Lori Ann Gossert | Creative Arts Consultant

 
 

Mime & Movement

Bring Lori Ann in for practices, workshops, camps, conferences or special sessions to provide training in a variety of mime and movement areas.  There are topics and sessions suitable for mimes, dancers, drama teams or simply anyone interested in worship or movement!

Mime and movement sessions are active and interactive.  They should be at least 45 minutes long and can last up to 90 minutes.  Sessions can be mixed and matched and tailored to your individual needs!

Critique & Choreography

Geared for mime teams, this is your opportunity to get an outside perspective on your mime pieces, learn how to put your own pieces together or take them to the next level.  You can also have Lori Ann come in and teach solo or team pieces she has mimeographed.

Choose from interactive sessions such as How To Create A Piece and Making Pieces Pop or simply set up a time for critique or new choreography!

session descriptions below

 
Training

Basic Mime Technique

Mime technique for beginners!  Includes basic hand, foot and body positioning, object identification, simple illusions and attitudes.


Character Development

An active workshop on how to develop characters.  Includes a short lecture on character development plus various character exercises such as creating a character, physicalizations & movements and making characters live.


Improvisational Mime

A fun session on learning to use what you know to create stories!  Includes basic principles of improvisation, guided stories and improv exercises.


Intermediate Mime Technique

Mime technique for more advanced students.  This workshop builds on principles and movements in basic mime technique.  Includes isolations, balances, rhythms, senses, illusions, coloration/decoloration and statues.


Learning to Move

A safe introductory workshop for non-movers!  Includes a short lecture on physical symbolisms, learning a vocabulary of movement and putting it into practice.


Mask Making

Participants are able to learn how to make simple plaster masks and have one made of their own face!  This session is also great for team and trust building!


Mime for Actors

A session on how basic mime technique can enhance dramatic performance.  Includes a short lecture, basic mime technique and principles, mime for character development and how to work with or without props.


Mime for Dancers

A session on how basic mime technique can facilitate in dance.  Includes a short lecture, basic mime technique and principles, playing with mime and creating lyrical illusions.


Mime Lab

Student-oriented session geared to answer questions and work on specific techniques, as requested.


Movement in Worship

An interactive workshop on learning to worship through movement.  Includes a short lecture on movement as worship, mirrors, forms and Hebrew Folk dance!

Session Descriptions

Mime & Movement suggested sessions:

  1. •For drama teams

  2. •Character development

  3. •Mime for Actors

  4. •For dance teams

  5. •Mime for Dancers

  6. •For mime teams

  7. •Basic Mime Technique

  8. •Intermediate Mime Technique

  9. •Improvisational Mime

  10. •Mime Lab

  11. •For anyone!

  12. •Learning to Move

  13. •Movement in Worship

  14. •Mask Making

You shall love the Lord with all your heart...soul...mind...strength

Mime and Movement

Critique and Choreography

A Time to Critique

This session is for your pieces to be shown and critiqued.  An overall critique as well as specific ideas and helps will be given.  Please allow at least 30 minutes past the time it takes to present for every 10 minutes worth of pieces.


How to Create a Piece

A hands-on session on the basics of creating a mime piece.  Includes a brief look at dramatic line, where to start a piece and putting the story-line together.  Longer sessions will include practical group exercises on specific assignments.


Making Pieces Pop

An interactive session giving tips and hints for taking pieces from okay to outstanding!  Includes a wide range of topics that will be largely determined through class interaction.


Pre-Made Pieces

Choose from an array of solo and team pieces mimeographed by Lori Ann.  Receive personal training for each piece and the mime techniques that go along with it.