Education

Workshops | Master Classes | Residencies

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Education

Workshops | Master Classes | Residencies

Above Photo by Joshua Dutton-Reaver

Educational Offerings

Designed to appeal to artists from a variety of backgrounds, disciplines and communities; our education program shares performance skills employed in our contemporary dance, site-specific, and immersive works. We bring creative minds together to explore topics through inquiry, experimentation, and collaboration.

Creative Process + Composition

Led by the Artistic Directors of Third Rail Projects, these courses share both the company’s collaborative methods and those that are unique to each director.

Performance + Technique

Our Teaching Artists, all long-standing company members, offer a variety of technique and performance courses, providing generous insights honed from years of experience with audiences in our work.

Workshops

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Workshops

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UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

With an open atmosphere for exploration and discourse, our small class sizes create intimate environments where artists can connect and exchange ideas. All workshops are open to all skill levels, but have limited capacity so advanced registration is required. A dance or movement-based theater background is not required but useful. A willingness and ability to move and explore are the requisites.

Fall

Creating a Cinematic Movement Practice: Physicality, Presence, and Perception

Saturday, September 22nd – 11:00am-2:00pm

Expanding States of Performance

Sunday, September 23rd – 11:00am-2:00pm

Immersive Performance Skills: Spontaneity and Structure

Friday, September 28th – 10:00am-2:00pm

Immersive Performance skills: Performing Practice/Practice Performing

Friday, October 19th – 10:00am-1:00pm

Using Your Voice

Saturday, October 27th – 10:00am-4:00pm

Immersive Performance Skills: Status and Relationship

Saturday, November 17th – 11:00am-2:00pm

Workshop Leaders

Rebekah Morin is a performing artist and an educator.  She’s been a guest artist in many area schools and taught master classes for dance professionals nationally and internationally. She has taught dance, theater, yoga, and cooking for children and teens through programs such as 92St. Y, Wingspan, BAX, and Brooklyn Friends. Ms. Morin is a registered yoga teacher and has been teaching in studios, classrooms, and boardrooms since 2002. She has a BA in dance and is trained is natural horsemanship. Ms. Morin brings these practices together in her workshops with Third Rail Projects.

Marissa Nielsen-Pincus  is a performing artist, teacher and founding member of Third Rail Projects.  Since 2011 she has been Third Rail Projects' Associate Artistic Director and is also the Rehearsal Director for Then She Fell . Originally from Portland, OR, Marissa studied contemporary dance in London at the London Studio Centre and moved to NYC in 2001.  She is a certified Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner and teaches immersive performance skills and Body-Mind Centering® classes and workshops both nationally and internationally. She lives in Brooklyn with a man and a cat.

Tara O'Con  has been a collaborative member of Third Rail Projects since 2006, originating roles many productions including Then She Fell and The Grand Paradise . Her workshops and creative practice bring together her background in immersive theater performance, experience design, and cinematic choreography in order to craft experiences that elicit empathetic exchange across disciplines, environments, and populations.  Recent residencies include the Movement Research Artist-In-Residence Program 2012-2013, and a 2016 Choreographic Fellowship at the Bogliasco Foundation Study Center for Arts and Humanities in Liguria,Italy.  Taraoconexperiencedesign.com

Tom Pearson is is Co-Artistic Director of Third Rail Projects and Director of Third Rail International and the Global Performance Studio (GPS). Tom leads a number of site-specific, immersive, and international projects for the company. He has taught domestically and abroad for more than 20 years: as adjunct faculty for Florida State University (FSU in NYC under the direction of Sally Sommer from 2009-2013) and the Florida School of the Arts. He has also taught through workshops, lectures and panels with Actor’s Theater of Louisville, New York City Opera, American Dance Festival, Town Hall, The LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts, Swarthmore College, New York University, the Public Theater, Columbia University Teacher’s College, and internationally with CEC Artslink, China Dream Live Entertainment, and the Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation, among others. He teaches a suite of in-house offerings for Third Rail Projects which includes creative practices, devising theater, dramaturgy, experience design, and performance technique. Tom holds an MA from New York University in Performance Studies.

Edward Rice has worked with Third Rail Projects since 2012. His performance credits with them include Then She Fell, and The Grand Paradise. He has worked directing team for The Grand Paradise, Midnight Madness and Learning Curve a collaboration with Chicago’s Albany Park Theater Project. He has performed professionally since 2007 (Laura Peterson Choreography, Elephant Jane Dance, Alexandra Beller/Dances, Punchdrunk's Sleep No More, NYC, among others).   He has taught Technique, Improvisation and Composition throughout the Mid-West and New York City and internationally. In the Spring of 2014 he was a Guest Artist at SUNY Brockport teaching in a 7 week residency.

Jennine Willett is one of Third Rail Projects' Co-Artistic Director and a Bessie-Award winning choreographer, director, performer, writer, and educator. At the helm of Third Rail Projects’ education initiatives and curriculum, she teaches workshops, master classes, and residencies that share the creative methods and skills that come into play when devising, directing and performing in a variety of platforms. Jennine has served as a Visiting Artist at Princeton University and as an adjunct faculty member at Swarthmore College and Florida State University. She has offered workshops, courses, and lectures for numerous academic institutions and arts organizations. See More

Master Classes

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Master Classes

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Master Class Offerings

Our Master Classes are available to academic institutions, arts organizations, and professionals from many industries. Our classes are customized to share the applicable and relevant aspects of our creative practice that speak to each unique community.

To inquire about a class for your organization, please connect with us at
edu@thirdrailprojects.com

Teaching Residencies

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Teaching Residencies

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RESIDENCY OFFERINGS

Our Teaching Residencies expand our educational offerings into longer curriculums that are tailored to meet the unique interests of each organization or academic program. Participants are encouraged to bring their unique voices and perspectives into the process, experiencing the collaborative approach to art-making that is integral to Third Rail Projects’ work. These intensive exchanges culminate in performances that range from in-class or small public showings to fully realized productions.