Motion Theater Workshop

An 8-week workshop with Nina Wise

8-week series
Thursdays, 7–9pm
February 5 – March 26
West End Studio Theater, 1554 4th Street, San Rafael

Motion Theater is a form of embodied autobiographical storytelling — where memory, imagination, and lived experience find expression through movement, voice, and presence. In this 8-week workshop, Nina invites you into a gentle yet powerful process of listening to the body and allowing stories to emerge without the need for scripted text.

The work unfolds in a safe, supportive, and playful space that honors curiosity, joy, and creative risk. Through improvisation, sensory exploration, gesture, and physical theater practices, participants move between solo, duet, and ensemble work, discovering how personal stories deepen through relationship and shared presence.

Motion Theater is both an art form and a spiritual practice — a way of cultivating awareness, authenticity, and connection. The process is uplifting and imaginative, grounded in respect for individual boundaries and collective care.

Participants leave feeling nourished and enlivened, carrying with them new tools for embodied storytelling, a deeper trust in their creative instincts, and a renewed sense of connection — to themselves, to others, and to the living act of performance.

Open to all.

$375

About Nina

Nina Wise is an award-winning writer, theater artist and dharma teacher. Her book, A Big New Free Happy Unusual Life: Self-Expression and Spiritual Practice for Those Who Have Time for Neither was published by Broadway Books/Random House and translated into German and Portuguese. Her stories and essays have been featured in numerous journals including The Sun, Yoga Journal, Tricycle, Shambhala Sun, and collected in anthologies. She has been awarded multiple fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, Marin Arts Council, Theater Bay Area, Society for Experiments in Contemporary Art to name just a few. More here.

Refund Policy

We understand the unexpected can arise. And we want to do our best to support your utmost well being however, because we are limiting the number of participants in this workshop, we will not be able to offer refunds. In case of severe illness that prohibits you from completing the workshop, we will discuss on an individual basis applying a pro-rated amount of your fee to a future workshop.