MAKING SENSES

Character is what surfaces; Self is what lies beneath — the hero-making storyteller within that shapes how we present and perceive.

Inspired by Will Storr’s Selfie: How the West became Self-Obsessed, this workshop builds both illustrated characters and illuminated selves. 

Status is a game we play – not our inherent worth, but where we stand, relative to others. The see-saw effect: when I go up, you go down.  

Inspired by Will Storr’s The Status Game, this workshop plays with balancing acts, extreme gaps, competitions, social transfers, and pecking orders.

Story, at large, is what happens — everything, everywhere, all at once. Storytelling pulls a single thread from the chaos.  

Inspired by Will Storr’s The Science of Storytelling, this workshop crafts stories by charting characters through crisis and change. 

Space is what appears between what people say, do, and hold — a gulf of tension we rush to fill with our own projections and anticipation.  

In this workshop, we play with physical and psychological space in performance, building suspense, landing surprises, and shifting scenes.

Style is the signature that emerges in play — shaped as much by the limits we push against as by the choices we make within them.  

Inspired by genre, we play with inherited styles, then turn inward to observe our habits and shape a more selective style in performance.

Scene is an essential moment — complete in itself, and part of something greater: a drop in the ocean, and the ocean in a single drop.  

Now we’re making things matter in the moment and beyond, playing with impact and altering our trajectories in scenes that stay with us.