WORKSHOPS

**Jean Hamilton Floor Barre Technique: OPEN-LEVEL Course**
**with Sophia Treanor and Deborah Black**

March 25 - May 3
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays 10am - 11:151m EST
**A synchronous online 6-week course (18 classes)**
Building upon the Foundations in Jean Hamilton Floor Barre, this course is customized to address the specific needs of each student. Close attention is given to each participant’s physical process, growth and goals. This is an ongoing course, with the opportunity for students to train year-round within a supportive community.
Synchronous participation in encouraged for the greatest benefit, but recordings are available for asynchronous participation as well.
Enrollment is limited to 12 participants so that Deborah and Sophia can provide in-depth individual coaching and feedback in real time.
*Previous experience required: To enroll, students must have either taken the Foundations in Jean Hamilton Floor Barre Technique Course or have trained with another Jean Hamilton Floor Barre Technique teacher.
***Tuition: a sliding scale of $285 - $595***
**Email us here to register, and with any questions!**
***A note on the sliding scale: As a general rule, the lower end of the scale is for the unemployed and freelance artists whose livelihoods have been disrupted due to the pandemic and BIPOC artists whose livelihoods have been historically and systematically threatened. The higher end of the scale is for those who haven't lost employment and aren't worried about making ends meet. If you receive institutional funding for continuing education purposes, please pay at the higher end of the scale. By paying at the higher end of the sliding scale, you make it possible for us to support our community in this way! You can pay any amount between those two sums that feels right and comfortable to you. No questions asked.

**SOMATIC PERFORMER WORKSHOPS OF SUMMER ‘24**
**WITH WENDELL BEAVERS AND ERIKA BERLAND**

**NYC : June 7, 8, 9 from 10:00-1:00 & 2:00-5:00 at** **Open Arts Studio**
**Differentiating Systems: Experiential Anatomy Theory and Practice**
**Movement Research & Psychophysical Discovery**
An introduction to the experiential anatomy work of BMC(R) and its application to creating movement vocabulary and extended psychophysical range. We will differentiate muscles, bones, glands, fluids and the nervous system utilizing visualization, breath, sound and movement. Our goal is to extend our range of movement qualities and psychophysical expression. Open to all levels of experience.
$300
For Registration and Information please email us here.
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**9th Annual Somatic Performer Intensive**
**North Adams, MA : July 15-20 at** **Eclipse Mill**
**Developmental Movement and Experiential Anatomy: Review and Immersive Practice**
Mornings 10:00 –1:00 Developmental Technique(TM)
Identifying the developmental actions of yield, push, reach, grasp and pull as the underlying fundamentals of developmental movement, we will explore the basic patterns of locomotion, from pre-spinal, navel radiated states through crawling to vertical, embodied expressions in space. We will improvise with these materials, individually and in small groups and investigate setting material from these somatic sources.
Afternoons 2:00-5:00—Experiential Anatomy
Differentiating the systems, researching full spectrum expression from pure movement to arousing and channeling psychophysical imagery into movement, sound, story and image.
$650
For Registration and Information please email us here.

Previous workshops

**Six days of six viewpoints workshop with Sophia Treanor and Deborah Black**
*This workshop has been cancelled*

**May 6 - 11** **in Brooklyn, NY**
In this week-long workshop, **we will investigate the creative process from the basis of a liberated and awakened bodymind.** The days will begin with Hamilton Floor Barre*, a guided physical practice to **nourish and awaken the moving body**, and extend into explorations of the perceptual frames of the Six Viewpoints**. There we will ask – what am I taking for granted about the times, shapes, movements, emotions, story/logics, and spaces? Through these focused awarenesses, we will grapple towards the unknown, and access uncertainty as a portal to an infinite and not-yet defined source.
Naming these sources “raw materials” will become a way to **sustain ourselves and find research within the Piano and Reification Laboratories of the Six Viewpoints Theory**. These laboratories will guide us in and out of the unknown, help us retrieve findings, and share them with an audience.
Participants will be guided to identify their own artistic questions throughout the week to support their creative process. Sophia and Deborah will offer strategies, coaching, and feedback methods to amplify individual and collaborative inquiries. Wild, subtle, and anarchistic improvisations and compositions will ensue, activating the unlimited possibilities of what art can be and where it comes from. The week will culminate with a public sharing for the surrounding community.
**The Schedule:** Monday - Saturday 9 - 6pm. We will have an open studios event at 4pm on the final Saturday.
**Where:** Open Arts Studio : 68 Jay Street 605A Brooklyn, NY
**Tuition:** $550-$985 sliding scale***
**Register:** Fill out this form! Feel free to email us with any questions.

