PROFESSIONAL & TERTIARY WORKSHOPS

Physical Theatre – A basic introduction to actor based physical theatre, designed for tertiary students and actors who want to develop a better understanding of their physical resources. The workshop explores focus and concentration, knowledge of one’s own body, understanding and following impulses, embodying emotion, illustrative and abstract expression. Workshops can include elements of embodied vocal development. The workshops combine fixed training exercises with a strong element of self-development through highly structured improvisation.

Physical & Movement Improvisation - Working from the principle that performance should be based in pleasure, positivity and personal empowerment, the sessions use structured improvisation to bring participants to a deeper awareness of their personal performance strengths and to give them tools to confront their fears and weaknesses. The workshop will emphasise self -awareness and group-awareness, the growing, maintaining and focussing of performance energy, the directing of concentration into performance, sensitivity to creative impulse and how to structure impulse into performance.
Physical & Movement Improvisation workshop description in PDF

Ensemble Physical Improvisation – This workshop explores the specific strategies performers need if they are to work freely and constructively within an ensemble. The workshop emphasises mental discipline, sensory engagement and purity of impulse. It encourages performers to exist and work sensitively in the present, maintaining an awareness of their responsibility to the ensemble. The work uses improvisation as a training strategy and explores the difference between improvisation-as-training tool and improvisation-as-performance. This workshop has developed from the work explored in The Quiddity Ensemble.

All Quiddity Theatre’s work is underpinned by the belief that without pleasure, performance is moribund.

All Quiddity Theatre’s workshops are individually tailored to the specific needs of the organization or individual booking the workshop. If you’d like to know more about the company’s Professional & Tertiary workshops, please contact us.