Participants are asked to come to the studio with a scrap of conversation overheard publicly, a picture of a specific place or person in the city, a gesture or series of gestures that they observed in their everyday walks, a torn piece of text found on the street or metro.

These found materials are things that pulled you towards them, attracted your attention, even if you are not completely sure why. Together, we will create our own response to our city and its current dialogue with us.

Through an interdisciplinary approach, participants work with excavating these phrases overheard on the bus, movement studies from the street, found sounds and texts to develop their own response to the city.

Participants will work in the studio with further writing, movement and installation experiments to explore ways in which we can re-enliven our city-life, both internally and externally. The workshop concludes with informal in-studio showings that seek to link what has been found with a larger vision of what could be possible.

Dancers, writers, visual and sound artists are welcome. 

The workshop Jane led for my company NEW NOISE was a joy - thoughtful, inviting, fast-paced and accessible to participants with differing levels of experience. 

She eased us into a state of body awareness, and then seamlessly transitioned us through multiple disciplines - writing, gesture, visual images and speech. 

I was surprised by how many seeds of performances came out of those few hours we spent together. One piece of writing from Jane's workshop even made it into a devised show crafted by one of the artists in the room! 

Jane put the group at ease, and in doing so, opened up our creative potential.

- Joanna Russo, Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director

New Noise theater, New Orleans

PSi / Performance Studies International #18, Univ of Leeds, UK

La Elastica, Montréal Canada (3-week creative residency salon)

Movement Research, NYC