**conversation with artists,**
**facilitated by susannah wilson**

**Two series offered on zoom:**
**Mondays 6-7pm EST — Feb 12, 19, 26**
and **Thursdays 1-2pm EST — Feb 15, 22, 29**
You may have seen these sessions previously offered by my fabulous friend and mentor, Deborah Black. I learned this technique from her, and she has generously encouraged me to facilitate this new series.
Here’s the deal: you commit to three conversations with two other artists. Each session will be centered around our artistic questions. These questions can be *anything* that you are working on or are in relationship to.
For instance—What’s my aesthetic? Do I have one? How can I create more space for whimsy in my practice? Is there a place where pottery and performance meet?
These questions do not have to be ‘coherent’. What matters is that they are interesting to you. If you’re worried you don’t *have* any artistic questions, there’s space for you too. Trust me, the questions will arrive.
My role is to be a facilitator of these conversations. I won’t be providing advice or answers, but rather encouraging you to probe deeper into inquiry.
The series is offered on a sliding scale of **$75-$200**.
Feel free to reach out to Susannah (susannahmtwilson@gmail.com) with any questions or sign up here!
Susannah is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in performance and ceramics. She was a member of SITI Company’s 2018-19 Conservatory, and is a graduate of Emerson College, where they received a BFA in Acting. Susannah has performed locally with Target Margin Theater, One Year Lease, and Living Room Theatre, as well as regionally with Commonwealth Shakespeare, Central Square Theater and many others. You can find her ceramic work on their website at www.stonewarexsw.com. Susannah lives in Brooklyn with her ancient cat Pussy Willow.

**SIX VIEWPOINTS WEEKEND INTENSIVE**
**WITH RIA SAMARTZI**

**February 10-11** in London at Omnibus Theatre
A two day intensive workshop for performance makers inspired by the Six Viewpoints theory & practice. Over two days we will spend time practicing within the deconstructed framework/s of space, shape, time, emotion, movement and story and examine their expanded possibilities. Participants will be given space to reflect on their practice and invited to consider what it is they may take for granted in the making of performance. We will introduce working within horizontal hierarchies and explore alternative departure points for creation.

This workshop is for theatre, dance and performance artists of all disciplines, including directors, designers, dramaturgs, stage managers and technicians and anything in between.

No prior Viewpoints experience is necessary.
Please wear comfortable clothes and footwear you can move in.

Times: 10:30 - 17:30
Fee*: £150 (General), £120 (Concession)
Book your ticket here to register.

*If you would like to attend but the above pricing is prohibitive for whatever reason or have specific access needs please get in touch.
Photo by Alex Baker

**SHAPE _time… + LoGiCa:**
**Six Viewpoints Process Weekend with Deborah Black and Sophia Treanor**

*This workshop has been cancelled*
February 16 - 19, 2024 in Brooklyn, NY
Open Arts Studio, DUMBO 68 Jay Street, Studio 605A, Brooklyn NY 11201
“From tiny experiences we build cathedrals.”
-Orhan Pamuk
This workshop is for performers and artists who are interested in recovering their love of process. We will aspire to unearth the meaning in the making. We are approaching the question of “Why?” inside out in order to uplift and honor the artistic sensitivities of our lesser-known selves and our audiences.
Originated by dancer/choreographer, Mary Overlie, The Six Viewpoints deconstruct the materials used in performance: space, time, shape, emotion, story, and movement, opening up their infinite possibilities. The study of the Viewpoints introduces performance makers to a clear vocabulary of materials to spark research or new perspectives on their own work.
Entering into the Laboratory of the Matrix through the materials of shape and time, one may stumble into pockets of space, threads of movement, scents of emotion, branches of story. Let’s hang out in these accidents and ask: How might the study of shape and time reveal subtle and surprising stories? Logics we have not met before?
In this weekend-long workshop, we follow the path of deconstruction to depart from closed systems of composition to open ourselves to both aesthetic and meaningful experiences we could not have constructed.
We welcome all dancers, actors, physical theater artists and directors. We welcome makers of all kinds who are interested in what they might glean from the body, our surrounding environment, subconscious, patience, and boredom.
Tuition: a sliding scale of $385 - $685. (True cost: $535)***
**To register, please fill out this form**. Feel free to email us with any questions!
**Weekend Schedule**
**Friday, February 16** 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Welcome, and we begin the research
**Saturday, February 17** 9:30 am - 6:00 pm
**Sunday, February 18** 9:30 am - 2:00 pm
…with an optional field trip in the evening. *Field trip ticket not included in tuition. Show TBD*
**Monday, February 19** 9:30 am - 6:00 pm
***A note on the sliding scale: As a general rule, the lower end of the scale is for the unemployed and freelance artists whose livelihoods have been disrupted due to the pandemic and BIPOC artists whose livelihoods have been historically and systematically threatened. The higher end of the scale is for those who haven't lost employment and aren't worried about making ends meet. If you receive institutional funding for continuing education purposes, please pay at the higher end of the scale. By paying at the higher end of the sliding scale, you make it possible for us to support our community in this way! You can pay any amount between those two sums that feels right and comfortable to you. No questions asked.

