Shake Shook Shaken is a monthly 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.

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 Gaby Martinez and Julie leading on the topic of SPRINGING!

No prior dance or acting experience is necessary, just willingness to move and exhale. This workshop series is for anyone and everyone.

$15-$50 Sliding Scale

Artist Bios

Gabriella, Gaby, Martinez is a multi-disciplinary performing Artist and educator living in Chicago, IL. Gaby is the proud daughter of late Dominican Immigrant from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and grew up in Cleveland, OH. With a Bachelors of Science in Psychology and Dance, Gaby continues to find connections between both realms of study through her practices, performances, and teachings. She is a paraprofessional at a Chicago Public School, the Associate Artistic Director of SheWolf Sacred LLC, a performer with Improv group Freedom From Freedom To, and facilitates workshops at community spaces such as Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

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.