DIGITAL PLAYGROUNDS

Each course is offered only twice a year with an intimate number of participants. This way you get one-on-one coaching, a tight-knit ensemble of fellow students, and the intensive focus within your own schedule! Three weeks, M-Th, in a secret Facebook group with set office hours, and access to digital workbooks and resources. Each session is $250.

**SESSIONS ARE OPEN NOW FOR “A CLASS ABOVE” and “AN INSPIRING VISION”.
July 19-August 15, 2019 CLOSED

(Want to know 2020 dates? Sign up for the mailing list here.)

Here are three highly challenging courses/coaching sessions available:

**A CLASS ABOVE: Workshops You Were Destined To Teach:

For professional artists (in any field) transitioning into freelance teaching and seasoned teaching artists wanting to create unique workshop offerings that set them apart from the masses.

**AN INSPIRING VISION: Curriculum Designed to Motivate & Prepare:

For new and seasoned teachers needing to spark passion back into their curriculum.

LEADING FROM WITHIN: Identity-based leadership

For professional and emerging leaders* ready to develop their motivations, skill set, and resources to lead in a holistic way plus the daily practice needed to sustain it. **Leader = visionary, passion human, connector, instigator, supporter, teacher, producer, board member, CEO, mom, freelancer, small business owner, retired and stepping into their next adventure… A leader has many forms.

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BOOKS

Creatively Independent: Life on Your Terms with Play, Community & Awareness

  THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION TO:
– Identify and embrace what makes you unique and invaluable!
– Pick yourself! Stop waiting for others to create your opportunities!
– Actively form your ensemble and play!

Creatively Independent is a playful and provoking workshop in book form. It includes exercises and creative prompts to help you define your artistic purpose, gather your ensemble, and create without fear.

Perfect for anyone who’s ready to create their own artistic opportunities.

INTERNATIONAL? FIND IT HERE:   

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SHAKESPEARE’S ENSEMBLE: Giving Back Creative Ownership

March 2020 release (preorder below)

This unique resource book acts as an intense workshop helping the reader explore and own their Identity, Intention, and Impact as an artist and human being. Through play, mindfulness, and ensemble devising, we reveal Shakespeare’s work to be the adventurous playground it truly is, where you self-discovery comes out of the reader’s personal point of view and curiosity. A strong focus on a reader-led quest makes this book accessible and challenging for middle school through grad school – amateur to professional. You drive it!

• An artistic journey to rediscover your creative ownership—what you deeply care for and take personal responsibility for—in life, in education, and in the arts.
• A holistic character study for an upcoming part.
• A group exploration understanding devising aesthetics like communication, design, collaboration, community.
• An alternative to vertical teaching where you and your students learn about yourselves and Shakespeare anew.

Shakespeare’s Ensemble is also available in as an expanded Facilitator’s Edition which includes two alternatively cut Shakespeare plays, creative prompts for facilitators (teachers and directors), additional essays from educators and performers who have experienced creative ownership with us, and options to consider while playing with the book to promote horizontal teaching and directing.

PREORDER INFO (GROUP SALES? Email us)

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POP-UP PLAYGROUNDS:

The circus is coming to your town! Play, flip your mind, & own your practice in a ridiculously healthy & daring way.

CREATIVE OWNERSHIP – Daring & Sustainable Artistry

Put your process through its paces with evolutionary play, mindfulness, and sustainable practices. Dive into your identity. Launch your intention. Dream beyond your lifetime! Using physical theatre as a metaphor for the rigors, joy, and potential of your creative process, this playground challenges all levels of experience and art (theatre, dance, creative writing, and music). Come with intentions on how you want to activate your artistic life. Leave with inspiration and a personalized map to journey into 2019!

WHERE: Chelsea Studios, NYC (151 W. 26th ST., 6th floor)

WHEN: Monday, December 3, 2018, 6-9 PM ET*

FACILITATOR: Jess Pillmore

PLAYERS: You! You risk-taking, heart-open, hungry for a healthier practice on-stage and off artist, educator, student, amateur, professional you!

COST: SOLD OUT

*After the workshop, the magic bubble extends to dinner/drinks nearby to keep learning/exploring Sustainable Artistry. Join Jess, ask questions, get more coaching, laugh, wonder, connect… to build the bridge into your everyday practice.*

Not in your neck of the woods and want the circus to come to you?

Let’s connect!

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T-SHIRTS:

BE PROUD OF YOUR CREATIVELY INDEPENDENT SELF!

PRICE: $10 + $4 S/H U.S. ONLY

SIZES: XL, L, M, S, & XS (YOUTH L).

COLOR CHOICE*: Choose between white ink/dark shirt or black ink/light shirt. Shirts come in a rainbow of colors. It’ll be up to the fates on which one you get. Take a risk!

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MUSIC:

MUSIC REVIEWS:

Her crypto-poetic delivery plays like the NYC-cool inner dialogues of Suzanne Vega & Jim Carroll crossed w/ the unpredictable shifts of middle-period PJ Harvey. Even at this early stage in her career, Pillmore is easily more than the sum of those parts. (TIMEOUT NY)

Distinctive… Made all the more interesting by her biting observations. (Nashville Scene).

Striking and daring, lyrically and literally. (KGPR 89.9 FM).