UMO Workshops: Theater In Motion

UMO recently completed a successful six-week residency at the University of Southern Florida, as well as teaching at Cornish, Evergreen, Amherst, Bowdoin and over 1000 workshops and educational offerings in the past ten years.

UMO is a six-member physical theatre ensemble that creates collaboratively through improvisation to develop vital, dynamic and multidisciplinary performance. UMO uses masks, movement, music, aerial and balancing acrobatics, puppets, text and character in the styles of Mask, Buffoon and Clown theatre as seen in El Dorado, Body Inheritance, Expressions of the Spirit, Caravan of Dreams, Millennium Circus and Cities: Conversations in the Court of the Khan.

For the past ten years, UMO has toured theatres, festivals and universities both nationally and internationally.

Current Workshops:

Circus Skills Classes for Adults
UMO Ensemble, the Northwest's premiere physical theatre company is offering workshops in Aerial Rope and Acro-balancing.

Previous Workshops:

THE MASK IN PERFORMANCE: A Master Workshop for All Artists
This master workshop is an intensive introduction to the use of masks as instruments to stimulate discovery, invention and artistic creation. The context is theatrical but the masks and the process are designed to inspire and challenge artists from all disciplines.

Aerial Workshop
Learn the exhilarating discipline of low flying aerial trapeze.

Writing, Creating Original Performance
The Summer Intensive is an opportunity for performers to hone their skills of visioning, designing and creating their own original materials for performance.

The Architecture of Emotion
An intensive workshop exploring physical and emotional space.

Acro-balancing
After a thrilling summer of performing acro-balancing on the ring of the Space Needle, UMO Ensemble is teaching these skills to anyone looking to develop or sharpen their skills.

PlayWrite
An Interactive Assembly using Writing and Improvisation