Performances

Denise Casey's performance work highlights storytelling, performance art, and contemplative practice as tools for transformation and change, both personally and collectively. Her career is a collection and teaching of the practices that allow us to get inside the stories we're afraid to tell, hear or be close to. She's taught experience-based learning in schools, universities, businesses, and treatment centers; facilitating workshops, seminars, and classes in writing, voicework, mindfulness, storytelling, and the creative process. Denise is touring with her newest immersive play, Playing the Game.

Playing the Game, 2022

There are consequences to not being ourselves. In Playing the Game, Denise Casey explores the many games we play in order to belong- from taking cover in a monastery to skip out of rehab, to going halfway across the world to hear the Himalayas, or time traveling through a seventh grade science class. In this 60-minute, one-woman play, Denise follows the games she's played through the seen and unseen world into a larger collective moment, the summer of 2020. Part memoir, part meditation, part make believe, Playing the Game is unshaking in its exploration of possibility and courage. You ready? Debuts in Burlington, VT November 2022.

All In, 2021

For my final presentation in Voice Movement Therapy we were asked to identify 10 different subpersonalities, learn their songs, their voices, their movements and the thread that connects them. I became curious about this particular "befriending of parts" when Rev. angel Kyodo williams offered in retreat an invitation to "go and find the parts of yourself that you don't want to see." I began singing this line over and over, like a homing device, until it led me to these very parts. All In is a look at what happens when we can lean in, get curious and listen.

I Love Your Body, 2020

A partner of mine once commented on my body by saying, "good job." This is the story of 'good job.'