Roni Alperin offers an experiential workshop exploring how to engage real-life traumatic stories with depth, responsibility, and care in improvised performance. Grounded in trauma-informed principles, participants will learn how to build safety through resourcing, attunement, and pacing, before moving into expressive performance. We will practice titration, aesthetic distance, and embodied storytelling—supporting performers to stay connected, regulated, and responsive while working with meaningful material. This workshop invites you to deepen your capacity to listen, witness, and transform stories with care—creating performances that are not only artistically alive, but also emotionally grounded and humanizing.

All shows and classes for DIF take place at The Edge Theater (5451 N. Broadway).Traveling for the festival? Get discounts on accommodations here: https://www.theatremomentum.com/dif-travel.