Momentum Stage

Professional Development and Guest Artist Sessions

Momentum Stage offers Guest Artists Sessions and Professional Development Workshops.

Available workshops

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Consent and power dynamics

  • Workshop possibilities include:

    • Power Dynamics in the Rehearsal Room: We recommend this workshop as a starting point for everyone. Power Dynamics are in every organization and structure we are a part of, so it is helpful to understand and address them before implementing other changes.

    • Consent in the Performance Process

    • Boundaries for Performers

    • Creative Communication and Critique

    • An Ethical Pedagogy of Touch

    • Trauma-Informed Performance Process

    See our full workshop deck with descriptions of our offerings.

    Can be tailored for students, faculty, or professionals.

    Or check out our Care-Full Creativity Accreditation Program for Dance Conventions, Dance Studios, and Academic Dance Departments.

“Conversations around consent are essential for any educator, especially performers. The consent workshop offered launched a much larger conversation for young artists who are now thinking critically about consent and agency in and out of the studio.”
— Prof. Hannah Fisher, University of Utah
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The laban/Bartenieff movement system

Sessions can be tailored for:

  • Middle School, High School, or University Students

  • Professional Development for Educators (See current live class offerings here or the workshop deck.)

  • Company Artist Training

 
 
“YOU PROVIDED OUR STUDENTS WITH A MARVELOUS INTRODUCTION TO THE
SUBJECT MATTER, ENGAGED THEM IN EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING THROUGH AN ACTIVE (AND FUN!)
WORKSHOP, HELPED THEM RELATE WHAT THEY LEARNED TO THEIR INDIVIDUAL CREATIVE
PROCESSES AND GAVE THEM VALUABLE RESOURCES THAT THEY CAN USE TO INVESTIGATE FURTHER
ON THEIR OWN.”
— Prof. Gerritt Vandermeer, Gulf Coast State
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Artist residencies-

  • Virtual or in-person for middle schools and high schools

  • KINesphere- a dance and ecosystem residency

  • Any of our Guest Artist sessions (see below) can be developed as a residency.

All of our past or current classes are available as Guest Artists Sessions.

  • Commedia dell’Arte or Mimie with Sydney Schwindt

  • Decolonizing Playwriting with Tara Moses

  • Gender in Performance with Shira Gitlin

  • Grotowski’s Cat with Suzanne Akrum-Harris

  • Intro to Stanislavsky with Dan Granke

  • Intro to Podcasting with Sharai Bohannon

  • Suzuki Technique with Suzanne Akrum-Harris

  • and more!

 
“This was a wonderful course!”
— A student from NDEO

Past workshop participants include:

City Theatre (FL) Shakespeare & Co (MA) Theatre Lab (FL) Theatrical Outfit (GA)

Barry University (FL) Drexel University (PA) New World School of the Arts (FL) University of New Hampshire University of Utah

Utah Valley University

The New York Thespian Festival The Ohio Thespian Festival High School Performing Arts Classes in VA, FL, and Canada

The South Florida Theatre League Theatre Alliance (CA)

National and International Dance and Theatre Conferences (see a full list here)

and regular presentations as part of the Dance Education Equity Association’s “Be Courageous” Anti-Racist training program

Workshop FAQs

  1. What are the prices?

    1. Prices vary depending on the length of the workshop, the number of people involved, and other factors. As we are a non-profit, making these accessible is very important to us, and we will work with your budget to create a workshop that fits your needs. Email to inquire.

  2. Are workshops virtual or in-person?

    2. It’s up to you! We can do either or both!

  3. What do I get with a workshop?

    3. Whether your workshop is virtual or in-person, you get the same great content. All of our workshops are interactive. After the workshop, you will receive all

    the slides used in the presentation. With many of our workshops, you also get to schedule a 90min follow-up session, scheduled 1 to 6 months after the

    workshop, to discuss your needs and discoveries with your learning.

  4. Who leads the workshops?

    4. Many of our workshops are led by Nicole Perry (learn more about Nicole here). However, all of our past instructors are available for workshops! Our

    instructors are also located around the world. We will do our best to support in-person requests in an affordable manner. Email us to inquire about

    availability.

  5. I was looking for an Intimacy workshop. Do you offer those?

    5. Only a “what is it” level. Because Nicole works as an educator with the Intimacy Professionals Education Collective (IPEC), we do not offer in-depth, Intimacy

    specific workshops. However, many of our workshops support intimacy professionals in their self-study work, and Momentum Stage is proud to be a resource

    for them. Our power, consent, trauma-informed, and cultural competency workshops are support intimacy work. All of our movement based workshops support

    embodied story-telling and choreographic skills. We can also facilitate conversation with IPEC.