Action Theater Improvisation
Billie Jo Joy
Billie Jo Joy has been teaching yoga at CCAE for over 12 years. She has been devoted to Iyengar Yoga for 18 years, finding within it an exquisite balance between strength, flexibility, and spiritual upliftment. She is also Kripalu certified and brings over 25 years of experience in dance and movement research to her teaching. Billie Jo has a master's degree in education from Harvard University where she worked in international education development and on several mind-body medicine projects which took her to India and China. Billie Jo is also an accomplished dancer, choreographer, actor, writer, and director who works irregularly in stage and film. She teaches regular weekly classes in yoga and Action Theater improvisation at Art & Soul, a studio dedicated to the contemplative and expressive arts, which she co-founded in Cambridge in 2001. She also offers an annual yoga retreat in Tulum, Mexico every March. Billie Jo uses poetic language and kinesthetic imagery and creates a safe and friendly atmosphere for students to learn yoga. Besides CCAE, Billie Jo has served on the faculty at Salem State College, Emerson College, and The Boston Conservatory. Students have called her an "exceptional and knowledgeable teacher." www.artsoulyoga.com, joy@yoga.com
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Action Theater is a unique form of embodied improvisational theater in which one practices the art of presence.
Through rigorous and fun exercises that isolate and then re-combine movement, sound, and language, students learn to source creative impulses and craft them into clear images, stories, and dreamscapes. The practice turns the mind inside out, examines habits, and opens up new possibilities. Working in solos, duets, trios and as an ensemble, classes begin with physical and vocal warm-ups and proceed through exercises, ending with performance scores. Each Saturday will focus on a particular theme (such as sound into language, transformations, etc.). This work is good for performers and non-performers alike, and is applicable to everyday life. Limited to 7.
Sec. 02: 4 Tuesdays, 8:00-10:00 pm. Begins Feb. 16, Meets in Cambridge; Address sent to registrants | $140
ACIM–02
$140.00
