TADA! How to Talk and Dance at the Same Time (with Sara Parker)

TADA! - A 90-minute workshop on how to talk and dance at the same time: integrating breath, movement, image, clown, physical action and comedy to explore all elements of performance.

Geared toward professional dancers, theatre performers, and writers, this workshop offers an opportunity to develop your writing material, expand your experience of your own voice, and extend your performance palette.

The workshop includes technical work in vocal preparation, listening, guidance in physical improvisation and imagery exploration to develop a new kind of performance material that brings out the best in both. (Plus, it's super-fun!)

MT Space also invites you to stay afterwards for its coffeehouse open-mic style event TELL! Showcase your artistic talents or even what you just learned from the workshop.

Your Instructor

Sara Porter has been talking + dancing onstage for twenty years. Through building works such as Sara does a Solo, Getting to know your Fruit, and Bad Poetry: Live in [your town], Sara has developed a distinctive performance style - with humour and technical skill - that fulfils the potential of both modes of expression.

In conjunction with collaborators Katherine Duncanson and Jessie Garon - Sara has crafted a skills-based workshop to share this practice.

At Sara Porter Productions we believe that art is for everyone, both to make and to enjoy. We make performance, creative and educational projects that highlight play and exploration, based in personal storytelling.

We take a multidisciplinary & inclusive approach to art-making: integrating movement, language, ideas, science and personal experience to build artworks and creative communities that centre on humility, honesty, rigour and investigative play.

We centre our work on foregrounding voices that live outside mainstream art communities, including mothers, elderly, queer and new generation voices. The company’s work is informed by feminist and queer perspectives.

Parking at the Registry Theatre

The theatre has a small laneway for a few vehicles, mainly for personnel, artists, and renters. On weekends and weekday evenings after 5PM, the parking lot for the Region of Waterloo building next door (the one with the entrance bars) usually becomes an open lot – we advise parking there if there is space.

The bars do lower at 11PM; any cars can still exit by driving slowly toward the bars (they will rise). Free street parking can be found down Spetz and Scott streets across the road from The Registry. Paid parking is available across the street, underground at the KPL – Main Branch, and the parking garage on Duke St (the last two are free on Sundays).

Transit

Grand River Transit’s routes 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 20, 204, and the ION all have stops within a block or two of the theatre. GO Transit route 30 also stops within a block of the theatre.

Accessibility

Patrons with difficulty navigating stairs can access the theatre via an elevator at the side of the building, to the right as you face it. While there is a call button, we recommend emailing us beforehand so we can be prepared for your arrival. You can also email us with any other accommodation requests at info@mtspace.ca.