Workshops

Upcoming Workshops

Adventures with Archetypes of Myths And Legends

Sunday, JULY 6 through Saturday, JULY 12, 2025

a week-long intensive workshop*

TAUGHT BY FRANKIE ARMSTRONG & DARIEN PRITCHARD, FELDENKRAIS PRACTITIONER

Where: KINNERSLEY CASTLE, HEREFORD, UK

This transformational work was developed by Frankie Armstrong and documented in (Acting and Singing with Archetypes), Rodgers and Armstrong, Limelight Edition)

TUITION, ROOM AND BOARD**

$1110.00, single room/$975 shared room 890 pounds/£775)

Yurt or bell tents [with proper bed]. $650/£510

COURSE LIMITED TO 14 PARTICIPANTS

IF INTERESTED, PLEASE CONTACT SHEILA GORDON sheilamg@stedwards.edu

*The workshop is available to all levels of experience. We welcome teachers looking to further their pedagogical skills. First level toward certification available. This workshop can comfortably accommodate only 14 participants, so please reserve your space early. To hold your place in the workshop please make a deposit of $300.00 by February 15, 2025.

**PARTICIPANTS WILL BE HOUSED at Kinnersley castle. Meals (fresh, organic vegetarian fare) are included in the cost.

 

Previous Workshops

Sheila Gordon Huntress Journey
January 22, 2022

1pm – 3pm East Coast (EST), 10am – 12 noon (PST) 6pm – 8.00pm in UK (GMT)

Virtual Workshop # 2: Saturday, January 22, 2022

THE HUNTRESS JOURNEY

Conducted by Sheila Gordon

Sheila Gordon, Associate Professor of Acting and Voice at St. Edward’s University, is the resident voice and dialect coach at the Mary Moody Northen Theatre. Specializing in both Michael Chekhov and Feldenkrais, she has an extensive background in movement related approaches to both acting and voice production and has been teaching Archetype courses online since the pandemic began.

Weekend Festival of Archetypes

A Jamboree of Virtual Workshops June 24, 25, 26, 2022

$100 for the whole Festival. Your choice of how many sessions you attend.

Friday, June 24 

Session 1
11am-1pm EST; 8am-10am PST; 4pm-6pm UK/BST

David Coolidge – Introduction/Warmup Leader
Frankie Armstrong – Spiritual and Temporal Leader Journey

Session 2
2pm-4pm EST; 11am-1pm PST; 7pm-9pm UK/BST

Olisa Enrico – 5 in 1 (Child, Maiden, Lover, Mother, Crone)

Saturday, June 25 

Session 3
11am-1pm EST; 8am-10am PST; 4pm-6pm UK/BST

Sheila Gordon – Huntress Journey with applications to text

Session 4
2pm-4pm EST; 11am-1pm PST; 7pm-9pm UK/BST

Bridget Connors – Trickster Journey with applications to text 

Sunday, June 26 

Session 5
11am-1pm EST; 8am-10am PST; 4pm-6pm UK/BST

Chris Morris – Review/Warmup Leader
Janet Rodgers – Exploring Shadow Archetypes 

Session 6
2pm-4pm EST; 11am-1pm PST; 7pm-9pm UK/BST

Allison Hetzel – Lucifer Journey with applications to text

A Taste of the Archetypes

Upcoming Free Workshops

Janet B. Rodgers – The Lover/Sensuous Dancer Journey
Saturday, May 7th,2022

1pm – 3pm East Coast (EST), 10am – 12 noon (PST)6pm – 8.00pm in UK (GMT)

Virtual Workshop #4: Saturday, May 7th , 2022

The Lover/Sensuous Dancer

Conducted by Janet B. Rodgers

For this journey you will need to have a space in which you can move freely as well as lie down. It will be helpful to have a sensuous fabric with you. Ie. A silk scarf or other flowy fabric. Also, please have a notebook and writing utensil since we will take time at the end of the journey to record our impressions.

Janet Rodgers is co-author, along with Frankie Armstrong of Acting and Singing with Archetypes (Limelight Editions/Hal Leonard, 2009). She is Professor Emerita of Theatre, Virginia Commonwealth University where she was the head of voice and speech training for 25 years. She looks forward to taking this journey with you.

Olisa Enrico Creator/Destroyer
March 19, 2022

1pm – 3pm East Coast (EST), 10am – 12 noon (PST)6pm – 8.00pm in UK (GMT)

Virtual Workshop #3: Saturday, March 19, 2022

CREATOR/DESTROYER JOURNEY

Conducted by Olisa Enrico-Johnson

Born into a life of music Olisa Enrico-Johnson began exploring theatre in 2003.  She received her BFA in performance in 2007 and an MFA in Theater Pedagogy in 2010 from Virginia Commonwealth University where she studied closely under Professor Janet Rodgers exploring a fascinating synergy between Archetypes for the Actor and Ritual Poetic Drama Within the African Continuum. During her years working with Janet, she developed the Creator/Destroyer archetype journey.

Peta Lily - Archetype Journey: Death as Gatekeeper (including the Carnival Dance)
November 13, 2021

1pm – 3pm East Coast (EST), 10 – 12 noon (PST) 6pm – 8.00pm in UK (GMT)

Conducted Peta Lily

Peta Lily is a UK-based award-winning performer, theatre maker, director and workshop leader.

She teaches at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art as well as leading her own open courses. She teaches Clown, mask work and physical theatre and has developed the new genre of Dark Clown.​