundaries in unconventional spaces. It is based in Calgary, Alberta and was founded by Mark Hopkins and Charles Netto in 2006. For more information, visit swallowabicycle.com.  Check out their show Eavesdrop: The Coffee Shop Show while they are in Lethbridge.

 

Room or Area: 
Galileo's Lounge

Free workshop, registration required.


Contact:

Naomi Sato | satony@uleth.ca