Embodied Practice For Directors

This 2-day workshop is for directors and performance-makers who are interested in exploring embodied processes. It will focus on how to work with actors using physical processes for directors to apply to scene-work, shaping monologues, blocking and composition, physical dramaturgies, character, emotion, and using breath as physical impulse.

The exercises and processes covered in the workshop are designed for directors and performance-makers to utilise so that they can encourage actors to:

• Access a tangible, practical framework for developing presence and spontaneity
• Expand their physical vocabulary and expressive range through play
• Develop a highly attuned capacity for improvisation
• Enhance responsiveness and body-listening for solo work, ensemble, and scene work
• Generate richer, more nuanced material when devising
• Unique approaches and provocations for creating stage blocking and choreography
• Reimagine the experience of “audience” through an embodied lens

This material is applicable to a range of genres- text-based work, devised performance, and immersive performance- and is an opportunity to critically reflect and share processes with fellow directors and performance-makers dedicated to rigorous practice.

Want to book this workshop? Any questions or curiosities? Reach out.

Photo by Warwick Gow