When & Where

Saturday 13th January
Workshop 3-5 pm, Shared supper 6pm
Performance 7.00pm with shared supper 6pm
Harmony Centre Mittagong
11 Beresford St, Mittagong NSW

Tuesday 16th January
Tuesday Preview and Sharing 7 pm
Rudolf Steiner House, 307, Sussex Street, Sydney

Bookings

Contact: Renate 0408806468
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About Word Sisters

Word Sisters have been creating as a collaborative community since 2017. We are four creative arts practitioners (performers, storytellers, workshop facilitators, poets, and writers) who have a common background in Anthroposophy. We initially met over 20 years ago exploring Steiner’s Speech and Drama methods through workshops in Western Australia. By combining Steiner’s Speech and Drama indications, eurythmy, creative writing and biography work, we devise performances and related workshops. A playful curiosity and phenomenological research approach has enabled us to craft and share two performance/workshop projects.

Dancing Backwards, performed at the ASinA Perth Conference in 2018, and the Adelaide Fringe in 2019; explored the impact of the planets as vowel qualities within our biographies; and 12 Portals, A Life in 7 Year Cycles, refined in Adelaide in 2022 with Dawn Langman, and performed in Perth, December 2022, and due to be shared in Sydney and Mittagong, January 2024. 12 Portals explores the impacts of the zodiac and consonants within life phases 0-84.

Word Sisters each contributes unique artistic strengths and for over five years have met regularly on Zoom. As three members live in Perth and one in Yamba, NSW, we manage our schedules to work physically together, usually in Perth, to develop works through embodied processes.

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Word Sisters are:

Jenny Hill BA, Dip Ed, M Ed, Dip Speech and Drama, is a professional storyteller with extensive experience in performance, education and community projects. Her present focus is in providing professional development in early childhood education.

Dale Irving BA, Dip Ed, B Ed, M Ed, PhD, is a former public school drama teacher and arts’ educator, who now works with biography consultation after training with Karl-Heinz Finke. She presents courses for the Perth Rudolf Steiner College.

Renate Millonig Dip Speech & Drama (Harkness Studio), BA, Dip Ed, Grad Dip Public Health, Grad Dip Arts, extensive work as performer, director, speaker, trainer and workshop facilitator in mainstream and Steiner-related arts / education contexts.

Rosemary Stevens BA Hons, MA, DCA (PhD) is a published author who teaches creative and professional writing at Curtin University. Her involvement with anthroposophy began in the early 80s as a pioneer parent of the Perth Waldorf School, where she was playgroup leader in the foundational years.

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