photo from Happy Theater’s “Five Spoons”

Details & Registration

• Jan 16 (Thu) 2025 | 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

• Early Bird Special: save $20 when you register by Dec 23!

• $80 Regular

• Location: Puppet Showplace Theater

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Registration Deadline: January 2

About the Class

Join Maryland-based performer, puppeteer, and stage director Natasha Mirny of Happy Theater in a movement workshop that uses the sound of your own voice to explore an authentic body “language.”

Drawing on her background in pantomime, puppetry, and physical theater, Natasha will guide participants in a simple step-by-step method that uses their voice to move the body, creating a dance centered around a word. This method can help process challenging emotions, be used by actors to support their spoken lines, and can help you access your full range of expressive motion and discover the gift of creating dances — even if you have no prior movement or acting experience.

We all have a unique body, and this workshop unlocks the ability to discover your own body language!

Recommended for adults and teens ages 13+

Check out this video of a past workshop:

About the Instructor

Natasha Mirny is a teaching artist, performer, stage director, and founder of Happy Theater. She is currently working as a teaching artist and Arts Integration specialist at several theaters and educational programs in the Washington DC area — Inspired Child, Arts for Learning, and Wolf Trap — designing and implementing programs for teachers and students in public schools in DC, VA and MD. Her background is in pantomime, puppetry, and physical theater. For the past five years Natasha has devised and directed ten shows for children from 0 to 12 years old. Her show for young audiences, that she wrote and directed for Arts On The Horizon, was nominated for Helen Hayes award in 2019 as an “outstanding theater for young audiences” production.