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Josh Chenard is a teacher, director, and theatre maker who has led workshops, taught classes, and guided productions all over the country while serving as the head of acting at New Mexico State University. His recent work includes the regional premiere of the Mr. Popper’s Penguins musical for Virginia Repertory Theatre, the Chicago premiere of Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers for the Athenaeum Theater, and a critically acclaimed production of Eugene O'Neill’s Desire Under the Elms for the Firehouse Theatre in Richmond, Virginia. Chenard is a proud member of the Stage Director and Choreographer's Society and the Lincoln Center Directors Lab where he led an exploration of the Costa Rican folk tale La Segua.
Moving beyond taste, touch, sight, smell, and sound, this unique and active interlude will explore other dynamic and theatrical senses, such as balance, temperature, pain, time, and the kinesthetic. Participants will be provided with a series of powerful, vibrant performance tools to help illuminate the connection between impulse and action, deepen the experience of character creation, and inspire bold thinking.
Your body is a text that is always telling a story, even when you do not know it. Through a playful and informative exploration of breath, the limbic system, and body language, participants in this session will pinpoint the habits, behaviors, and universal movement patterns they can use to create characters, enact specific gestures, and physically tell stories.