**The Six Viewpoints: Examining the Materials of Performance**
**A Weekend Workshop with Roel Swanenberg and Arjan Gebraad**

**25 & 26 November 2023, Sat & Sun 10 am -17 pm (CET)**
**DansBrabant – Club Soda, Goudenregenstraat 15-06, 5014 AS Tilburg, The Netherlands**
During this two-day workshop we will investigate all Six Viewpoints by exploring the vocabulary of the basic materials that are found in the creation of all art: Space, Shape, Time, Emotion, Movement and Story. Training the Six Viewpoints develops flexibility, articulation, strength in movement and allows a group of performers to function together spontaneously and intuitively. Next to this, spending time in the rehearsal room researching Viewpoints will develop your overall understanding of your own individual practice as a performer. This approach is widely used as a movement training and philosophical practice and we invite all professional performers, actors, dancers, theatre makers, choreographers, visual artists, musicians and art students who wish to cultivate the art of presence and the fundamentals of the art of theatre. We will equip participants with a basic understanding of the principles of the work and how to apply them in contemporary performance.
**Instructor Bios:**
**Arjan Gebraad** works as a performer, director, teacher and mentor in several disciplines like theatre, dance and circus. He specializes in site-specific projects and physical theatre. He worked at/with Codarts, Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Toneelacademie Maastricht, Zuidelijk Toneel, Toneelgroep Maastricht and Factorium Tilburg. He is a member of the artist collective Tilburg Cowboys. He has a MA in Cultural Studies and a BA in Theatre and Education.

**Roel Swanenberg** is a Belgium-based performing artist, director and teacher. Together with Wanda Eyckerman they run their own company ‘kinderenvandevilla’, making theatre for all ages, site-specific plays and facilitating workshops. He has collaborated with many people in TV, Film and Theatre including: Martin Butler, Mary Overlie, Lotte van den Berg, Tuning People, Artemis, Het Zuidelijk Toneel, KETNET and het Nieuwstedelijk. He has a BA in Theatre and a MA in Audiovisual Arts.
Arjan and Roel have collaborated on many occasions: making plays, shooting movies and co-teaching. They have trained extensively in Viewpoints, both with SITI Company and Mary Overlie. They are ambassadors of the Mary Overlie Legacy Project, sharing her work with practitioners across Europe.
**Cost:** Regular: € 150, - | Early bird: €125, - (deadline 3 November 2023) | Students: €100,-
**HOW TO APPLY** Send an email to training.ensemble.nederland@gmail.com (RE: weekend workshop), with a short, accurate resume and a short motivation in which you describe why you want to attend the workshop. The training will be held in English when international artists are taking part. For more info: http://www.facebook.com/t.e.n.platform

**Six Viewpoints Immersion: Performance Practice and Research**
**A week-long workshop with Deborah Black and Sophia Treanor**

**October 9-13, 2023 in Brooklyn, NY**
*In this week-long workshop,* ***we will investigate the creative process from the basis of a liberated and awakened bodymind.*** *The days will begin with Hamilton Floor Barre***, a guided physical practice to* ***nourish and awaken the moving body****, and extend into explorations of the perceptual frames of the Six Viewpoints***. There we will ask – what am I taking for granted about the times, shapes, movements, emotions, story/logics, and spaces? Through these focused awarenesses, we will grapple towards the unknown, and access uncertainty as a portal to an infinite and not-yet defined source.
*Naming these sources “raw materials” will become a way to* ***sustain ourselves and find research within the Piano and Reification Laboratories of the Six Viewpoints Theory****. These laboratories will guide us in and out of the unknown, help us retrieve findings, and share them with an audience.*
Participants will be guided to identify their own artistic questions throughout the week to support their creative process. Sophia and Deborah will offer strategies, coaching, and feedback methods to amplify individual and collaborative inquiries. Wild, subtle, and anarchistic improvisations and compositions will ensue, activating the unlimited possibilities of what art can be and where it comes from. The week will culminate with a public sharing for the surrounding community.
***Where:*** Open Arts Studio
68 Jay Street 605A Brooklyn, NY
*When:* October 9-13, 2023
Monday - Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 5pm + 7 - 9pm public sharing
***Tuition:*** *$400 - $700 sliding scale********
***To sign up, please fill out this form.*** ***If you have any questions, please feel free to*** ***email Deborah and Sophia here.***
*Photo by AlexBakerPhotoz from the SomaticPerformer ~ Mary Overlie Legacy Project Workshops, Eclipse Mill, North Adams MA*

**Doing the Unnecessary: Making Connections through Deconstruction**
**with Valerie McCann**

***Where: London Performance Studios***
***When: Mondays 3 July, 5-8 PM / 10 July, 5-8 PM***
Doing the Unnecessary: Making Connections through Deconstruction is a new class hosted at London Performance Studios.

