The Maine Stage – Workshops

10:00 – 11:00 AM: Yoga w/ Mov(e)volve

Enjoy a refreshing, all-levels yoga class designed to stretch, strengthen, and reset your body and mind. Whether you’ve been practicing for years or are just starting, this class offers movement variations to meet you where you are, leaving you feeling energized and ready to embrace whatever the day has in store. Focus on breathwork, gentle movements, and mindful stretching to release tension, build both mental and physical flexibility and resilience, and create a calming sense of balance. Come as you are, and leave feeling rejuvenated.

Maximum of 15 students
Cost: Sliding scale
Sign-up link: https://katrinachristie.offeringtree.com/schedule/cb657b9c-687f-47ad-8868-200de79c4355_1758376800

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Weirdlesque w/ Bee Kay Esq

Are you looking to spice your acts up? Are you bored with being merely breathtaking? Do you need to feel the audience’s palpable disgust and awe? In this workshop, we’ll talk about the process of building truly upsetting pieces while still getting booked!

Maximum of 20 students
Cost: Suggested $15 / Sliding scale
Sign-up link: https://tally.so/r/np25lJ

1:00 – 2:00 PM: Chair Tricks w/ Jojo Faye

Dive into the sultry and captivating world of chair dance in Jojo Faye’s Chair Trick Workshop where you will refine your strength, balance, and control! This class is designed to introduce you to the art of using a chair as a dance prop, blending sensual movement with technique. Whether you’re a beginner or experienced, this foundations based workshop will enhance your confidence, flexibility, and performance skills while covering balance points, hand placements, and transitions that allow you to safely and confidently execute dynamic chair tricks.

This class is perfect for both beginners or seasoned dancers looking to learn new or level up their chair acro skills. Class will include warm ups, stretching, trick technique, and will end with some light flow choreography to string everything together.

Maximum of 10 Students
Price: Suggested $15 / Sliding scale
Sign-up link: https://tally.so/r/n9KaGp

2:30pm – 3:30pm: Costuming with Intent w/ Miss Information

Learn how to make innovative costumes & reveals for the stage. Miss Information will be covering how to incorporate reveal elements into any costume. This class will be hands on with a skill section you’ll be able to take home and apply to your existing costumes.

Maximum of 15 students
Price: Suggested $15 / Sliding scale
Sign-up link: https://tally.so/r/nPqgzd

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Dear Mx Kitten w/ La Petite Mystique

Join La Petite Mystique, The Kitten of Casco Bay, for Dear Mx. Kitten: a stage management workshop designed for kittens, performers and producers.

We will cover:

  • Discuss case studies of real life stage experiences.
  • Stage management from Pre- show to post show with demonstrations.

Maximum of 15 students
Cost: Suggested $10 / Sliding scale
Sign-up link: https://tally.so/r/mKjdJk

11:30am -12:30 pm Sensual Movement Flow w/ Aquaruis Funkk

Revive your sensual essence in this movement workshop with Aquarius Funkk. This is a space to radically deepen your relationship to sensation, physical expression, and the essence of your spirit.

In this workshop, we will work with experimental movement, somatic exercises, and elements of vogue femme, to deepen your connection to your sensual self. There may be experimentation with props – feel free to bring your own! Expect a liberatory space, free of shame, where experimentation and taking risks is supported & encouraged. This workshop is a way to actively affirm your body as a source of power, strength, expression, and pleasure for yourself.

Wear comfortable clothing, shoes optional. This session is open to all experience levels, all genders, and all bodies (18+).

This workshop is for you if:

  • You want to liberate your body and your expression
  • You have never taken a dance class, but are interested in movement based practice
  • You have some dance or performance experience and are interested in connecting to your sensual essence
  • You are a performer who is interested in expanding your practice
  • You are looking for an affirming movement space for people of all experience levels

Maximum of 20 students
Cost: Suggested $20 / Sliding scale
Sign-up link: https://tally.so/r/nrZzMl

1pm – 2pm Expressive Dance w/ Wildeyed Roxy

This class is a prompt based mental exercise for how you approach movement within the music. 

In the class we will talk about how to visualize movement with in music. We will also discuss how the movement is versatile and how to integrate movement with in your performance. After a some base knowledge is established  you will is be guided on individual musicality through prompts. The class will take you through a series of prompted music and  movement menat exercises. These exercises are meant to established a foundation on how you can personally adapted movement to your performance.

Maximum of # students
Cost: Sliding scale
Sign-up link: https://tally.so/r/wv9oRA

2:30pm – 3:30pm Finding the Basic Audacity : Mixing 101 with Rexx Chaos

You’ve got a fire number and a vision—but your music file is a disaster, your email says “finalfinalREALLASTmix.mp4,” and nobody knows what you’re walking out to.

Let’s fix that.

This is a back-alley crash course in basic audio prep for performers. Rexx Chaos of Alchemy Productions is breaking down how to:

  • Find/source your music
  • Use Audacity to chop it, layer it, and clean it up–avoiding that crunchy-ass audio
  • Export the right file type (goodbye, .wav–files too big to open)
  • Name your files and send a mix without breaking your producer’s soul
    • (most importantly send your shit as an MP3!)

No gatekeeping. No tech jargon. Just real tools, hot takes, and a live demo so you can see how it’s done without needing a degree in sound editing.

Let’s mix it up, with Rexx Chaos!

Maximum of 15 students
Cost: $20
Sign-up link: https://tally.so/r/mZBqqa