Members of Nepean Area Disability Organisation and AFFORD Windsor joined forces at the Hawkesbury Regional Gallery for an Introduction to Performance workshop. Facilitated by Katy Green, the group explored various ways to use movement, stillness, speech and sound in performance. Within these focus areas, the participants learnt to integrate emotion, character, shape and style into their performances. By the end of the 10 weeks, the participants had established a set of weekly drama rituals, produced confidence and creativity in their performing and formed a wonderful bond.
Performance Workshop with Katy Green
Tutor profile: Katy Green
Katy is a Sydney-based movement/theatre artist who is committed to devising social and conceptual process-based performance. In 2006, Katy completed a Bachelor of Performance, Theory and Practice (Honours) at UWS, for which she was awarded Honours Class 1. During her Honours year, Katy devised dancing withŠ and later in 2007 further developed the piece for the Quarterbred Festival at PACT Youth Theatre with her newly formed performance collective, stagejuice. Most recently with stagejuice, Katy co-directed ball, a short movement and sound work, at NightTime #6 at Performance Space. Katy also works extensively with version 1.0. She completed a Research and Development Residency at Performance Space with version 1.0 for Hurt and Damage in 2008, stage managed Deeply Offensive and Utterly Untrue at Performance Space in 2007 and performed in Wages of Spin, which toured nationally with Performing Lines in 2006 and was produced independently in both Sydney and Canberra in 2005. Katy has trained in Suzuki, Viewpoints, movement improvisation and Feldenkrais and she has been instructed by Martin del Amo, Shane Jones from Zen Zen Zo, Lee Wilson, Margi Kaye and Deborah Pollard. She also teaches creative movement workshops to primary school students through the Active After-School Program. Presently, Katy is co-directing another stagejuice project, in the shadows, which will debut early in 2009.
Katy Green