Rooted in Mary Overlie's Six Viewpoints Theory and Practice, we will explore the internal landscape in relation to the larger universe of performance using the languages of Space, Shape, Time, Emotion, Movement and Story. Through somatic research and collaborative experimentation, workshop participants will interrogate deconstruction, differentiation and discernment as tools to discover unknown and unexpected capacities in composition and performance practice.
***Cost:*** *PWYC*
***Visit us here more info*** *and feel free to* ***email Valerie here with any questions.***
*Photo by AlexBakerPhotoz from the SomaticPerformer ~ Mary Overlie Legacy Project Workshops, Eclipse Mill, North Adams MA*

**SIX VIEWPOINTS : A SATURDAY SCHOOL**

**with sophia treanor and deborah black**

**Saturdays March 25th - May 6th * 11am - 1pm**

These classes are a foray into the deep deconstruction particle practices of the Six Viewpoints and Jean Hamilton’s Floor Barre. Our efforts will be thrown into minding the gap: what is here that I have not yet consciously perceived?
The days will begin with Hamilton Floor Barre, a guided physical practice to nourish and awaken the moving body, and extend into explorations of the perceptual frames of the Six Viewpoints. Wild, subtle, and anarchistic improvisations and compositions will ensue.
**Where:** Open Arts Studio : 68 Jay Street 605A Brooklyn, NY
**Drop in or sign up for the 5 class series.**
**Drop in:** offered on a sliding scale $15 - $35/class**
**Five class series:** offered on a sliding scale of $80 - $200

**Jean hamilton floor barre: an online introduction**
**with sophia treanor and deborah black**

April 3 - 21, 2023
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays 11:30- 12:45 EDT
**A synchronous online 3-week course (9 classes)**
Gifted by Mary Overlie to many, Jean Hamilton Floor Barre Technique is suitable for all people (of all ages and experience levels) who seek to create more ease, strength, length, and movement possibilities in their bodies.
**The classes are each designed to:**
**-empower the body-mind with awakened body awareness**
**-discover a greater sense of possibility in movement**
**-improve mobility and joint health**
**-regulate the nervous system**
**-provide long-lasting recovery from injury or strain**
**-find enjoyment in moving in unexpected ways**
Over the years, students have regularly reported a decrease in chronic pain, the ability to perform with more ease and a greater sense of vitality overall.
No previous experience or dance training required to enroll. Enrollment is limited to 12 participants so that Deborah and Sophia can provide in-depth individual coaching and feedback in real time.
Synchronous participation in encouraged for the greatest benefit, but recordings are available for asynchronous participation as well.
*This course is a prerequisite for Sophia and Deborah’s ongoing Open-Level Jean Hamilton Floor Barre Technique course, also held Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays for continuing students.
Fee: $125 - $275 sliding scale
**Email us here to register, and with any questions!**

**Examining the Materials of Performance | Series 2**
**With Ria Samartzi**

**Rosemary Branch Theatre:** 2 Shepperton Road, N1 3DT London, UK
**March 4th, 11th, 18th & 25th, 2023** **from 11:00 - 13:00**
**Price: Pay What You Can - £5, £10 (recommended), £15**
**A weekly workshop series for performance makers inspired by the Six Viewpoints theory and practice.**
Originated by choreographer Mary Overlie, the Six Viewpoints is a study that establishes and expands the base of performance by inquiring into the vocabulary of the basic materials that are found in the creation of all art: space, shape, time, emotion, movement and story. Following on from the January series, we will continue to (re)discover and explore the materials and practice working within horizontal hierarchies.
These sessions are for theatre, dance and performance artists of all disciplines, including directors, designers, dramaturgs, stage managers and technicians - all welcome.
No movement experience is necessary. Please wear comfortable clothes and footwear you can move in. Participants can attend a single session, entire series or drop in as able.
**Register in advance by clicking here.**
**If you have any questions, please reach out to Ria here.**

