Zoom Workshop June 3,10,&17 2023 4:30-6pm
Micro Puppetry
Sha Sha will introduce what she means by Micropuppetry in her upcoming performance and you will get to make one of your own and perform it online. Choose an area of your body you would like your stage to be. Sha Sha will introduce you to her pieces in progress,approaches to movement and theater as it originally came to her through sculpture, mask, and costume. Bring Paper,cardstock,scissors,pastels or crayons,bamboo barbecue skewers,string or thread.
$12 each you may take one class or all 3. They will each be a little different.
*Before participating, please make sure you know how to use zoom service
Movement Archetype on a Stick part I 12 to 3pm
June 3,2023 Throckmorten Theatre, Mill Valley
email:SHASHAatShaShahigby.com
Masks give you an endless source of pleasure in their creation, theatrical imagery, and even as doll -like images to display. Learn to cast and mold, and recast multiple versions,and pose a theatrical image. Bring your imagination or imagine a face you would like like to mold .Cast from a mold of Sha Sha's Higby's masks, customize and sculpt it into your own.. Mount your cast mask onto a stick,add wires to make structural form,sculpt,add texture,ornamental extensions or make your own spiritual catcher . Sha Sha will guide you through a myriad of techniques of embellishing that she uses in her costumes. You can bring your mask to Sha Sha's performance in June This workshop will be at Throckmorten Theatre in Mill Valley, Bring a small bag of colorful memorabilia, natural stick,and a bell or shaker, scissors, needle nose pliers,loose clothing , $75. includes most materials. For the first workshop with an option for Part 2 on the 17 June depending how many sign up.
Headdresses and Animal Heads!
1-4 pm TBA,
Making Large Paper Headdresses/animal heads give you an endless source of pleasure in their creation, theatrical imagery, and even as an image to display. Learn to mold with aviary wire or chicken wire, and paper mache to pose a theatrical image to mount on your body.
Bring your imagination and imagine a face you would like like to form.
Bring, scissors, needle nose pliers,loose clothing. $100 includes materials
Movement Archetype part 1
Using slides, Sha Sha will first introduce you to her approach to movement and theater as it originally came to her through sculpture, mask, and costume. She will have images of her early work and the steps and choices she made to come to what the work is today. She will also bring actual samples of her work for people to closely examine. Then we will stretch with movement using music and paper and color,wire,and elastic and projections to expand the possibilities of the space around us which is Sha Sha gets inspiration for her costume sculptures, puppetry, and theater pieces. Participants will be invited to ask questions.
Sha Sha Higby approaches dance through the medium of sculpture, Using the painterly manipulation of materials such as wood,silk,paper,lacquer,ceramics,and gold leaf,Higby creates ephemeral body sculptures. These painstakingly constructed "costumes," interwoven with delicate props,are the foundation for haunting performances,inspired by Indonesian,Japanese,Indian ,and Western dance traditions. Higby's trance-like movement reveal a theater of slow passion,potent with hypnotic intensity. Sha Sha Higby studied for one year in Japan. and for 5 years in Indonesia,under a Fulbright scholarship. She is a recipient of both Fulbright and Indo-American Fellowships to study in India.
$60 (includes materials) parent with child ,($100) You could also go Payable through Paypal at shasha at shashahigby.com
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Movement Archetype on a Stick part 2 2-5:30
415.868.2409 email:SHASHAatShaShahigby.com
Masks give you an endless source of pleasure in their creation, theatrical imagery, and even as doll -like images to display. Learn to cast and mold, and recast multiple versions,and pose a theatrical image.
Bring your imagination and imagine a face you would like like to mold .Cast from a mold of Sha Sha's Higby's masks, customize and sculpt. Mount your cast mask onto a stick,add wires to make structural form,sculpt,add texture,ornamental extensions or make your own .
Sha Sha will guide you through a myriad of techniques of embellishing that she uses in her costumes. At the end you can give an impromptu movement vignette with the piece you have made so farwhich will inspire its further growth of design.
Bring a bag of colorful memorabilia, natural stick,and a bell or shaker, scissors, needle nose pliers,loose clothing
For Part 2 you take Part 1 together and pay a total of $105(or parent and child $160) (includes $10 materials) for both workshops. You must take part 1 to qualify for part 2 unless special arrangements are made.
shasha@shashahigby.com Payable through Paypal
Lecture & Movement:The Artists Work Time two hours
Using slides, Sha Sha will first introduce you to her approach to movement and theater as it originally came to her through sculpture, mask, and costume. She will have pictures of her early work and the steps and choices she made to come to what the work is today. She will also bring actual samples of her work for people to closely examine. We will do some movement related to the sculptures.Participants will be invited to ask questions.
Sha Sha Higby approaches dance through the medium of sculpture, Using the painterly manipulation of materials such as wood,silk,paper,lacquer,ceramics,and gold leaf,Higby creates ephemeral body sculptures. These painstakingly constructed "costumes," interwoven with delicate props,are the foundation for haunting performances,inspired by Indonesian,Japanese,Indian ,and Western dance traditions. Higby's trance-like movement reveal a theater of slow passion,potent with hypnotic intensity. Sha Sha Higby studied for one year in Japan. and for 5 years in Indonesia,under a Fulbright scholarship. She is a recipient of both Fulbright and Indo-American Fellowships to study in India.
Wire forms in Light :
One of the techniques Sha Sha uses in her costumes is manipulating three dimensional forms.Make drawings from movement inspired by Sha Sha,Sculpt your own sculpture out of wire. Paste your drawings and poems onto the structure with different colored papers and tint with dyes. put a light or candle to light it and dance!
Create a short performance vignette .These are some of the creative techniques Sha Sha uses for formulating her costumes. To get started, movement imagery will inspire drawings fantastic structures.
Bring your own needle nose pliers or wire cutter medium size and some scrap newspaper,some varieties of rice paper. For the workshop, wear loose and dark clothing and bring a flash light, journal or large paper, pastels,pencils,crayons pliers, scissors, cardboard, masking tape, and any ornamental, trims, beads, fabric scraps, sticks, or other bits of interesting stuff you find . Sha Sha will supply wire,and all the odd bits,but bring your pliers.
Puppetry Online Workshop
Costume performance artist, Sha Sha Higby will share multiple images of her costume performance work over the years. Then we will work with movement, sound, and drawings, to create a paper puppet object hinged at the joints. The class will be in Japanese and English. She will demonstrate in front of the camera how to cut the pieces into a puppet. We will each construct a paper puppet object that is something unique, inspired from within or from an image. We share them one by one on zoom with light from a flashlight or party bulb.
*Before participating, please make sure you know how to use zoom service.
Masks give you an endless source of pleasure in their creation, theatrical imagery, and even as doll -like images to display. Learn to cast and mold, and recast multiple versions,and pose a theatrical image.
Bring your imagination and imagine a face you would like like to mold .Cast from a mold of Sha Sha's Higby's masks, customize and sculpt. Mount your cast mask onto a stick,add wires to make structural form,sculpt,add texture,ornamental extensions or make your own .
Sha Sha will guide you through a myriad of techniques of embellishing that she uses in her costumes. At the end you can give an impromptu movement vignette with the piece you have made so farwhich will inspire its further growth of design.
Bring a bag of colorful memorabilia, natural stick,and a bell or shaker, scissors, needle nose pliers,loose clothing
For Part 2 you take Part 1 together and pay a total of $105(or parent and child $160) (includes $10 materials) for both workshops. You must take part 1 to qualify for part 2 unless special arrangements are made.
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