About our program

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.

What is Our Vision?

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.

Upcoming WorkshopS

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Upcoming WorkshopS *

This month we’ll have Krissy bergmark and Julie leading on the topic of revolutions.

What revolutions are happening within you?
How do internal and external cycles affect each other?
The joy of playing together will guide us to explore and create.
Let's loop, walk, layer and build.

Artist Bios

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 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.

Krissy Bergmark is a tabla player, percussionist, composer, and educator. Bergmark centers her creative work on bringing tabla to new genres and cross-genres through composition and performance with a grounded understanding of the traditions of the instrument. She has received commissions and grants through the Jerome Foundation, Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Cedar Cultural Center for her tabla studies and compositions for tabla, percussion, and strings. She composes and performs as a solo artist, with trio Sprig of That, and with artists across the US and internationally. Bergmark a professor at Oakton College, and studies tabla with Pandit Yogesh Samsi in the Punjab Gharana. You can stay updated on her latest projects and performances via www.krissybergmark.com, Facebook, and Instagram.