**Six Viewpoints Entrances and Exits**
**with NICOLÁS NOREÑA**

**At the** **Terry Knickerbocker Studio**
68 34th Street. 4th Floor
Brooklyn, NYC 11232
**February 25 - 26, 2023**
Saturday 2-430pm
Sunday 10am- 630pm (with lunch break)
$350
**Making your own work from the elements of reality.**
In this workshop we will use the framework of Mary Overlie’s Six Viewpoints as an entryway into making original work. Through basic compositional exercises, collaborative experiments and repurposing of ready-made text and movement, we will explore different ways of approaching creativity, imagination and theater-making. Actors, often denied the ability of being artists, can at times limit their creativity to constraints imposed by directors/ playwrights/ choreographers etc. This training connects the actor directly with theater as a medium, by connecting their bodies with their intelligence, creativity and freedom.
**To register for the workshop, click here.**

**Space Oddity: come back to your experience of reality**
A *Six Viewpoints Weekend Immersion* inspired by David Bowie:
Wake up, then Journey into the Unknown.
Stay a While. It’s a No-Oppressor Zone.
**with Deborah Black and Sophia TreanoR**

January 14 + 15, 2023
11am-5pm
*"I was out of my gourd...it got the song flowing."* - David Bowie
In this workshop, we will investigate the creative process from the basis of a liberated and awakened body-mind. Our efforts will be thrown into accessing the unknown, and accessing uncertainty as a portal to an infinite source. Learning to sustain oneself and one’s research beyond the named world germinates work that may, at times, send a ripple through a collective consciousness.
**Where: Open Arts Studio :** 68 Jay Street 605A Brooklyn, NY
**Tuition:** $245 - $465 sliding scale***
Are you interested in our work/study program? We are looking for administrative aid, and can offer this workshop and regular floor barre classes in exchange. Reach out if you’d like to start a conversation about this.
**Become human. Think for yourself. Make choices. Bring the community back together again.**
**Register for the weekend immersion by clicking here.**
**Questions? Email Sophia and Deborah here.**

**Entry Points: A Foundations Intensive**
**With Estela Garcia**

**Dell’Arte International**
January 9th - 20th, 2023
Week 1: Mon-Fri, 6PM - 9:30PM; Saturday 9AM-1PM
Week 2: Tues-Fri 6PM - 9:30PM
The training will serve as provocations to give participants new entry points to strengthen their acting process, get into their bodies and become more present actors and get comfortable generating new material in an ensemble. Students will devise work and present their work for feedback.
Sessions are planned to utilize movement, text and theatrical mask. Instruction styles will vary between master classes, discussions, collaboration time, creative writing, acting practices, and physical improvisation. Techniques used will include Presence Work, Character Mask, the Liz Lerman method, Mary Overlie’s Six Viewpoints, and Laban movement for text.
A Los Angeles born native, Estela Garcia is a performer, movement coach, deviser, community engagement specialist, mask maker, teacher and tinkerer of materials. In addition to being Movement faculty at CalArts, Garcia is a resident teaching artist for Center Theatre Group. She received her MFA from Dell’Arte in ensemble-based physical theatre. As a teacher Estela strives to create a brave space where students can nurture vulnerability, risk and confidence as storytellers. Estela believes all students come with an innate capacity to tell stories through movement. Through her approach to the work she helps them identify habits, develop new skills and articulate their body’s voice. She is committed to anti-racism and a non-hierarchical teaching style where diverse bodies can thrive.
**Deadline to register is Dec. 8.** **Visit Dell’Arte’s page here for more information and registration instructions.**

**In person! Jean Hamilton Floor Barre Technique**
**With Sophia Treanor and Deborah Black**

**DUMBO, Brooklyn**
**Saturdays: 11am - 1pm**
**November 19, December 3, December 10**
**Open Level**
Drop in: $15 - $30 sliding scale per class
3-part series: $40 - $80 sliding scale
Drop in or sign up for all three!
**Jean Hamilton Floor Barre Technique is suitable for all bodies** who seek to create more ease, strength, length, and movement possibilities in their bodies. Close attention is given to each participant’s physical process, growth and goals. Students have regularly reported a decrease in chronic pain, the ability to perform with more freedom and a greater sense of vitality overall.
**Where:** Open Arts Studio at 68 Jay Street 605A. This building is fully accessible. All are welcome!
Email us here to register and with any inquiries.

