Modern technology and spatial alignment have dramatically changed how our body functions and reacts to our surroundings. As we often found ourselves only standing or sitting in stiffly vertical positions, Liu and I, as passionate dancers and educators, wonder how we can facilitate our students to open up their physical possibilities to fundamentally renovate our ways of storytelling in theatre — led by breath, extensions and compressions, moving instincts, physical dynamics, and undiscovered spatial dimension of any given learning spaces. 

We believe in the significance and power of authentic storytelling in movements, and vice versa. Stories fuel movements; and movement realizes stories.Through this workshop, we aspire to provide an approachable framework of movement structures and accessible instructional vocabularies that invites both educators and students to incorporate their authentic energies and personal narratives into the classroom.

This journey will guide our participants through “Reimagine Our Body” and “Retouch the Space” where participants go on a wild fun journey to connect with their body parts and explore the space to convey their personal stories, followed by a 15 minutes unpacking discussion. Creative movements in unity with our learning space can not only contribute to theatre classrooms but also transform how educators approach their content area like ESOL, Social Studies, Science, and so forth. Liu and I hope this workshop can propose an open-ended structure for all educators to fill in with their teaching goals and unique personal experiences.