Heather Lundy—Bio, Training and other Tidbits
Heather Lundy is a Choreographer, Licensed Action Theater Teacher, and Dance/Movement Therapist. Heather has been teaching and performing improvisation for over 15 years, both in the US and abroad. Heather is also certified in and offers private instruction in several body-based disciplines including Yoga, Pilates, and Modern Dance Technique. She holds a Master's Degree in Dance/Movement Therapy and an undergraduate degree in English Literature and Performance.
Heather's early training began as a dancer and gymnast. Her formal training includes 15 years of Action Theater™ training, Pilates Mat and Allegro, Laban, Butoh, Middle Eastern Dance, Hawkins Technique, Dance and Contact Improvisation, Yoga, Horton Technique, and various forms of performance work.
Heather is Director of Noise Posse Productions, a production company dedicated to producing improvised performance and training in Improvisational Physical Theater.
In her spare time she is a partner in a DC-based government contract consulting firm, Administrative Coordinator for the ZAP, LLC, a professional Dance/Movement Therapist, Co-Director of Dance and Company (a modern dance company for young people), and a Yoga/Pilates instructor.
Heather produces Action Theater workshops and performances in the US and abroad. She never sleeps. You can stalk her at www.myspace.com/improvdivalundy
About Physical Theater Improvisation
Heather Lundy practices Physical Theater Improvisation, an improvisational performance practice in which the performer opens to the world of spontaneous narrative expressed through language, movement, and sound. Physical Theater Improvisation is a practice for cultivating kinesthetic awareness, honing stage skills, and a medium for performance.
The improvisor is the vessel for expression and the content is always new. Improvised physical performance allows the performer to craft the unexpected, embrace the non-linear and ride the wild waves of story through the ineffable possibilities of embodied expression. The form increases a performer's ability to hold and articulate experience.
Heather's performance style, teaching and practice is heavily influenced by Action Theater™. Heather is a licensed Action Theater instructor.
What is Action Theater?
Action Theater (AT) is a matriculated training system for learning and practicing the art of improvisation. AT was developed by Master Improvisor Ruth Zaporah. A body-based discipline, AT is designed to assist students in deconstructing habitual patterns in the areas of movement, sound, and voice. Action Theater training provides a venue for students to integrate mind and body while enlivening the imagination.
AT differs from other types of improvisational study in that the participants to do not practice "roles" in scenes. Instead, the improvisor follows the changing content of their imagination responding with physical, vocal and/or verbal action. Improvisors expand their in-the-moment awareness to include sensation, feeling, thought, memory, imagination, and intuition.
Students of Action Theater can earn hours towards Practitioner and Teacher levels of training. For more, visit www.actiontheater.com.