Deepening Your Performance (Activism) A Six-Week Online Activistic Course Led by Dan Friedman, Co-Convener Performing the World

Social change movements are on the move with new forces and tactics emerging virtually everyday. The world is bubbling with new creative approaches to social change—among them a growing performance activism movement.  Join this intensive online course led by ESI faculty and Castillo Theatre Artistic Director Dan Friedman. Read about pioneering performance activists and dive into exploring your own social change/ educational/ helping work through the lens of performance and development. Perfect for social justice activists, community organizers, theatre, dance and other artists, therapists, teachers, after-school youth workers, social and medical workers. Discover and deepen the activism in your performances and the performance in your activism.

*Conversations are asynchronous, participants are in different time zones reading and posting messages according to their own schedule.

Nov 6 - Dec 17 Includes 4 Zoom Sessions: Nov 8,22 & Dec 6,13 Registration: $135 Low Income: $75

Dan Friedman is the artistic director of the Castillo Theatre in New York City and the associate dean of UX, the All Stars Project’s free university-like school of continuing development for people of all ages. He is the author or co-author of 17 plays. Dan is also the editor of a number of books, including Theatre for Working Class Audiences in the United States, 1830-1980 (Greenwood Press, 1983) and The Cultural Politics of Heiner Müller (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007). He is currently working on a book for Palgrave on the emerging performance activism movement around the world. In addition to his work at Castillo, Dan has directed at La Mama E.T.C., the Nuyorican Poets Café and various New York City colleges.