Are you working on a new theatre project and looking for coaching, dramaturgy, and mentorship? Are you looking to balance your well-honed craft with the raw, weird, archival and immediate? Ready for the unfolding of new things that are appealing, prismatic and well-built? Do you want to be mentored by Jenny Romaine for a week? This workshop may be for you. Jenny has spent several decades creating new Yiddish performance that privileges dance, sculpture, text, and music as equal partners in composition. She specializes in keeping theatre at the heart of social life and making sense of big themes and ideas.
Participation in this workshop is by prior application only, as space is limited to three projects. This workshop will run across four days, with two sessions each day. The schedule will include one introductory full group session that will feature a “tell and kvell” where Romaine shares and discusses her work as an artist. Over the following six sessions, you’ll focus on your own work, including two mentorship sessions. Jenny Romaine will rotate across the participant projects; each group will have two private sessions with Jenny at the Summer Retreat, as well as a pre-retreat consultation designed to help each group realize their artistic goals. The final session will be a group showing where your glorious art will shine out for other workshop participants to experience. It’s gonna be a blast!
Interested groups should send an expression of interest to Avia Moore (avia [dot] moore [at] klezkanada [dot] org), KlezKanada’s Artistic Director, by May 1, 2024. Your expression should include a brief summary of your project, a work sample (photos or video), your goals for this workshop, and a list of your group members. Accepted groups must submit a video work sample by July 1, 2024, so that Jenny can review your work prior to the Summer Retreat.
Accepted applicants register as regular Summer Retreat participants. Eligible participants may apply for our scholarship and work exchange programs but acceptance in these programs is not guaranteed. KlezKanada will provide letters of support for groups planning to apply for external funding opportunities.