Mika Inouye
Stories that Move
Saturday, September 20, 2025 9am-1pm
Learn how to listen to a story with your whole body. Using the Japanese American Confinement during WWII as a case study, experience ways to study, honor, and share stories that are not your own through guided musical-somatic improvisations. Learn playful strategies for connecting people with stories through patterns derived from the text and visual art of children's literature. Join a dynamic conversation on sharing stories that move us to compassion and creativity. Visit the West Music pop-up shop before and after the workshop for related materials and supplies for the beginning of the school year.
Mika Inoyue Bio:
Mika Inouye is a performing artist and educator based in Durango, Colorado. As an Orff Schulwerk clinician, Mika presents workshops nationally and internationally, training music and movement teachers in the Orff Schulwerk approach. As founding president of the Four Corners Orff Chapter, she brings specialized professional development to public school music teachers in Colorado and New Mexico. Mika regularly leads movement workshops across the country and at the AOSA national conference. She has presented in Hong Kong, Kuwait, and New Zealand, and recently led a session at the 2024 International Orff Schulwerk Forum Salzburg Convention. Mika is the movement instructor at Orff summer levels courses in Los Angeles County and at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.