DEEP PLAY PDX PERFORMANCE TROUPE WEEKEND IMMERSION
A WEEKEND OF IMMERSIVE PLAY & PERFORMANCE
FLOCK & Performance Works NorthWest, Portland OR
Workshop: Saturday April 5th 12:30-5:30pm, 2025
Optional Durational Performance: Sunday April 6th 12-5pm, 2025
$50-100
Come join The PDX Deep Play Performance Troupe and take part in an immersive deep dive into our December 2024 piece Thresholding. This is a chance to fully transition from audience-witness into participant, as we guide you through the improvisational structures and deep play methodologies of our piece (Saturday), and then give you an opportunity to perform with us (Sunday).
Participants should arrive well rested and well fed as both days contain a durational component. On Saturday we will begin promptly at 12:30pm with an opening circle, agreements, and then some warmup games. The main activity of our day on Saturday will be teaching a long-form deep play improvisational structure that will be performed together on Sunday in a durational performance. On Sunday please arrive at 12pm for one hour of setup and warmup. And then 1-5pm will be our durational performance. Participants do not need to be “active” in the piece the entire time, but staying in the performance space for the entire time is required. For both days it is recommended that everyone bring snacks, water bottle, and a journal. Participants are welcome to only attend the Saturday workshop component.
Additionally, this weekend immersion functions as an initiatory experience for anyone interested in becoming a full-fledged member of the PDX Deep Play Performance Troupe. After the weekend immersion we will reach out to participants interested in joining to have a final audition before potentially joining the troupe. Of course participants may choose to attend the weekend who have no interest in joining the troupe as a full-fledged member. And there will be other opportunities to audition for the troupe for those interested but who aren't able to give this amount of commitment at this time.
Please read below about Thresholding (our December 2024 piece that this workshop/performance is based upon) to get a better sense of what the weekend will be like.
Unfolding at the intersection of ritual, play, and inquiry, Thresholding is a performative exploration of liminality—the dynamic borderlands between order and chaos, art and therapy, sense and nonsense, performer and audience. At its core, the piece weaves together a series of structured improvisational games and ceremonies designed to engage the mysteries of presence, transformation, and collective imagination. This debut performance by the Deep Play Institute’s PDX Performance Troupe draws on psychodramatic techniques, surrealist language games, rule-based improvisational systems, conversation scores, and vocal experiments. The troupe operates as a living laboratory for "deep play," inhabiting the fluid space between safety and risk, individuality and collectivity, buoyancy and heaviness, centeredness and marginality.
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Price: Price is tiered based on an sliding scales of income/subsistence and ranges from $50-100
Sliding Scale: Please try to reasonably and honestly select the price that reflects your economic situation. If you are unable to find a price that is suitable for you, please get in touch [[email protected]]. We are committed to covering our basic costs, while also making this possible for everyone who needs it.
Location: Our Saturday workshop will be at FLOCK 2516 NW 29th Ave. Our Sunday durational performance will be at Performance Works NorthWest. 4625 SE 67th Ave.
Timing: Our workshop will begin promptly at 12:30pm on Saturday and go until 5:30pm. Participants are encourage to arrive 15 minutes early, as we will begin promptly at 12:30 and we will be unable to accommodate late arrivals. On Sunday, we will arrive at 12pm for 1-hour of warmups before the durational performance which will begin promptly at 1pm and go for 4 hours ending at 5pm. Participants do not need to be active during the entire performance, but must stay in the performance space .
Maximum Participants: 15
Covid Policy: We will follow CDC protocol regarding covid isolation and engagement. If any participant has symptoms of covid (i.e. cold symptoms), we ask you to please take a home-test and if you test positive you cannot attend the workshop. If you test negative, and you are sick, we ask you to still wear a mask (as tests can deliver false negatives). For everyone else, masks are optional.
Cancellation Policy: Refunds are available up to 30 days before the event - minus a $20 processing fee. After this time we are unable to provide a refund for the event. Partial refunds might be given if a cancellation takes place under extenuating circumstances (e.g. a death of a 1st or 2nd degree family member, serious non-preventable illness or accident requiring hospitalization). Refunds in such cases remain at the discretion of the local organizers and will be decided on a case to case basis according to the timing of the cancellation and other factors.
Out of Town Participants: The Deep Play Institute is not able to provide accommodations for out-of-town participants. DPI is also not able to refund any travel or housing costs in the unlikely event of cancellation.
About the Deep Play Institute The Deep Play Institute is a nonprofit organization committed to exploring life’s deepest questions through transformative play. DPI’s facilitators – therapists, artists, coaches, and philosophers – aim to use play to bring people into an experiential questioning of what it means to exist. Each program that DPI runs is a unique container, creatively constructed and inspired by practices that include: Gestalt therapy, Process Work, Psychodrama, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Tavistock Group Relations, Relational Psychoanalysis, Authentic Relating, Nonviolent Communication, Circling, coaching, performance art, contact improvisation, experimental theater, LARPs, surrealism, existential games, and various schools of meditation.
