This intensive three-hour workshop invites dancers, physical actors, and movers to explore the intersection of rigorous physical discipline and the internal landscape of the imagination. Drawing from the gravity-defying power of Suzuki training, the vibrant poetics of France’s Théâtre du Soleil (not to be confused with Cirque du Soleil!), and applied mindfulness, we will investigate how to let imagery activate the senses to create compelling, haunting moments onstage.

Participants will engage in Authentic Movement, Deep Listening and Silence Work, Zero Body, and Slow Tempo, and will devise material in a creative assignment. 

This workshop serves as a laboratory for a new work Héctor is developing for the Fly on a Wall Fellowship. While open to all, the session will also function as an organic way to identify potential collaborators for his upcoming project.

How do we translate an impossible image into physical action? How does the body become a vessel for stage poetry?

WHEN:

Sunday February 15, from 2:00 pm to 5:00pm

WHERE:

Fly on a Wall  

2450 Piedmont Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30324

PRICE:

Tickets: $35

Student price: $25 

CAPACITY:

6-20 participants. This workshop requires a minimum of 6 participants, so please share within your communities to help populate the workshop. Registration is first come, first served and will cap at 20 participants.

PARKING:

https://www.flyonawall.buzz/contact

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Héctor Alvarez is an interdisciplinary artist working in performance, theater, film, and opera. His work has been praised as “visually gorgeous and fulsome, so rich and sensitive in detail” (The Chicago Reader) and has been presented in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Madrid, Hong Kong, and Mexico City.

A Princess Grace Award Winner, Drama League Directing Fellow, and Watson Fellow, Héctor was previously an artist in residence at the Antonio Gala Foundation in Spain. In 2025, he was awarded Opera America’s Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Award. He currently resides in Atlanta, where he serves as Assistant Teaching Professor of Theater Studies at Emory University.