Skill Development and Empowerment for the Performing Arts
Driven by passionate Curiosity, these courses in Stage Combat and Intimacy offer opportunities to develop skills and processes that can foster growth and development within art forms, the artists and the workspaces. Professional Development Courses and Masterclasses on demand for the professionals in Arts Workspaces.
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Your instructor, Siobhan Richardson:
Siobhan Richardson is an internationally-recognized Fight Director, an Intimacy Director (a pioneer voice in this specialty across Canada), an award-winning actor/fighter/singer/dancer and an "industry legend" (Intermission Magazine). Her teaching career has spanned Canada, USA and Europe. She’s been both a student and a teacher online for over a decade.
Siobhan’s work as a Fight Director and Intimacy Director has been seen on some of Canada’s premiere stages, as well as around the world through online performance and education. She was recently awarded an Arts Response Initiative Project Grant to create online Stage Combat study, and would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.
Passionately curious, Siobhan continues to pursue her own training, and is continually experimenting, drawing from arts and science for the betterment of our performances, rehearsal practices and the spaces we work in. She Practices that foster joyful workspaces for vulnerable and creative work has been a particular focus of the last several years.