Instructor: Guest Instructor - Fosse Jack

For as long as humans have been human, we’ve told stories. We have shared our knowledge, our experiences, our hopes, and our feelings through our words, and our bodies. Through movement and dance, stories can transcend the limitations of languages, and move from the conceptual to the physical, from the intangible to the incarnate, and from the ethereal to the embodied.

This class explores the act and art of embodying a story — of taking a concept, an experience, or a written narrative and expressing it through physical movement. We will explore different acting techniques and workshop ways of applying them to our movements.

Through group play, we will explore narrative building through kinesthetic response, awareness, and collaboration. And we will take the first steps in developing our own work of embodied storytelling, and see how it feels to take a work from the page to the stage.

Guest Instructor: Fosse Jack (he/him, they/them) is a Seattle-based actor, dancer, ecdysiast, choreographer, and writer; a performer with a passion for embodied storytelling, and for the exploration of the human psyche through burlesque. The Co-Artistic Director, and active Board Member of Noveltease Theatre, a Seattle-based literary burlesque theatre company that produces unique adaptations of classic literature, where they have utilized their talents as adaptor/writer, choreographer, actor, and director into such projects as Adventure! Marvelous Tales of the Baron Munchausen (2019), Northanger Abbey (2019), The Canterbury Tales (2021), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2022), The Count of Monte Cristo (2023), adapted by Mx. Pucks A’Plenty, A Metamodern Prometheus, an adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, co-adapted with (co-artistic director) Sailor St. Claire, and co-choreographed with Trixie Paprika, and Sleeping Beauty and the Bear Prince (2024), collection of fairy tales.

Prerequisites: None!

Doors will lock at the start of class. Please plan accordingly and arrive at least 10 minutes before class.

Pass Required: Event Fee