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<p align="left"><font size="4" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Workshops
& Residencies</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">John
Britton and Hilary Elliott are highly experienced teachers, facilitators
and community artists. Working together or separately they bring
their unique style of making performance to diverse communities,
empowering participants in the creation of their own work.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">They
have worked in schools, with youth theatres, special education groups,
women’s groups, tertiary students, emerging and established
performance groups and with open access community groups. This work
has ranged from single workshops through to extended residencies
– the latter frequently leading to the creation of new pieces
of community performance with lasting benefits for participants
and their communities.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">John
Britton and Hilary Elliott have worked extensively with the Victorian
Arts Centre’s Education programme and for the Melbourne Royal
Women’s Hospital Mental Health Programme, as well as running
residencies in schools as part of Quiddity Theatre’s commitment
to community development.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Quiddity
Theatre is always willing to discuss workshops and residencies with
promoters and community organisations, believing in the ability
of theatre to revitalise communities and empower individuals.</font><br>
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<td height="527" valign="top"><p align="center"><font color="#FF0000" size="4" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em><strong>SCHOOL
& COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS</strong></em></font></p>
<p>Both John Britton and Hilary Elliott have wide experience in running
workshops in schools, with pupils or with teachers, and in community
contexts. </p>
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<em><strong>Drama in The Classroom</strong></em> – Drama &
Dance workshops for any age group from Preps to final year students.
These workshops give students the skills and confidence to tell
their own stories in safe and empowering ways. They explore a variety
of approaches to narrative and group work based on the belief that
everyone can perform if they are given a positive environment to
work in and explicit permission to take risks. </p>
<p><em><strong>The Creative Classroom</strong></em> – A Professional
Development package for teachers at any level of the education system.
The workshop offers tried and proven strategies for involving your
pupils in making their own drama and dance. It encourages teachers
to accept that teaching is inherently creative and that if they
liberate their creativity, they can enrich every area of the curriculum.
These workshops are for general classroom teachers and for specialist
drama/dance teachers. These workshops, when run with a whole school
staff, offer a great chance for team building in a fun, supportive
and enriching environment.</p>
<p><strong><em>Performing For All</em></strong> – Quiddity Theatre
has run workshops across a whole range of community contexts; youth
theatres, play-schemes, women’s theatre groups, Special Needs
groups, integrated able bodied/disabled performing groups. The work
starts from simple strategies to empower and boost the confidence
of participants, and ends in superb and surprising places. Everyone
can perform. Everyone can surprise themselves. Quiddity Theatre
has ten years experience helping people learn how.</p>
<p>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
School & Community workshops, please <a href="contact.htm" target="_top">contact
us</a>.<br>
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<td height="527" valign="top"><p align="center"><font color="#FF0000" size="4" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><em><strong>PROFESSIONAL
& TERTIARY WORKSHOPS</strong></em></font></p>
<p><strong><em><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Physical
Theatre</font></em></strong> <font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">–</font>
<font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">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.</font></p>
<p><em><strong><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Physical
& Movement Improvisation</font></strong></em><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">
-</font> <font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">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.<br>
<a href="physical_movement_improv.pdf">Physical & Movement Improvisation
workshop description in PDF</a></font></p>
<p><em><strong><font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Ensemble
Physical Improvisation</font></strong></em> <font size="3" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">–</font>
<font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">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.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">All Quiddity
Theatre’s work is underpinned by the belief that without pleasure,
performance is moribund.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">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 <a href="contact.htm" target="_top">contact
us</a>.</font></p>
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