REVEAL workshops

Community Masterclass Workshop series at the Westside Theater

REVEAL: Westside Theater hosts a series of movement workshops to inspire, investigate and reveal aspects of the creative process focusing on movement and dance arts.

These workshops are connected to our season programming and designed to bring guest artists directly into the studio with the Western Montana community, from professional dancers to novice movers to interdisciplinary artists.

2026 | 2027 WORKSHOPS

  • FUSION

    OCT 24 | 9AM - 11AM

    CONTEMPORARY

    This class is designed to improve fluidity of the spine and torso, while giving you a deep understanding of the pelvis and how it can help drive movement. Fusing jazz and contemporary techniques with no judgment on oneself, we will get grounded, explore our physicality and musicality while working on transitions into the floor and around the space. Let’s have FUN!

    Franco Nieto of Open Space from Portland, OR

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  • LeadRoom

    AUG 7 - 9 | 2026

    SCREENDANCE & FILM

    This screendance filmmaking workshop introduces participants to the creative and technical processes involved in making dance films. Through clips, lecture and discussion, as well as hands-on exercises, participants explore how movement, camera work, editing, sound, and location interact to create compelling screen-based choreography. The workshop covers concept development, storyboarding, filming techniques, collaboration between dancers and filmmakers, and post-production editing.

    Suitable for dancers, choreographers, filmmakers, and artists of all experience levels, the program encourages experimentation and the development of original screendance projects.

    LeadRoom 3-day Schedule Aug 7 | 5:30-8pm Aug 8 | 10am-1pm & 2-5pm Aug 9 | 8am-3pm

    Mike Steinberg from Missoula, MT

PAST WORKSHOPS

  • PERFORMANCE

    SEP 2024

    IMPROVISATION & COMPOSITION

    This workshop explores the moving body through improvisation and composition by constructing and deconstructing a phrase. Movers of all levels and abilities are welcome to play with time, space and relationship to self and others.

    Francesca Romo from Jackson, WY

  • PLAY

    OCT 2024

    CONTEMPORARY

    In this workshop participants will explore the relationship between language, gesture and theater and use "play" as a means to unlock the full-potential in their movement. Improvisational tools and phrases utilized during the creation of LED's work, Kid Lightning will be incorporated to stir imaginations and build worlds. 

    Lauren Edson of LED from Boise, ID

  • Presence

    DEC 2024

    ACTION THEATER

    Improvisational training for dancers, musicians and theatrical performers.

    This workshop integrates feeling states with physical movement to develop that elusive yet palpable quality known as presence.

    Shinichi Iova-Koga Authorized Action Theater™ Teacher from San Francisco, CA

  • place

    JAN 2025

    SCREENDANCE

    Kinesthetic Exploration of Place

    Engaging in a kinesthetic exploration of place, this workshop will guide participants through a choreographic process that can be applied to the creation of site-specific work, screendance or projection with live performance. This interdisciplinary approach investigates a sensory experience of place, and explores different feeling states of place. Throughout the workshop, participants will discover possibilities for the collaboration between movement, film and place.

    Faith Morrison and Joy French from Missoula, MT

  • Fiction | Friction | Flow 2

    FEB 2025

    PLAYING WITH PROPS

    In this workshop, we will play with practical and poetic uses of objects, space, and selves, skirting the line between functional and fantastic. We will slow down to sense more, and speed up to access our before-thinking impulses. Can we get better at making coincidences happen? Can mistakes, awkwardness, and disruptions be our guides? Can we fully feel brief glimpses of unexpected beauty? Ideas will be layered and we will tune our presence towards togetherness.

    Rachael Lincoln & Leslie Seiters from Seattle, WA | San Francisco, CA

  • Movement, Storytelling, and the Human Experience

    OCT 2025

    Movement, Storytelling, and the Human Experience

    Led by Exit12 Directors Román Baca, Lisa Fitzgerald, and Adrienne de la Fuente, this residency workshop explores the powerful intersection of movement, narrative, and cultural perspectives to craft meaningful, healing stories. Through solo, partner, and group exercises, the workshop blends dance, writing, and theater to investigate themes of identity, resilience, and life transitions.

    Exit12 Dance Company from New York City, NY

  • The spaces in between

    JAN 2026

    Making dance-art installations with memory, movement, and video projection

    Step inside the creative process with Jeanine McCain and BBD dancers as they prepare a live piece for Kinetescope 13. In this creative composition workshop, participants will have the opportunity to use memory or personal lineage stories as material for screendance moments and dance-art installations. We will explore embodied expression of an idea, framing techniques for various artistic intentions, and the wonder of unexpected projection surfaces. With acknowledgement of the fragmented nature of memory, we consider what is revealed, what remains hidden, and what lies in between.

    Jeanine McCain from Colorado

  • Presence

    MAR 2026

    Improvisational Forms

    “The dance has started the moment you read this and will continue through this workshop.”

    Led by Methods of Madness Dance Theater Director Halley Willcox, this workshop explores improvisational scores and creative tools to generate investigating, being with and unexpected ways of looking.

    Please bring yourself, clothes you can move in and a journal and something to write with.

    Halley Willcox from Arizona

  • Low Fly & Vertical Exploration

    MAY 2026

    Low Fly & Vertical Exploration

    This 4-day workshop, led by Bandaloop dancer/director Rachael Lincoln and long-time collaborator Leslie Seiters, invites intermediate to advanced dancers to expand on last year’s introductory workshop. Participants will deepen their practice in “Low Fly” and vertical dance, pushing their boundaries and expanding their movement vocabulary. The workshop will culminate in an informal showing, offering dancers a chance to share their creative discoveries and growth.

    Rachael Lincoln & Leslie Seiters from Seattle, WA | San Francisco, CA