Laboratory of AffectFor anyone who wants to move and explore the body's capacities
Laboratory of AffectFor anyone who wants to move and explore the body's capacities
A two-hour movement workshop with Yulia Linnik, theatre artist and curator, Fulbright MA student in Performance Studies at NYU Tisch.
Explore the possibilities of physical interaction with others. A laboratory of games, performative structures and movement practices, inspired by Brian Massumi’s theory of affect: the body’s capacity to affect and be affected. No previous movement experience or training is required.
The Situation
We will interact with one another through movement, explore our bodies and their possibilities, and discover their hidden dimensions: affects. How can we affect other bodies, and how can we allow ourselves to be affected by others?
This may be for you if:
• you’re curious about improvisation
• you want your body to feel freer and more open
• you want to stay curious about other people
• you’re looking for partnership, on stage and in life
• you’ve never moved on a stage before, and that’s fine
The Practices
We will create a laboratory space where we interact with one another through games, performative structures, physical exercises, and movement practices. We will pay attention to the changes that emerge within the group and in the space between bodies in contact.
How we play:
• Authentic Movement: free movement through space, following the body’s impulses
• consciously changing movement patterns: noticing habitual ways of moving and shifting them
• your perfect gesture: create it, then deconstruct it through repetition
• impulses: responding through movement to a partner’s word, breath or physical impulse
• games and performative structures
• noticing what changes in the group and between bodies in contact
What you’ll experience
Notice Affect
Sense the subtle intensities that emerge between bodies.
A Freer Body
Shift habitual ways of moving and open up new ones.
Partnership
Affect others and let yourself be affected.
Tools for the Stage
Shape these moments and use them as performative tools.
Who This Is For
Anyone who wants to move, explore the body’s capacities, and is curious about interacting with others within theatrical space. No previous movement experience or training is required. Part of the TISTO Guest Season.
Inside the room
What Participants Say
Workshop instructor
Yulia Linnik
Actress • Theatre curator • MA student, Performance Studies, NYU Tisch School of the Arts • Fulbright scholar
Yulia Linnik
Actress · Theatre curator · MA student in Performance Studies at NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Yulia Linnik is a theatre artist and curator. She began her path as an actress, working on theatre projects in Ukraine with Nafta Theatre in Kharkiv and the Tinyova Theatre Group in Kyiv, as well as internationally in Austria, Poland, Germany, and the United States, before expanding her practice into theatre curation and directing.
Over the past year, she has curated an educational programme at the Kyiv National Molodiy Theatre, produced Jérôme Bel’s GALA at Lviv’s Zankovetska Theatre, and directed Ophelia and Polonius Meet in the Summerhouse. Since September 2026, she has been pursuing an MA in Performance Studies at NYU Tisch School of the Arts as a Fulbright scholar.
Instagram @linnik.podlinnik
Information& Details
December 6, Sunday, 3–5 pm
Session Length: 2 hours
Held: English
Location: Manhattan (the exact address comes with your booking)
Format: Live, in-person
Experience Level: No previous movement experience or training required · 18+
Group size: Up to 15 people
What to bring: Comfortable clothes you can move in
Transfers: your spot can be transferred or credited if you tell us 48 hours before
Part of the TISTO Guest Season: four guest teachers, October to December
Prices
$50 · early bird, until Sunday, November 15
$60 · from Monday, November 16
One 2-hour workshop · up to 15 people