The workshops are based fundamentally in the company’s own working methods and processes for producing ‘physically aware and text-based performance’.
We can offer set workshops built from the 3 main models below or tailor your workshop to your group’s current needs and focuses. Our work focuses into the following areas:
1. Physical and Devised Theatre: developed around stimuli or texts (notably influenced by practitioners such as Anna Halprin, Molshe Feldenkrais and Rudolf Laban). Process work for developing new material, dramaturgy, composition, montage and finding new visual and physical performance language.
2. The Actor and The Text / The Actor and their Tools: Acting and Actor training workshops - Group and individual work on practical approaches to serving play-texts / preparing the body and body awareness work for performers. Group and ensemble work, finding openness between performers and collaborative skills.
3. Speaking and Performing Shakespeare - Voice, Text and Acting: workshops inspired by work with Patsy Rodenburg and the work of Declan Donnellan that helps performers understand and unlock the power of words and the voice in performance.
Theory / Practice: First and for-most this work is based in practice rather than academic theory and to this end we encourage that workshops are practically focused. We are however happy to feed in more theoretical and academic grounding and study-based material into your session if you feel it will be useful. This can for example include information on related practitioners who have in some way informed our work, cultural backgrounds of processes and their roots in those cultures.
For your information further influences and practitioners of note are: Anna Halprin, Rudolf Laban, Molshe Feldenkrais, Clive Barker, Bertolt Brecht, Myerhold, Grotowski and Gardeniezie, Patsy Rodenburg, Christian Linklater, Cicely Berry, Simon Usher. Acting methodology from the school most famously exemplified by the work of Declan Donnellan, Stanislavski…
In the past we have facilitated 3 hour, 6 hour (1 day) and 2,3, and 4-day workshops. Obviously the type of work and the detail we go into will be affected by the length of the workshop.
For bookings and further enquires please contact Simon Pittman at
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