Wild Life participation - The Ding Foundation

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TAKE THE WORDS AWAY?
This workshop will benefit participants who are already interested in performing and making theatre.
Estimated age range is 16 years up.
Investigating stories told through action, images, movement & music. Exploring different ways of connecting to the audience using visual & sound languages and genres, in order to find out ways of telling stories with no text. Asking: Where do you as a performer, animator or puppeteer put your focus? What do the audience understand? How do you use your body? How significant are the objects meanings? How can you use sound, lights, and the set in a creative way?

HAVING FUN WITH FEAR!
Using sound, lights, puppetry, objects, performance and structure to get a sense of how we can manipulate an audience's emotions.
Estimated age range is 12 years up
What situations & stories make us scared and why? Through games and exercises that explore the senses, darkness, light, sound, expectations, the known and the unknown we will work together to make theatrical situations where an audience feel fear, drawing people into a story and where they don't know what happens next.

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MAKING THE EXTRAORDINARY FROM THE ORDINARY
Using puppetry, making, performing and collaboration this workshop can be adapted to a broad range of ages and backgrounds, ages from 5-95!
Examining everyday situations, rituals, objects. What everyone does without thinking. Looking at our shared ‘normality’. Using playful games and journeys of imagination to find out what extraordinary worlds, characters, places, and situations may evolve from the ordinary rituals most of us do without thinking. Exploring different kinds of transformations. Transforming Objects, furniture, people, situations, characters, materials and clothes, to make crazy, funny and bizarre stories.

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