ARTT.F23

This course invites students to consider themselves creators of their own artistic material. It teaches participants how to be precise in their physicality, breath, and gaze as they create new characters and make vibrant, original performance. Movement and improvisation are at the heart of the course, as participants learn to write on their feet and discover their own artistic impulses that yield arresting moments of live performance.
Ensemble work is an essential component and is emphasised throughout the course with a focus on space and rigorous play. Observation of the world, elements, art and its different movements serve as primary inspiration for creation. Devising practices will also be taught which reveal the poetic possibilities of theatre while offering practical building blocks of devising. The course is rooted in the Lecoq pedagogy (a pedagogy rooted in European theater), as well as other devising and physical theater traditions, while aiming to cultivate a theatre of tomorrow led by curious minds that speaks to this contemporary moment.