ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

This workshop is an exploration of stories as containers, as multiplicitous assemblages of beings and voices. Many of these voices have been muted as we have followed the simple, single, straight-lined Hero story. In this workshop we will work with fairy tale and myth to see how we can leave this mono-voice and get tangled in the burbling, murmuring, sirening realities of all the others in such a story. How we can allow these voices to unmute and speak through us. How we can find a way to tell a different kind of polyphonic story. We will explore the craft and research of storytelling: how to deepen our connection with our own breath, voice and imagination; how to explore both verbal and non-verbal ways of telling; and how to approach story in more embodied ways, with a more embodied voice.

Instruction will be given in English but participants are deeply encouraged to work in their mother tongue/ any other tongue/s that they would like to work in.

WHO'S IT FOR?
**For storytellers, theatre-makers, musicians, writers, dancers, directors, dramaturgs, creators from any field – all those who enjoy moving and have a curiosity and interest in storytelling**

DATES, TIMES & HOURS
Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 October 2023
10:00 – 17:00 each day, including a lunch break (total 12 hours training)

VENUE
Dock11, Kastanienallee 79, 10435 Berlin
Nearest Tram stop: Schwedter Strasse for M1 and 12 trams
Nearest U-Bahn: Eberswalder Strasse U2 or Rosenthaler Platz U8
https://dock11-berlin.de/en/tanzschule/service/contact-directions

FEES
150€ OR 175€ OR 200€
We would like to keep the workshop accessible, while covering our costs, so we offer you three price options. Please pick the amount that feels best for you from these three options. 
You must buy a ticket in advance and places are limited - so please reserve your ticket to ensure you can join us!

ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
Cat Gerrard (she/her; GB/DE) is a storyteller, dramaturg, puppeteer and facilitator from the UK, based in Berlin. She trained in acting at Drama Studio London and later in collaborative performance-making at LISPA (now Arthaus Berlin). Cat’s work is multi-disciplinary and always created in an intuitive, collaborative, devised process. At the heart of Cat’s work is story – from the personal to the mythic, the individual to the collective. She circles around how we embody story, how we can develop a metaphorical kind of thinking, experiencing and transmission of artistic work. Between 2010-2015, Cat founded and ran TailSpin as Artistic Director, curating monthly storytelling nights in London and the annual Story Bazaar festival, both of which aimed to offer space for tellers to explore, experiment with their craft and push the boundaries of what we think storytelling is, in front of a warm, encouraging and inviting audience. As a dramaturg – primarily in theatre and dance - and facilitator, Cat’s work seeks to integrate the various elements of a process: to include the dynamics and interplay between the personal, interpersonal and transpersonal elements that are in each creative process. She was a mentor/dramaturgical consultant for 101concrete’s show Assemblage, at fabrik Potsdam in the summer of 2022 and is the dramaturg for Adi Weinberg’s If the bull won’t come, which premiered, also at the fabrik, in November 2022. Cat mentors, curates and teaches various workshops (both online and off) and is a regular teacher at Arthaus Berlin and Cours Florent, Berlin.  www.catgerrard.com

OTHER INFO
* If you feel sick, under the weather or unwell on the day/s of the workshop, please take care of yourself and others and stay at home. Please also let Cat know by email (through the contact the event organiser button) as soon as possible.

* If you need to cancel your spot, please email as soon as possible so we can give your ticket to someone else!
If you cancel up to two weeks before the event (by 14th October) we can give you a full refund, minus Paypal or Stripe transaction costs.
If you cancel within two weeks of the event (14th - 28th October) we can refund you 50% of the cost, minus Paypal or Stripe transaction costs.
If we need to cancel the workshop we will give all participants a full refund.

* If you have any other questions or access needs, please do let Cat know by email (hit the contact the event organiser button) and we will be in touch with you within a few days. 

WEEKEND WORKSHOP SERIES
This workshop is part of a Weekend Workshop Autumn Series with Cat Gerrard and Adi Weinberg. Each workshop stands alone but you might be interested to see what else we're doing here... https://www.tickettailor.com/events/catgerrard