The goal of the workshop is to produce a high
The goal of the workshop is to produce a high quality ensemble show at the end of the year and to give the participants a space for freedom, fun, expression, and poetry.
The theme for the show will be decided after the first months with the workshop leader and the participants.
We will work on professional exercises but perfection is never expected, beginners and those with no or little experience are always encouraged.
We will work for the most part in English and translations will be provided when necessary.
Initially we will experiment with improvisation and scenes from a classic / contemporary English speaking repertoire to find a good direction for the group according to their talents.
We will be working to help the participants find their creativity, expression, spontaneity and confidence.
Our approach is multi-disciplinary; no one style of acting or theatre is to be privileged. We will work with methods from classic method acting to more physical based methods.
We always work in an environment where no one can be wrong. Fear of failure is always a sure way of blocking expression.
Each participant is encouraged and required to work as part of a theatre ensemble, supported by the other participants. The basis of the pedagogy relies on the complicity each participant has with the others. We will work to find and ground this complicity and create a stable and encouraging working environment where each participant can find their own expression, poetry, and voice.
We will work the principal skills of theatre as individuals and more importantly as a group.
The most important disciplines we will be working on are :
Play and complicity – Working with people and trusting the other members of the troupe. Finding the "play" and the pleasure on stage.
Chorus work – finding one voice for the group
Vocal work - work on placing the voice and breathing, using the apparatus correctly, overcoming the fear of using one’s voice on stage, projecting the voice, and expression.
Verbal work –Work on the placement of the English accent, diction, pronunciation, using silence.
Movement and physical work – warming up, stretching, group dynamics, posture.
Characters – Physical approaches to character, method approaches to characters, status work, improvisation to help find a character.
Improvisation – spontaneity, using the imagination, creating stories, improvising scenes.
Text – Sight-reading, remembering the text.