**Jean Hamilton Floor Barre Technique: Foundations Course**
**with Sophia Treanor and Deborah Black**

November 28 - December 16, 2022
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays 11:30- 12:45 ET
**A synchronous online 3-week course (9 classes)**
Gifted by Mary Overlie to many, Jean Hamilton Floor Barre Technique is suitable for all people (of all ages and experience levels) who seek to create more ease, strength, length, and movement possibilities in their bodies.
The Hamilton Floor Barre is based on variation inside a fixed set of practices. The variation provides the opportunity to explore the elasticity and weight shift in the body within and out of each joint. In the Six Viewpoints curriculum, Hamilton Floor Barre Technique is considered one of the basic practices of noticing News of a Difference. It works on the level of the nervous system, creating connections and organization between muscles, bones, fascia and conscious awareness. Slowly waking up more subtle neural connections with the smaller muscles surrounding the joints of the body can initiate re-patterning and a stabilization of our incredible architecture. Over the years, students have regularly reported a decrease in chronic pain and a greater sense of vitality.
No previous experience or dance training required to enroll. Enrollment is limited to 12 participants so that Deborah and Sophia can provide in-depth individual coaching and feedback in real time.
Synchronous participation in encouraged for the greatest benefit, but recordings are available for asynchronous participation as well.
*This course is a prerequisite for Sophia and Deborah’s ongoing Open-Level Jean Hamilton Floor Barre Technique course, also held Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays for continuing students.
Fee: $125 - $275 sliding scale
**Email us here to register, and with any questions!**

**Virtual Viewpoints Round Up**
**LED BY NICOLÁS NOREÑA**

**postponed but coming soon: a Sunday** **1pm - 3pm ET on Zoom**
Suggested donation of $10-$30. All are welcome regardless of ability to donate!
This monthly virtual community gathering will include an hour of practice and improvisation led by a community member, followed by open time for reflections, exchange, gabbing, experiments, shout-outs and whatever else is needed!
Each month, a different community member will lead the practice. The donations will first provide a teaching fee for the facilitator, and any extra donations will contribute to the Mary Overlie Legacy Project’s operations costs (like running this website and digitizing Mary’s archive!)
We are very excited to provide an opportunity for exchange across our global community! Questions? Please email us.
**Register here.**

**Six Viewpoints Intensive**
**with Gabriela Petrov**

**IN-PERSON: TORONTO**
**Intergalactic Arts Collective**
**Mon-Fri, August 22-26th, 10am-1pm**
During this workshop we will explore all Six Viewpoints as originated by Mary Overlie: Space, Time, Shape, Movement, Emotion and Story. You will learn the fundamental tools and vocabulary from this approach and gain a deeper sense of spatial awareness and a more embodied understanding and experience of composition. This approach is widely used by performers as movement training, but can also support the work of directors, designers, visual artists, musicians, architects, animators and anyone else who could benefit from a deeper understanding of composition, embodiment and spatial awareness. No experience necessary!
Early Bird Rate (until July 14th, midnight): $200 Generous Bird Rate: $250
With **Gabriela Petrov**, who has over 10 years of practice in Mary Overlie's Six Viewpoints and trained with several teachers including Wendell Beavers. She has over 6 years of somatic training in Body-Mind Centering® and is pursuing certification as a Somatic Movement Educator with support from the Canada Council for the Arts. She did her MFA specializing in Viewpoints practice and pedagogy at Naropa Univerity in Boulder, Colorado and currently teaches the Viewpoints and other performance practices as an instructor at Concordia University. She also has a sustained mindfulness/meditation practice which she encountered through the Shambhala lineage. Gabriela first encountered the Viewpoints in 2011 with Leslie Baker, a student of Wendell Beavers. Since then, she deepened her practice by studying with Wendell Beavers and other teachers including Barbara Dilley, an early collaborator of Mary Overlie. Gabi had the joy of connecting with Mary during the celebration of her life and work at Danspace in 2019. Gabi uses the Viewpoints to support her in her everyday life, artistic work and somatic practices.
**Click here for more info.**
Questions? Reach Gabi here.

**Six Viewpoints Workshops at Vienna’s ImpulsTanz**
**With SOPHIA TREANOR**

**IN-PERSON: VIENNA**
**July 18 - 22 :** **Six Viewpoints, Liberating the Materials** :
M - F 14:20 - 17:20 | Fee: € 215.00
**July 23 + 24 :** **Six Viewpoints, Horizontal Wilderness** :
Sat + Sun 10:30 - 16:30 | Fee: € 140.00
These workshops focus on discovering how to liberate the materials of Space, Shape, Time, Emotion, Movement and Story. We will study how they function on stage and how to create with them. We will briefly focus on locating these materials in a non-hierarchical manner, then move on to performance experiments and compositions.
In entering this work the artist finds that they are anchored in 3-D reality and free to make dance or theatre as it unfolds before them. In this undertaking the artist is challenged to develop self-guidance, the discipline of keeping focused and the ability to shift perspective over and over again. Underlying training such as Contact Improvisation and Jean Hamilton's *Floor Barre Technique* educates the instrument in depth without culturing patterns of movement. This type of approach develops availability to sense rather than to produce.
Drawing on the work of Mary Overlie, these workshops will introduce a horizontal frame of mind. In the horizontal, we may find a greater sense of creative possibility and nourishment for our relationship with our environment—along with a fluid interchange between internal and external.
**For more information and to register for the courses, click here.** **Any questions? you can email Sophia here.**

