Nina Wise’s Motion Theater

Class Description

Motion Theater® is a dynamic practice that blends movement, storytelling, and improvisation. A Motion Theater workshop is designed to cultivate spontaneity, creativity, and embodied presence. Through guided exercises, participants translate inner experience into movement and narrative, discovering fresh ways to express themselves with authenticity and ease.

This workshop is both playful and skill-building. In a supportive environment, you will:

  • Explore the connection between body, imagination, and voice
  • Learn tools for creative expression and improvisational performance
  • Cultivate mindfulness and presence through movement
  • Experience the joy of spontaneous storytelling
  • Deepen your capacity for authentic self-expression and connection

No performance background is required—just curiosity and a willingness to move, play, and discover. Whether you are an artist, a seeker, an actor, a writer, or simply someone longing for a deeper relationship with creativity and embodiment, this workshop offers an opportunity to unlock new pathways of expression.

 

What’s Included

  • Nina Wise offers a 6-week workshop in Motion Theater® a form of improvised, autobiographical storytelling.In a Motion Theater class, you’ll learn to tell your stories on your feet, utilizing language, sound and movement as your tools of expression.In each workshop you’ll:
    • Warm up and free up your body and voice
    • Move in response to your inner impulses
    • Play theater games that open you up and generate creativity and well-being
    • Hone your writing and storytelling skills
    • Embody your personal narrative
    • Engage in uplifting adult play

    Motion Theater practices are designed to raise your spirits, inspire personal insight,  create community, expand awareness, enhance self-confidence and develop presence and craft as a leader or performer.

    Motion has been described by both participants and audiences as funny, moving, liberating and transformational. Motion is playful, mindful self-expression where you’re likely to experience a freer more spontaneous you.

Fall 2026 Schedule

Program Dates: September 10-October 15

Thursdays | 7-9 PM | 6 weeks

In-person at The Marsh Berkeley

Tuition

Regular Tuition: $395

Cancellation Policy

If you cancel before the first session, you will be refunded any tuition amount over $50 that you have paid. Service fees are non-refundable. If you cancel after the first session, you will be refunded half the tuition. If you cancel any time after the second session, you will receive no refund. Cancellations must be made with a Marsh staff person by calling 415-282-3055 or emailing boxoffice@themarsh.org.