Kate Kantor

We organise to do two workshops with Kate before we find out about Arts Vic, to start. To start working together. For us to get t know her and her to know us. For us to have someone there the first time we start to play impro together.

She shows up at the Dancehouse in her pigtails and red coat and is immediately friendly and funny. We do up-balloons to warm up and laugh. She is gentle with our clowns as we find fun costumes to wear. Christy’s face softens behind her nose and her eyes go sweet and quiet. Luke turns into a little boy dominated by the idea of a motorbike. He wears my leather jacket which fits him beautifully. Kate leads us through Feldenkreis on the floor. She asks our clowns to do advertisements selling darkness, the sky, clouds. Make up jingles, dance, keep going through the awkward and the flop because you’ll find something. Be curios, childlike and get commercial. You want the audience to love you. Check if they love you. Check if they think you’re doing it right. Make it up. You’re always the expert and you don’t know anything.

We lie on the floor and write our childhood superhero stories in quick stream-of-concious scribbles. We impro with them in our minds and fall in love with the language. With the storytelling.

We love Kate and we think we could do an 8 hour session with her and not feel tired. We say, ‘as soon as we find out about Arts Vic we’ll talk to you.’ Wave goodbye on the Dancehouse front step.