Workshops and Classes
Lily Emerson, founder of Lucid Street Theatre, can tailor make a workshop or class series to suit your (or your organization's) needs. Contact Lily at lucidstreet@gmail.com for more information or to propose a new workshop.
For Youth:
Lily has been working with youth from ages 3-18 throughout the Midwest since 2005, and is proud to have worked with such wonderful institutions as Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, After School Matters, and Indiana Repertory Theater, among others.
She has served as the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum's Artist in Residence since 2009.
Class or workshop options include:
Looking for a way to integrate the arts into your curriculum? By collaborating directly with Lily to customize a class series involving your educational themes, you can create an arts experience for your students that will enhance your students' learning experience. Contact her at lucidstreet@gmail.com for more information.
She has served as the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum's Artist in Residence since 2009.
Class or workshop options include:
- Dramatic Arts
- Improvisation
- Ensemble Devising
- (work as a team to create an original performance piece!)
- Creative Movement
- (learn how to use your body as an expressive tool!)
- Music and Movement
- (create an original song as a group!)
Looking for a way to integrate the arts into your curriculum? By collaborating directly with Lily to customize a class series involving your educational themes, you can create an arts experience for your students that will enhance your students' learning experience. Contact her at lucidstreet@gmail.com for more information.
For Adults:
Lily had led Butoh and movement workshops throughout the Midwest (as well as in far-off Minsk, Belarus) with organizations such as Oracle Productions of Chicago, Art Sanctuary of Louisville, and Rondstudio of Minsk.
Workshop options include:
* Introduction to Butoh
"We were asking the actors for impossible physicality. We needed it to be fearless and distinct. Lily's Butoh work drew this potential to the surface and gave them the tools to create a masterpiece."
- Ben Fuchsen, Artistic Director, Oracle Productions
Workshop options include:
* Introduction to Butoh
- * Introduction to Embodied Voice
- * Butoh for Actors
- * Physical Theatre Basics
- * Ensemble / Devising Skills
"We were asking the actors for impossible physicality. We needed it to be fearless and distinct. Lily's Butoh work drew this potential to the surface and gave them the tools to create a masterpiece."
- Ben Fuchsen, Artistic Director, Oracle Productions
