SUZUKI/VIEWPOINTS DROP-IN SERIES

Fall 2025

September 26-November 14, Fridays 6-8pm

Venue: PETE Studio (2259 NW Raleigh St Portland OR 97210)

Join us for an eight week series of drop-in classes. This series provides continued training for performers with a background in Suzuki and the Viewpoints, and is also accessible to beginners. Each class will cover a new aspect of the training and can be taken in sequence or as a stand alone class. 

Cost: Drop in sessions are $25 per session or $160 for the full series. BIPOC scholarships are available to all drop ins.

Venue:

PETE Studio

2259 NW Raleigh St

Portland, OR 97210

CLICK HERE for a PDF with more info about attending a drop in session.

About the facilitators:

Isabel McTighe (they/them) is a performance artist, facilitator and teacher specializing in devised and collaborative theatre making. They hold a BA in Theatre with a distinction in Performance from Lewis and Clark College, are a graduate of PETE’s Institute for Contemporary Performance, and the SITI Company’s Skidmore Summer Intensive. Isabel has been training in Suzuki since 2017 and the Viewpoints for nearly a decade. Isabel’s work and teaching are rooted in emergent strategy and a daily practice of community care. They are a pleasure activist in training and a hopeful shaper of change.

Sophie Traub (they/them) is a queer cultural organizer, performing artist and theatre/film creator with extensive strategic, artistic leadership and facilitation experience through their work as Artistic Executive Director of The School of Making Thinking (SMT). Sophie has trained extensively in various performance techniques, and was a part of the inaugural SITI Company Conservatory in 2013-2014, practicing Viewpoints and Suzuki daily for nine months. Sophie completed their Masters in Theatre and Performance Studies from York University in Toronto in 2019, focusing on the politics of cultural production and group dynamics in collaboration. In recent years, Sophie ran OUT Dance Project a state-wide, suicide prevention campaign that connected rural queer people across Oregon through story and dance during the height of COVID 19. While living in rural southern Oregon for the past five years, Sophie was a lead contributing artist and producer with Beyond Boom & Bust, a performance company with a mandate of cultivating economic and social resilience through performance. Sophie holds a long background of working in experimental devised theatre productions and in film in the US and Canada, to much acclaim.

Note: We will have more drop in classes in 2026! These are scheduled to be January 9th - February 27th & April 10th - May 29th. For more info, please contact Isabel.

photos: Owen Carey (top), Nina Johnson (bottom)