past workshops & events
Since 2010 we have offered a wide variety of Workshops & Events including:
Motion Capture Performance • Workshops with Punchdrunk • Workshops with Complicite • Workshops with Gecko • MoCap Casting Workshop with Jessica Jeffries • A Weekend of Movement with Russell Maliphant, • An Evening with Director of Movement Toby Sedgwick • Mask & Half Mask workshops with Trestle • Primate Performance with Sarah Perry • Movement Analysis • Character Performance for Animators • Creature Performance • Creature Combat for Performance Capture • The Feldenkrais Method for Performers • Viewpoints • Movement for Actors • Embodying text using Laban Movement Analysis • Movement Fundamentals • Character from the Feet Up • Laban for Actors • Neutral Mask • Stage & Screen Combat • Bartenieff Fundamentals • Movement, Voice & Text • Alexander Technique • Lecoq •
Contact Improvisation, 5 Rhythms, The Breath, Ballet, Jazz, Funk & Soul, Yoga, Northern Soul, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, African Yoga, Aerial, Parkour, Stilts, Pilates, Climbing, Jiu Jitsu, MMA …
An experience of Gecko’s unique style of movement and physical theatre, an opportunity to gain an insight into the creative processes Gecko’s devising performers go through when creating a show.
An evening with Movement Director, Toby Sedgewick. listening and learning about his extensive career both on stage and screen.
Michael Chekhov Technique with Sinéad Rushe This workshop focused on some of the key principles in the technique of Michael Chekhov, one of the most renowned Russian actors and pioneering acting teachers of the twentieth century.
Exploring Trestles unique creative process whilst exploring half mask and full mask character work.
Through games, task-based improvisations, and creating journeys participants gained an insight into Punchdrunk’s distinctive devising process.
Performance Capture Casting workshops with Casting Director Jessica Jefferies, sharing her expertise within the Performance Capture industry, Jessica works mostly on video games, animation, new media, VFX and SFX.
An intensive two-day workshop with Choreographer Russell Maliphant, exploring ideas and movement that draw on Maliphant’s training in dance and bodywork,
The roots of Complicite’s work was explored through devising exercises and games and in building an ensemble through physical training and play,
Character & Creature embodiment with Sarah Perry, taking inspiration from the movements and behaviourisms of four key primates: Gorillas, Gibbons, Chimpanzees and Orangutans.
Past workshops & Events: Photography by: Ellie Kurtz, Helen Maybanks and Tom Scurr
