with InterPlay co-founder Phil Porter
This afternoon workshop with InterPlay Co-founder Phil Porter will explore that surprising thing that happens when light-bringing play leads to powerful awareness and expression. We will move, tell our stories, connect with each other, hold still, and find our sounds. We will let each other be ourselves and learn from each other in the process. We will certainly laugh, because that almost always happens when people gather to do InterPlay! Let yourself find out something new, whether you have been doing InterPlay for a long time or are newer to it.
We will play for the first couple of hours, take a little break, then gather in a circle to consider what exciting activities might want to emerge in the Triangle area. Come with your thoughts and ideas! You are free to stay for this part or not, but we would love to have input from as many people as possible.
Cost
Pay as you’re able. Suggested donation: $20 – $30
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About Phil Porter
Phil Porter is one of the co-founders of InterPlay, along with his colleague of 40 years, Cynthia Winton-Henry. He is a teacher, performer, writer, designer, artist, and organizer. He and Cynthia also co-founded WING IT! Performance Ensemble in 1989, an Oakland, California improvisational group. He has written several books including Having It All: Body, Mind, Heart & Spirit Together Again at Last and The Slightly Mad Rantings of a Body Intellectual Part One. Phil believes that InterPlay can be a powerful tool to create communities of diversity, peace, and justice.
Phil trained as a textile artist and graphic designer at the University of California at Berkeley, where he also spent a great deal of time studying modern dance. He has designed costumes and liturgical garments, and has worked in a variety of artistic media. He is currently obsessed with polymer clay.
Phil has immersed himself in the process of telling improvised “big body stories” that often address grand social and political issues as well as the mundane details of daily life, turning them into a spirited melange of movement, story and sound.