Adult Mime Workshop

Description

ADULT MIME WORKSHOP
with Educator 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.

ABOUT OUR EDUCATOR

Joylyn Secunda is a physical theatre artist, actor, dancer, and puppeteer based in Vancouver. They have performed their solo physical comedy, The Moaning Yoni, 50 times in cities across Canada. They starred as Scrooge in A Wonderheads Christmas Carol (The Wonderheads), as Seek in Pop Pop (Presentation House), and as Zephyr in Crisis on Planet Z (Monster Theatre), and performed as a puppeteer in The Breathing Hole (National Arts Centre) and It’s Okay to Be Different (Mermaid Theatre). They are a BFA Acting graduate from UBC and have studied clown with John Turner (Mump & Smoot), puppetry with Peter Balkwill (Old Trout) in Banff, mime with Dean Evans (Cirque du Soleil), and devised theatre at Dell’Arte International.