Inclusive Body Workshop: “Hello! The Me Hidden in My Heart!”, “Shh! I Have Something to Tell You!”

Registration opens 5.11 (Mon). Results announced by 6.8 (Mon). See website for details.

★ Move our bodies without speaking and enjoy the beauty of co-creation

★ Use our imagination to express our emotions and our bodies to speak our minds

Theatre is a space where everyone can experience and enjoy; inclusion allows every talent and lifestyle to be seen and respected. “Inclusive Body Workshop” that was held for the first time in 2025 received such overwhelmingly positive feedback that it returns this year to resume the journey with two workshops, “Hello! The Me Hidden in My Heart!” and “Shh! I Have Something to Tell You!” Moreover, the two-day workshop offers deeper experience as everyone is invited to use their imagination and learn to speak their minds with their bodies.

“Hello! The Me Hidden in My Heart!” is a one-day lightweight workshop that leads the participants to say hello to their inner selves through their own bodies – to play with their shy selves, accompany their angry selves to vent their anger, and to dance with their happy selves. “Shh! I Have Something to Tell You!” is a two-day continuous exploratory workshop, in which the participants use more time to deepen the emotional expression of their bodies and together, they show their collective creation in the form of theatre.

Both hearing and deaf instructors are invited to the workshops to lead the participants to embark on this exploratory journey that is silent and yet full of bodily senses. Starting with learning about ourselves, we explore the connection between body and emotions and then through the practice of imagination, we try to use our bodies and objects to practice how to express, allowing our indescribable inner thoughts to be transformed by art and to speak our minds with our bodies. It allows theatre to become an inclusive space, in which everyone can freely express and share; furthermore, supported by diversity, we cross the boundary between language and perception and create a precious moment, in which we keep each other company.