**Four-week Six Viewpoints Course**
**with Deborah Black**

**IN-PERSON: NYC**
**Mondays 6-8pm, July 11, 18, 25, Aug 1**

Come together weekly this summer to put into practice how you want to be in the room with others. We will work within the laboratories of the Six Viewpoints including:

—noticing the News of Difference
—deconstructing Shape, Space, Time, Emotion, Movement, and Story
—working with flexible hierarchies
—Doing the unnecessary
—Practicing becoming an Original Anarchist

Each evening will include a full body warm-up, solo and collaborative improvising, tools to connect the Six Viewpoints to your own creative work, and discussions about the complex work of having a body, agency, and being human on this planet.

$145-$265 Sliding Scale (discount available if combined with the Conversations for ARTISTS and/or the online PRACTICE Sessions - please email Deborah to discuss)

Sign-up here!

Limited to 10 fully vaccinated participants. If infections are high in NYC, a rapid day-of test will also be required.

**8th Somatic Performer Intensive**
**with Wendell Beavers and Erika Berland**

**June 4--10, 2022**
**North Adams, MA**
*NEW VENUE:* Eclipse Mill Artists Community https://eclipsemill.com/
243 Union Street North Adams, MA (Down the street from MASS MoCA)
For registration information: somaticperformer@gmail.com
**Cultivating Potentiality**
**Vibration, Sponging, Pulsation, Navel Radiation; The Pre-Vertebrate Patterns of Developmental Movement**
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**The Pre-Spinal patterns create the ground for enhanced presence, clear expressive action and original movement response.**
**The workshop will also reference related anatomical systems, their role in creative process and building performance technique.**
With **Wendell Beavers,** Founder of Naropa University's MFA Theater; Contemporary Performance Program Founding Faculty of NYU's Experimental Theater Wing and **Erika Berland,** founding faculty of Naropa's MFA, Certified Practitioner of Body Mind Centering(R), somatic educator and meditation instructor in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage.
Beginning Sat. June 4 at 1PM—Ending Fri. June 10 at 1PM | 10-1 & 2-5 Daily Sessions
Fee: $450

**May’s Virtual Viewpoints Round Up**
**LED BY Isa Sánchez Barrena**

MAY 22nd, 2022
11am-1pm ET on Zoom
Suggested donation of $10-$30. All are welcome regardless of ability to donate!
This monthly virtual community gathering will include an hour of practice and improvisation led by a community member, followed by open time for reflections, exchange, gabbing, experiments, shout-outs and whatever else is needed!
Each month, a different community member will lead the practice. The donations will first provide a teaching fee for the facilitator, and any extra donations will contribute to the Mary Overlie Legacy Project’s operations costs (like running this website and digitizing Mary’s archive!)
We are very excited to provide an opportunity for exchange across our global community! Questions? Please email us.

**An in-person Six Viewpoints workshop**
**with Deborah Black**

May 14 - 15, 2022 1pm - 5pm
Dumbo, Brooklyn
$165-$315 sliding scale
Deborah is so excited to be offering her first in-person workshop (since 2019) this Spring in Dumbo, Brooklyn, and welcoming you into this space with a handful of practitioners to practice playing “pool on an egg-shaped table” with one another.

After years of training on-line, how do we come back into a room together? What can we notice about the space between us? Our emotions, our stories? What movement wants to emerge? What timings are demanded?

Mary Overlie used this metaphor of playing pool on an egg-shaped table to examine our relationships with one another in a space where so much might be happening. Can we honor our own needs and desires while working in the room with others? Can we start to create a dialogue across differences?

Limited to ten (fully vaccinated) participants.

