Hi all,
On April 26, I'm going to be teaching my Hazard Scenes workshop. It's $35, all of which will go to get an adaptive bike for Zoe, an awesome 6 year-old girl (and improviser's daughter) who has Rett Syndrome.
http://dearpatandmary.com/get-zoe-a-bike/
What's Hazard Scenes?
It's a workshop to focus on all the stuff you think you're not supposed to do: Transaction scenes, Teaching scenes, asking questions, etc... My experience is that, the more we tell ourselves to avoid stuff while we're improvising, the more we're drawn to it. So instead of avoiding this stuff, we're going to focus on what to do when we find ourselves in the middle of it. Hint: it's not freezing up and punishing ourselves.
Who am I? I've improvised, taught, and coached for uhm... a long time. I studied with Del, played on the iO touring ensemble & two house teams there: Georgia Pacific & The Pat Shay Dancers. With Georgia Pacific, I performed in the very first Bat (Harold in the Dark) to ever be put in front of an audience. Also was briefly on a house team at UCB before moving over to the PIT, where I've taught for something like ten years.
Why does Zoe need a bike? It's springtime, and six year olds should have bikes. Zoe has Rett Syndrome and needs an adaptive bike so that she can apply what motor function she has. It is vital to ward off scoliosis and maintain muscle tone.
What's Rett Syndrome? It's nasty, is what it is. And sexist: it almost excusively attacks girls. It's a neurodevelopmental disorder that basically creates a barrier between the brain and the body, creating a state in which a cognitively normal little girl can't control her arms or legs or talk. Worse, it doesn't become apparent until after the girl is 1 year old. So you get a baby who learns to walk and begins to communicate, and then it gets taken away.
Zoe's mom is a really good improviser and a friend. Take a cool workshop and let's do something to move the needle in a family's life.
http://dearpatandmary.com/get-zoe-a-bike/
On April 26, I'm going to be teaching my Hazard Scenes workshop. It's $35, all of which will go to get an adaptive bike for Zoe, an awesome 6 year-old girl (and improviser's daughter) who has Rett Syndrome.
http://dearpatandmary.com/get-zoe-a-bike/
What's Hazard Scenes?
It's a workshop to focus on all the stuff you think you're not supposed to do: Transaction scenes, Teaching scenes, asking questions, etc... My experience is that, the more we tell ourselves to avoid stuff while we're improvising, the more we're drawn to it. So instead of avoiding this stuff, we're going to focus on what to do when we find ourselves in the middle of it. Hint: it's not freezing up and punishing ourselves.
Who am I? I've improvised, taught, and coached for uhm... a long time. I studied with Del, played on the iO touring ensemble & two house teams there: Georgia Pacific & The Pat Shay Dancers. With Georgia Pacific, I performed in the very first Bat (Harold in the Dark) to ever be put in front of an audience. Also was briefly on a house team at UCB before moving over to the PIT, where I've taught for something like ten years.
Why does Zoe need a bike? It's springtime, and six year olds should have bikes. Zoe has Rett Syndrome and needs an adaptive bike so that she can apply what motor function she has. It is vital to ward off scoliosis and maintain muscle tone.
What's Rett Syndrome? It's nasty, is what it is. And sexist: it almost excusively attacks girls. It's a neurodevelopmental disorder that basically creates a barrier between the brain and the body, creating a state in which a cognitively normal little girl can't control her arms or legs or talk. Worse, it doesn't become apparent until after the girl is 1 year old. So you get a baby who learns to walk and begins to communicate, and then it gets taken away.
Zoe's mom is a really good improviser and a friend. Take a cool workshop and let's do something to move the needle in a family's life.
http://dearpatandmary.com/get-zoe-a-bike/