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PLAYING YOURSELF – A CLOWNING WORKSHOP WITH JUNE FUKUMURA
Monday June 5 + Tuesday June 6
6pm-9pm
The Guild Hall – 27 14 Ave, Whitehorse.
In this two part progressive workshop we will invite our many "selves" or "masks" to reveal themselves by tapping into our psychic circus! We will explore the relationship between Ringmaster, Clown Player, and Mask to deepen our understanding of our inner player.
Using structured improvisations, dynamic relaxation, Rivers, and extensions of the psycho-physical body we will allow characters to emerge from our subconscious and into the arena of Play.
We will follow our curiosities to find what lies just beneath the surface and let our clowns test drive the various characters we discover in the workshop.
The intention of this work is for you to find lightness, joy, and irreverence of you being YOU. This workshop is for individuals of all skill levels, artistic discipline, and background.
Please wear comfortable clothes you can move in.
June Fukumura is a Japanese-Canadian inter-disciplinary theatre artist with a BFA in Theatre Performance and a Certificate in Sustainable Community Development from Simon Fraser University.
June is the Co-Founder of New(to)Town Collective an artist collective with a mandate to create new experimental works; provide ongoing accessible physical theatre training and experimental research workshops called Training Jams. June is also the Co-Artistic Director of Popcorn Galaxies an experimental theatre company interested in re-enchanting the everyday through unconventional site-responsive and site-specific works. Popcorn Galaxies has produced over eleven independent productions in eight years and has been presented at Centre A Gallery, Vancouver Fringe Festival, BC Culture Days, rEvolver Festival (Upintheair Theatre), The Array: First Contact (Upintheair Theatre), and PushOFF 2021 (Theatre Replacement).
Additionally, she was the Associate Dramaturg at the Banff Playwrights Lab from 2019-2021. From 2019 - 2021 June worked as the Emerging Dramaturg/Producer/Curator for Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre’s MSG Lab program. She is now the Resident Dramaturg of vAct.
She independently produces the Nikkei Artist Mixer, the Emerging Dramaturg Mixer, and is the founder of Dyslexic Players Canada. Her artistic practice includes: experimental theatre creation, acting for theatre/film, performance, clown, dramaturgy, directing, producing, curating, Japanese language translation and language coaching, and cultural leadership.
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