Compassionate Interactive Performance Workshops

Wednesday (drop-ins) Friday (team)

May 16 2-5 May 18 2-5

May 23rd 2-5 May 25th 2-5

May 30th 11-2 June 1st 2-5

June 6th 2-5 June 8th 2-5

Simon Magnus and Yana Landowne are offering a series of free workshops to teach compassionate interactive theatre techniques to anyone who is wants to better understand how to deeply engage with their audiences.

In these workshops we will look at how interactive performance can create meaningful change in it’s audience members. They would be particularly useful for both actors and people working with political activism.

Each week we will run 2 sessions:

Wednesday Sessions are one time experiences that teach different interactive performance methods to truly engage with audiences, understand how to work with different personality types and how to engaging with one person engages the whole.

Friday Sessions are for a group who can commit to all four sessions. We are requesting Activists and Performers attend this one. Over the course of these 4 weeks we will look at develop interactive politically focused performance ideas. It is recommended that people joining this group also are able to attend the Wednesday sessions (although this is not essential).

If you are interested please e-mail yanaland@gmail.com to register or for more info. Hope to see you there

Simon and Yana met at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2016 and discovered they had a deep artistic connection. They want to create interactive performances that come from a generous place. They both believe in empowering participants. And they both have led many workshops and are thrilled to be support by the British Council and Arts Council England to expand their practice and perspective and hope you will join them.

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Simon Magnus

I have clocked up many years of running theatre companies, directing and producing arts projects and facilitating workshops with all sorts of people – children, teachers, fellow artists, acrobats. One lesson has stood out for me along the way, and that’s the importance of finding the playfulness in our practice. Because with playfulness comes a much more honest and powerful creative presence.

I am Artistic Director of Root Experience, an interactive arts charity based in the UK. For check out more about what we do have a look at www.rootexperience.org.

Since my days at theatre school I’ve been engrossed in how we can engage with our audience in a way that empowers them to shape their own experiences. I believe drama, as a window into our imaginations, has the ability to strengthen all sorts of areas in our lives. The important thing is to focus it on a purpose that’s meaningful for the individual, whether that’s confidence building, creative expansion or better language skills.

Mahayana Landowne

I am a theater artist who works primarily as a director, and am interested in radical self-expression and empowering others to believe in their own creativity. I build imaginative and dynamic performative structures for collective dramatic visions that transcend daily life. My projects include: Impossible Country (MudBone), Fairytale Experiment (Rubulad), MIXED (Baruch), Beyond My Remote Control (Wild Project), Picasso Project (Luna Stage), The Heiress, (Mint), and Machinal (Rochester). Favorites include Skriker, Seagull, brass logic, Streetcar, Obgynt, Lear, and Mud. Collaborator- Lush Valley.. Creativity Workshops – Radiant Axis (Radiantaxis.com).

I am a Founding Artist of Calling All Parties and have been creating projects with the collective since 2010. I hold a BFA in Acting from NYU- TSOA and a MFA in Directing from YSD. I’m really excited about developing new collaborative projects, and as always delights in finding illuminating connections to expand our human potential, to celebrate possibilities and manifest hope.