Shake Shook Shaken: Ability w/ Layna Wang
@ Elastic Arts
3429 W Diversey Ave, #208, Chicago IL, 60647
Opening Saturday, October 25th, at 12PM
Shake Shook Shaken is a theater/movement workshop series produced by Julie Meckler. The series is designed for people to gently bring body awareness, allowing participants to open up, explore outside of their comfort zone, bond with each other, create and show. By playing with these concepts using our bodies, voices, words, and each other, we will explore our own awareness and sensitivity as artists and people.
Shake Shook Shaken is a dream of what a safe space could allow. A vision of a place for everybody to gather, look at each other, play and create in a non judgmental, trauma-informed way. It’s an invitation, a journey within and out, a surprise. Each workshop is unique. This month we’ll have Layna Wang and Julie leading on the topic of ABILITY.
No prior dance or acting experience is necessary, just willingness to move and exhale. This workshop series is for anyone and everyone.
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID – Tickets Available at the Door
Artist Bios
Layna Wang (they/them) is a Chicago-based sound artist, performer, and educator with a background in opera singing, improvisation, performance art, and musicology. They use voice and experimental sound practices to explore how identity, power, and cultural belonging are shaped, and their projects approach accessibility and disability as catalysts for new artistic possibilities rather than as limitations. Wang is currently developing Sacred Soundscapes of Chicago, an interfaith field recording archive documenting the city’s spiritual diversity, and facilitates a series of graphic score workshops that invite collaborative interdisciplinary music-making while challenging the literacy barriers of Western notation. Alongside these projects, they maintain a teaching studio of piano and voice students, serve as Program Manager at the Chinese Fine Arts Society, and are recognized as an Emerging Leader at Interfaith America. Much of Wang’s work unfolds in laboratory-style workshop settings, where experimentation and collective discovery drive the process.
Julie Meckler is a French/American multi-disciplinary performing artist. After a career in France in theater as an actress, director and educator, she reinvented herself, moved by herself to the USA and became a singer-songwriter She’s been part of the Chicago music scene since 2008, and released a critically acclaimed album in 2013. She’s also a storyteller, a birth educator, a doula, a Social-Emotional-Learning Specialist and a French teacher. All of her experiences inform and nourish each workshop.
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