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"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." - Virginia Woolf
"Everything begins as a story we tell about ourselves..." Jeannette Winterson
WINTER SESSION 2026
January 19 - March 10
2 STREAMS - 8 WEEK SESSIONS
Online: MONDAYS 10:00-11:00am
In Person: TUESDAYS 12:30-2:30pm
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Maximum 6 participants
IGAC Studio, 180 Shaw St, #103
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IN PERSON:
​Regular $350 / session
Generous $400 / session
Subsidized $275 / session
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ONLINE:
$275 / session
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If cost is a barrier to your participation in the course, please contact us by email at sara@saraporter.ca.
WATCH: ​Sara Porter Introduces Memoir & Movement
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​Sara Porter’s trademark workshop that integrates movement, writing, voice, and performance techniques to generate, explore and craft personal material geared toward performance.
Developed over a decade of building memoir-based performance, Sara offers workshops designed to support the growth of each artists unique voice in artmaking and performing.
Each class includes guided movement improvisation, vocal work, creative writing, and integration. Expand artistic boundaries and articulate stories within your bodies and voice. Hear your own voice tell your own story - in words, movement, voice, song, costume.
We gather for creative play through the structure of a workshop. We'll explore writing through movement – and movement through writing, performing, not performing, voicework and 'voice' work. We play to explore and expand the muscle of imagination. The workshop is equal parts structured and lead by the path of imaginations of the people present. We explore each artist's unique creative proclivities, and pathways to creation. Lead in the style of serious fun, absurd earnestness and with both reverent and irreverent approaches to technical work.
Also available for one-on-one sessions - for performance or personal creative growth - and as a dramaturge for solo productions.
photo by Jay Tse
Wonderful, generous and so beautifully creative
You are a great teacher and facilitator. You led us through this rich, subtle process of listening & noticing with such humour, light, and instinct
This class, at this time, was a gift
A heart-lifting experience
PARTICIPANTS SAY...
images from William Yong's film of Sara Porter's Getting to Know your Fruit - about how to make a memoir in movement
OTHER ARTISTS SAY...
"Working with Sara Porter in her ‘Memoir & Movement’ course has inspired me to rework my solo contemporary circus show; Twist of Fate from 2008. Sara has a fantastic way of pulling out dialogue from people that is poetic and meaningful. Through her own created exercises, she asks you to dig deep into your past and express memory through writing, sound and movement."
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- Angola Murdoch, Lookup Theatre
"As actor-performers, we are either creating when working for/ or collaborating in projects; participating in time framed, structured workshops, or practicing alone in our own private spaces. Sara’s weekly sessions provide us with a rare, and unique opportunity of creating individually, privately yet in the company of others regularly spread over a couple of months. They are precious time windows where we explore our own individual body-mind-movement with Sara’s guidance, sharing it simultaneously. It’s an hour of joyful movement-dance improvisation, creative writing, and inspiring conversations about performance creation. I’m grateful! “
- Itir Arditi _ actor, June 2023
Angola Murdoch (Twist of Fate) and Holly Treddenick (In the Fire) developed works through Memoir & Movement Workshops