Motion Theater

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

Registration is accessed through the Motion Theater website.

PRIVATE SESSIONS

Nina is available to anyone interested in creating a performance work, editing writing, developing skills and confidence in public speaking and presentations, enhancing creative expression … whatever your project or goal may be, Nina will help you see it through.

Registration is accessed through the Motion Theater website.

Learn more about Motion Theater here.

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Refund Policy

We do our best to keep our fees very affordable and hope you understand that there are many administrative hours and costs that are involved in running our programs. We also understand that things come up for people and want to accommodate your change of plans as best we can. So here is our refund policy:

The registration fee for Motion’s online and in person events is non-refundable. If you withdraw within two weeks prior to the first session, the fee you paid can be applied to a future Motion Theater workshop within one year (less 20% processing fee).

* All ONLINE workshop sessions are recorded and available for 4 weeks after the final workshop session. The links will be sent to you each week (only for those registered for a multi-week series).

* Motion will consider refund requests due to an extraordinary circumstance or emergency on a case by case basis if you withdraw within one week prior to the first session. To request a refund of this nature, please contact us and explain your situation.