Participants should arrive well rested and well fed as both days contain a durational component. On Saturday we will begin promptly at 12:30pm with an opening circle, agreements, and then some warmup games. The main activity of our day on Saturday will be teaching a long-form deep play improvisational structure that will be performed together on Sunday in a durational performance. On Sunday please arrive at 12pm for one hour of setup and warmup. And then 1-5pm will be our durational performance. Participants do not need to be “active” in the piece the entire time, but staying in the performance space for the entire time is required. For both days it is recommended that everyone bring snacks, water bottle, and a journal. Participants are welcome to only attend the Saturday workshop component.
Additionally, this weekend immersion functions as an initiatory experience for anyone interested in becoming a full-fledged member of the PDX Deep Play Performance Troupe. After the weekend immersion we will reach out to participants interested in joining to have a final audition before potentially joining the troupe. Of course participants may choose to attend the weekend who have no interest in joining the troupe as a full-fledged member. And there will be other opportunities to audition for the troupe for those interested but who aren't able to give this amount of commitment at this time.
Please read below about Thresholding (our December 2024 piece that this workshop/performance is based upon) to get a better sense of what the weekend will be like.
Unfolding at the intersection of ritual, play, and inquiry, Thresholding is a performative exploration of liminality—the dynamic borderlands between order and chaos, art and therapy, sense and nonsense, performer and audience. At its core, the piece weaves together a series of structured improvisational games and ceremonies designed to engage the mysteries of presence, transformation, and collective imagination. This debut performance by the Deep Play Institute’s PDX Performance Troupe draws on psychodramatic techniques, surrealist language games, rule-based improvisational systems, conversation scores, and vocal experiments. The troupe operates as a living laboratory for "deep play," inhabiting the fluid space between safety and risk, individuality and collectivity, buoyancy and heaviness, centeredness and marginality.
–🌾— PRACTICALS DETAILS —🌾–
Price: Price is tiered based on an sliding scales of income/subsistence and ranges from $50-100
Sliding Scale: Please try to reasonably and honestly select the price that reflects your economic situation. If you are unable to find a price that is suitable for you, please get in touch [[email protected]]. We are committed to covering our basic costs, while also making this possible for everyone who needs it.
Location: Our Saturday workshop will be at FLOCK 2516 NW 29th Ave. Our Sunday durational performance will be at Performance Works NorthWest. 4625 SE 67th Ave.
Timing: Our workshop will begin promptly at 12:30pm on Saturday and go until 5:30pm. Participants are encourage to arrive 15 minutes early, as we will begin promptly at 12:30 and we will be unable to accommodate late arrivals. On Sunday, we will arrive at 12pm for 1-hour of warmups before the durational performance which will begin promptly at 1pm and go for 4 hours ending at 5pm. Participants do not need to be active during the entire performance, but must stay in the performance space .
Maximum Participants: 15
Covid Policy: We will follow CDC protocol regarding covid isolation and engagement. If any participant has symptoms of covid (i.e. cold symptoms), we ask you to please take a home-test and if you test positive you cannot attend the workshop. If you test negative, and you are sick, we ask you to still wear a mask (as tests can deliver false negatives). For everyone else, masks are optional.
Cancellation Policy: Refunds are available up to 30 days before the event - minus a $20 processing fee. After this time we are unable to provide a refund for the event. Partial refunds might be given if a cancellation takes place under extenuating circumstances (e.g. a death of a 1st or 2nd degree family member, serious non-preventable illness or accident requiring hospitalization). Refunds in such cases remain at the discretion of the local organizers and will be decided on a case to case basis according to the timing of the cancellation and other factors.
Out of Town Participants: The Deep Play Institute is not able to provide accommodations for out-of-town participants. DPI is also not able to refund any travel or housing costs in the unlikely event of cancellation.
About the Deep Play Institute The Deep Play Institute is a nonprofit organization committed to exploring life’s deepest questions through transformative play. DPI’s facilitators – therapists, artists, coaches, and philosophers – aim to use play to bring people into an experiential questioning of what it means to exist. Each program that DPI runs is a unique container, creatively constructed and inspired by practices that include: Gestalt therapy, Process Work, Psychodrama, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Tavistock Group Relations, Relational Psychoanalysis, Authentic Relating, Nonviolent Communication, Circling, coaching, performance art, contact improvisation, experimental theater, LARPs, surrealism, existential games, and various schools of meditation.
ABOUT THE TROUPE
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Aaron Finbloom (director) is a philosopher, artist, therapist, and educator whose work aims to expand transformative inquiry through relational games, role play, performance art, and conversation scores. bloom davis is an artist, facilitator, and storyteller dedicated to creating spaces for transformation, connection, and play. Katie Eichner is a therapist whose spiritual practice is her naked ass in the river. Kathryn Frey is a Portland-based performance artist, yoga teacher, and aspiring cartographer of liminal spaces who channels creative angst into embodied resistance. Sarah Radelet has a curiosity for growth and understanding that spurs ongoing movement in her thoughts, emotions and physical body and is reflected in this Deep Play.
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