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.

Winter

Immersive Performance Skills:
Risk Taking, Spontaneity, and Authenticity

Saturday, February 16th
11:00am-2:00pm

Immersive Performance Skills:
Shaping Time

Saturday, March 2nd
11:00am-2:00pm

Immersive Performance Skills:
Eye Contact, Focus, and Body Language

Friday, March 15th
11:00am-2:00pm

Spring

Immersive Performance Skills:
Spheres of Awareness / Spheres of Influence

Saturday, April 13th
11:00am-2:00pm

Immersive Performance Skills:
Status and Relationship

Saturday, April 27th
10:00am-2:00pm

Immersive Performance Skills:
Creative Practice of the Collaborative Artist

Saturday, May 11th
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 co-artistic director of Third Rail Projects. He leads a number of site-specific, immersive, and international projects for the company and has taught and lectured domestically and abroad for more than 20 years, most recently: Saint Petersburg State University (Russia); with MindPark and CDE Live (China); and Wesleyan University (USA). He teaches a suite of in-house offerings for Third Rail which includes creative practices, devising theater, dramaturgy, experience design, and performance technique. Read More .

Edward Rice has performed with Third Rail Projects since 2012 on a number of projects including Then She Fell , The Grand Paradise , Ghost Light , and Medicine Show .  He has worked on the directing team for The Grand Paradise , Midnight Madness, and Third Rail Projects’ multi year collaboration with Chicago’s Albany Park Theater Project on Learning Curve . 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 and Improvisation and Composition throughout the Mid-West, as well as Dance New Amsterdam (NYC), The International Dance Festival in Bytom, Poland and The Open Look Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia. In the Spring of 2014 he was a Guest Teacher at SUNY Brockport teaching technique and composition and in early 2018 he set a piece on the students at Illinois State University. He has presented workshops on immersive theater at Stockton University, The University of Maryland, and through Third Rail Projects. He holds a B.S. and an M.F.A in Dance Performance from Illinois State University and the University of Iowa, respectively.

Jennine Willett is co-artistic director of Third Rail Projects and an award-winning director, choreographer, performer, and educator. She oversees the company’s public workshop curriculum, curating workshops that share the methods and skills that come into play when creating and performing in a variety of platforms. Her workshops attract artists of all ages and disciplines, and she cultivates a learning environment that encourages experimentation and collaboration, both of which are an integral part of her work. 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.

Past Teaching Residencies

Princeton University | The Last Boat

Princeton, NJ | Spring 2016

CEC Artslink | As Time Goes By

St. Petersburg, Russia | March 2016

Albany Park Theater Project | Learning Curve

Chicago,. IL | August 2014

CEC Artslink | Fountain

Almaty, Kazakhstan | Aug. + Sept. 2013

CEC Artslink | Bathing Aiperi

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan | April 2013

Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation | The One You Love is Sick

Hong Kong | April 2010

To tell us more about your program, connect with us at
edu@thirdrailprojects.com

Education

Education

Educational Offerings

Creative Process + Composition

Performance + Technique

Workshops

Workshops

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

Winter

Immersive Performance Skills: Risk Taking, Spontaneity, and Authenticity

Immersive Performance Skills: Shaping Time

Immersive Performance Skills: Eye Contact, Focus, and Body Language

Spring

Immersive Performance Skills: Spheres of Awareness / Spheres of Influence

Immersive Performance Skills: Status and Relationship

Immersive Performance Skills: Creative Practice of the Collaborative Artist

Workshop Leaders

Master Classes

Master Classes

Master Class Offerings

Teaching Residencies

Teaching Residencies

RESIDENCY OFFERINGS

Past Teaching Residencies

Immersive Performance Skills:
Risk Taking, Spontaneity, and Authenticity

Immersive Performance Skills:
Shaping Time

Immersive Performance Skills:
Eye Contact, Focus, and Body Language

Immersive Performance Skills:
Spheres of Awareness / Spheres of Influence

Immersive Performance Skills:
Status and Relationship

Immersive Performance Skills:
Creative Practice of the Collaborative Artist