**Jean Hamilton Floor Barre Technique: Foundations Course**
**with Sophia Treanor and Deborah Black**

MAY 9 - May 27th, 2022
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays 11:30- 12:45 ET
An online 3-week course (9 classes)
Gifted by Mary Overlie to many, Jean Hamilton Floor Barre Technique is suitable for dancers, actors, and regular folks who seek to create more ease, strength, length, and movement possibilities in their bodies.
In the Six Viewpoints curriculum, Hamilton Floor Barre Technique is considered one of the basic practices of noticing News of a Difference. It works on the level of the nervous system, creating connections and organization between muscles, bones, fascia and conscious awareness. Slowly waking up more subtle neural connections with the smaller muscles surrounding the joints of the body can initiate repatterning and a stabilization of our incredible architecture. Over the years, students have regularly reported a decrease in chronic pain and a greater sense of vitality.
No previous experience or dance training required to enroll. Enrollment is limited to 12 participants so that Deborah and Sophia can provide in-depth individual coaching and feedback in real time.
Fee: $125 - $275 sliding scale

**The Perception Lab**
With Deborah Black

Online course
Tuesdays 1-3:30PM EST
April 19th - May 24th
Limited to 8 participants
$245-$475 sliding scale
This is a physical and perceptual making and performance SPACE. We will be using the Six Viewpoints and postmodern choreography and scoring techniques to encourage our work from the subconscious. We will learn to go a little deeper in the unknown, find new ways to listen to ourselves and others. We will wake up just a little bit more to what wants and needs to be expressed through us - in this moment - as art.
Each class includes a warm-up based on Jean Hamilton’s Floor Barre Technique and a Six Viewpoints practice plus time for developing your own process. It is suitable for beginner and advanced artist-practitioners. There will also be opportunities to collaborate and share your work.
Apply by April 8th at 11:59pm EST.

**May’s Virtual Viewpoints Round Up**

LED BY SOPHIA TREANOR
APRIL 10, 2022 : 11am-1pm ET on Zoom
Suggested donation of $10-$30. All are welcome regardless of ability to donate!
This monthly virtual community gathering will include an hour of practice and improvisation led by a community member, followed by open time for reflections, exchange, gabbing, experiments, shout-outs and whatever else is needed!
Each month, a different community member will lead the practice. The donations will first provide a teaching fee for the facilitator, and any extra donations will contribute to the Mary Overlie Legacy Project’s operations costs (like running this website and digitizing Mary’s archive!)
We are very excited to provide an opportunity for exchange across our global community! Questions? Please email us.

FINDINGS AT THE EDGES OF THE MATERIALS

AN IN-PERSON SIX VIEWPOINTS INTENSIVE ON THE SSTEMS

TAUGHT BY: NICOLÁS NOREÑA AND TIMOTHY SCOTT

OCT 30, NOV 6, NOV 13, NOV 20, DEC 4, DEC 11

at STUDIO MAYA

603 Bergen St. Brooklyn, NY

12pm-4pm

Total of 24 hours

fee: $400

In this workshop we will dedicate 4 hours to thoroughly study each Material , or SSTEMS: Space, Shape, Time, Emotion, Movement, Story. We will study each material in relation to the other five by exploring their meeting coordinates: where does Story meet Space? How does Space meet Shape? What is the relationship between Space and Emotion? How does Time affect Space? etc.

By tracing the edges of these materials through their relationships, we will arrive at a complex definition of their territory, have a comprehensive idea of how they have been traditionally organized, and experiment with what new possibilities exist in their composition.

This exploration is rooted in 12 years of work with Mary Overlie and stems out of our own unique curiosity with this philosophy and technique. Through a combination of Mary’s original practices, perceptual exercises, movement scores, improvisational explorations and compositional experiments, we will venture together into a deep interrogation of the far edges of this work.

We will cover some introductory Six Viewpoints training, however this course is designed for those who have had some previous experience with Mary's Six Viewpoints. If you are unsure of whether or not this course is right for you, or an appropriate place for you to start, please reach out to us and we can asses this together.

Attendance for this workshop will be in in person and capped at 10 students. We require students to be vaccinated.

To sign up email: themillionunderscores@gmail.com

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Hamilton Floor Barre Technique

3-week course (9 classes)

Taught By: Sophia Treanor and Deborah Black

Where: online

Nov 29 - Dec 17, 2021
Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays
11:30- 12:45 ET
$125 - $275 sliding scale

Taught and practiced by Mary Overlie and gifted to many, Jean Hamilton Floor Barre Technique is suitable for dancers, actors, and regular folks who seek to create more ease, strength, length, and movement possibilities in their bodies.

In the Six Viewpoints curriculum, Hamilton Floor Barre Technique is considered one of the basic practices of noticing News of a Difference. It works on the level of the nervous system, creating connections and organization between muscles, bones, fascia and conscious awareness. Slowly waking up more subtle neural connections with the smaller muscles surrounding the joints of the body can initiate repatterning and a stabilization of our incredible architecture. Over the years, students have regularly reported a decrease in chronic pain and a greater sense of vitality.

No previous experience or dance training required to enroll. Enrollment is limited to 12 participants so that Deborah and Sophia can provide in-depth individual coaching and feedback in real time.