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heightens our abilities to both express and receive, lead and follow, storytell and story-listen," says Ms. Port man.
"This is for everybody. You don’t need to be a professional to take part in this. Anybody who works in the performing arts, anyone interested in the creative process, anyone who wants to write or tell stories of their own is welcome."
Similar workshops offered last year in New England drew such varied artists as musicians from the Midwest, a choreographer from Israel. the director of the Oral History Center in Cambridge. Mass., a mask maker from Washington, D. C., and poets, writers, actors, and actresses from New York and Boston.
“We’re doing it down here because we want our center of activity to be here," says Ms. Portman, who with her husband Paul Reisler now lives in Washington, Ya.
“This is a very wonderful and gifted community," she says of their new home in Rappahannock County. “It is so varied and rich, and there’s a tremendous sense of pride and individuality — and all are important to the consciousness of the community. It’s a great gift to have an environment like this in which to work.
“We’re looking for space here to have a homebase for interdisciplinary performing arts,” says The Golden Key’s artistic director. In the meantime, she adds, “the closest place we could find was Sevenoaks," the 130-acre retreat center located in the Blue Ridge foothills of Madison County.
For more information on registration and cost for the five-dav workshop, contact Ms. Portman at Route 1, Box 42C, Woodville, Va. 22740, telephone (703) 987-3164.
And to everyone — theatre goers, art lovers, story' listeners, and folks simply curious about such interdisciplinary collaborations — The Golden Key extends an open invitation to come to Sevenoaks at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 29, for an informal presentation of the work created during the workshop.
“At the center of it is the story,” says Ms. Portman. "It will be a collection of tales that live in the timelessness of our imagination. Stories speak to all ages, to the impulses and capacities within us, to our anxieties and to our aspirations.”
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