Moving, Sounding, and Acting
This workshop explores the integration of movement and voice by delving into the mind/body connection, sensations and experiences through structured improvisation. Each class incorporates a physical warm-up as well as a vocal warm-up with the group learning songs to be sung together in "rounds." This creates a great sense of community and unified purpose, from which we can move into explorations together and individually. The experience of putting sound to movement greatly enhances and enriches the body's possibilities and qualities. At the same time, moving enhances and deeply affects the voice and all of its emotional colors. "Creative play" is the core of this workshop.

Moving Fictions
The workshop will concentrate on how to dance our imagination, articulating our limitations, habits and personal taboos. We will methodically stretch our understanding of how we can play others and ourselves on stage. These moving fictions will be shaped through improvisation into physical scenarios that transform and shift as we interact with others.

Experimentalism
Both body and dance are always provisional, which does not mean that body and dance are abstractions. There is a concreteness that is always the essential teacher whose effects can be startlingly physical. In the workshop Hay will propose a particular set of performance practices. Once the dancer becomes familiar with how to work the practices, a second layer, the choreography, will be added to the workshop experiments