REVEAL workshops

Community Masterclass Workshop series at the Westside Theater

REVEAL: Westside Theater hosts a series of movement workshops to inspire, investigate and reveal aspects of the creative process focusing on movement and dance arts.

These workshops are connected to our season programming and designed to bring guest artists directly into the studio with the Western Montana community, from professional dancers to novice movers to interdisciplinary performers.

  • PERFORMANCE

    SEP 2024

    IMPROVISATION & COMPOSITION

    Taught by: Francesca Romo

    https://www.francescaromo.com/

  • PLAY

    OCT 2024

    CONTEMPORARY

    In this workshop participants will explore the relationship between language, gesture and theater and use "play" as a means to unlock the full-potential 

    in their movement. Improvisational tools and phrases utilized during the creation of LED's work, Kid LIghtning will be incorporated to stir imaginations and build worlds. 

    Lauren Edson of LED from Boise, ID

  • Presence

    DEC 2024

    ACTION THEATER

    Improvisational training for dancers, musicians and theatrical performers.

    This workshop integrates feeling states with physical movement to develop that elusive yet palpable quality known as presence.

    Shinichi Iova-Koga Authorized Action Theater™ Teacher from San Francisco, CA

  • place

    JAN 2025

    SCREENDANCE

    Kinesthetic Exploration of Place

    Engaging in a kinesthetic exploration of place, this workshop will guide participants through a choreographic process that can be applied to the creation of site-specific work, screendance or projection with live performance. This interdisciplinary approach investigates a sensory experience of place, and explores different feeling states of place. Throughout the workshop, participants will discover possibilities for the collaboration between movement, film and place.

    Faith Morrison from Missoula, MT

  • Fiction / Friction / Flow

    MAR 2025

    PLAYING WITH PROPS

    In this workshop, we will play with practical and poetic uses of objects, space, and selves, skirting the line between functional and fantastic. We will slow down to sense more, and speed up to access our before-thinking impulses. Can we get better at making coincidences happen? Can mistakes, awkwardness, and disruptions be our guides? Can we fully feel brief glimpses of unexpected beauty? Ideas will be layered and we will tune our presence towards togetherness.

    Rachael Lincoln & Leslie Seiters from Seattle, WA | San Francisco, CA