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 David Seeber and Julie leading on the topic of PLAY.
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 Bios
David Seeber is a Chicago-based performer, clown, musician, and educator guided by his curiosity, joy, and a sense of play. Since 2011, David has been creating ambient, down-tempo sound experiments under the name Otto Rollo that evoke the mountains, forests, and rivers of his childhood. He has played his music at the Empty Bottle, Comfort Station, Sleeping Village, and the Burlington. As an actor, he has performed at Steppenwolf Theatre, Steep Theatre, and the Blue Man Group. In his other life, David is an avid unicycle rider, canoeist, partner, and cat dad. He is also the Training and Education Program Supervisor at Sarah's Inn, a domestic violenc agency in Forest Park.
David has been attending Shake Shook Shaken for a year and is so excited to be collaborating with Julie on this project.
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.