Shake Shook Shaken is a theater/movement workshop series produced by Julie Meckler. The series is designed for people to gently bring body awareness, allowing participants to open up, explore outside of their comfort zone, bond with each other, create and show. By playing with these concepts using our bodies, voices, words, and each other, we will explore our own awareness and sensitivity as artists and people.
Shake Shook Shaken is a dream of what a safe space could allow. A vision of a place for everybody to gather, look at each other, play and create in a non judgmental, trauma-informed way. It’s an invitation, a journey within and out, a surprise. Each workshop is unique. This month we’ll have Joey Meland and Julie leading on the topic of CONVERSATION.
No prior dance or acting experience is necessary, just willingness to move and exhale. This workshop series is for anyone and everyone.
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
Artist Bio
Joey Meland (any pronouns) is a performer, composer, and educator who seeks to share the ebullient meaning-making possible within musical expression. This year Joey has spent a lot of time with their "Cocojoey" project, maintaining an active touring and performance schedule. Other recent highlights include creating music and sound design for Rough House Theater’s House of the Exquisite Corpse show, teaching composition with Nois Saxophone quartet as part of their Young Creator Fellowship program, producing music for Disney, and releasing an album called "COCOJOEY'S WORLD" which music critic Anthony Fantano called: "DANK".
Julie Meckler is a French/American multi-disciplinary performing artist. After a career in France in theater as an actress, director and educator, she reinvented herself, moved by herself to the USA and became a singer-songwriter She's been part of the Chicago music scene since 2008, and released a critically acclaimed album in 2013. She's also a storyteller, a birth educator, a doula, a Social-Emotional-Learning Specialist and a French teacher. All of her experiences inform and nourish each workshop.