PlayMoves - Movement Workshop for Performance
Facilitated by Anna Yen
December 15 - 19, 2025
9.30am - 1.30 pm
VULCANA MOVEMENT STUDIO
400-420 Lytton Road, Morningside. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
This workshop is for performers, actors, singers, circus performers, clowns, musicians, dancers, directors and drama teachers.
The program includes:
* games to invite our playfulness and the pleasure to be on stage
* performance exercises to explore what it means to be present and in complicity with other performers
* movement sequences from the Feldenkrais Method designed to heighten the perception of one’s self-use, invite an organic sense of movement with more ease, and to explore options.
* rhythm as a foundation for creative play
* a beautiful writing exercise that begin from the physical
PlayMoves is facilitated by theatre-maker, performer and Feldenkrais Practitioner, Anna Yen. It is inspired by the work of renowned European theatre teacher Monika Pagneux. Our quest is to awaken the performer, inviting the attentive and joyful performing physical presence that marries risk with vulnerability and self-confidence with authenticity.
Dates: Monday Dec 15 – Friday Dec 19, 2025
Time: 9.30 am – 1.30 pm (includes a morning tea /snack break)
Venue:. VULCANA MOVEMENT STUDIO, 400 - 420 Lytton Road, Morningside. Brisbane, QLD.
Fee: $395 / $345 Early Bird Payment by Nov 15, 2025. Vulcana members discount $30 off.
Bookings: Pre-booking and prepayment are required for this workshop. Email
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If this is your first time at a PlayMoves workshop, please email a brief biography and a short statement on why you are keen to participate. Anna’s Mobile is 0417 623 886 if you have questions.
Payments: (After booking confirmed with Anna). Direct Deposit: Anna Yen BSB: 06 4131 AC: 00655275. PayID is Anna’s Mobile. Please include your name with payment and inform Anna by email that payment has been made.
Comments from PlayMoves participants:
"This has been the most awakening and inspiring workshop I have attended in a while. Really wonderful.” Actor
"I feel as though I've been woken up - opened to new ways of being and reminded of others I'd forgotten.” Musician
“Extremely valuable. Workshops like this one help to reaffirm one's creativity.” Actor
Anna Yen is an actor, theatre maker, and Feldenkrais Method ® practitioner. Her work spans theatre, contemporary circus, physical theatre, and film. She teaches in communities, companies, schools, universities, festivals and privately. Anna teaches Awareness Through Movement at the Qld Conservatorium of Music. She was in La Boite Theatre / STC’s “The Poison of Polygamy”, debase Productions’ “Death in A Statesman” and “Concerto for Presto and Harmony”, Baran Theatre’s “Tower of Babel” Brisbane, CAAP / Griffin Theatre’s “The Serpent’s Table”, Creative Region’s ‘It All Begins With Love” and “Monsteria”, Embodi Theatre’s “AI May” at PIP Theatre. Anna is the recipient of a Matilda Award for her acclaimed “Chinese Take Away”, a Costume Design Matilda Award with GUSH co-creators for “Monsteria”, and a Churchill Fellowship. Her play “Slow Boat”, produced by Playlab Theatre, premiered at the Brisbane Festival 2022, for which Anna was Movement Director.
http://www.playmoves.org
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