physical theatre · DANCE · GOA
season 2026-7
NURTURING · VISCERAL · TRANSFORMATIVE
Professional training in physical theatre and dance. Specialist workshops. Retreats for healing and growth. Bold visceral productions. Arambol, Goa.
ARAMBOL · GOA · INDIA
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"The body is the instrument of our hold on the world."
— MERLEAU-PONTY
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PROFESSIONAL TRAINING - CREATE & PERFORM
PERSONAL GROWTH RETREATS - EMBODY & TRANSFORM
BODY MATTERS - WATCH & PERFORM
MOVING PARTS SPACE & COMMUNITY
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LECOQ PHYSICAL THEATRE METHODOLOGY
CONTEMPORARY DANCE & FLOORWORK
CONTACT IMPROVISATION
MASK, CLOWN, COMMEDIA, BOUFFON
ACTING & VOICE
DEVISING & CHOREOGRAPHY
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THE BODY & PERFORMANCE
Intensive training and specialist workshops in physical theatre, contemporary dance, clown, contact improvisation, voice, acting and choreography. Lecoq-inspired. Ensemble-led. Life-changing. Arambol, Goa.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES · FULL-TIME INTENSIVE · PUBLIC PERFORMANCES · MENTORSHIP
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MOVEMENT · CREATIVITY · HEALING
Personal transformation through arts-based approaches, we run regular retreats using dance and drama-based therapeutic practices for healing, wellness and growth.
YOGA, TAI-CHI AND NOURISHING, GROUNDING ARTISTIC PRACTICES
NARRATIVE THERAPUETIC PRACTICE TO RETELL YOUR STORY
SOMATIC MOVEMENT
RECONNECTING TO THE BODY, RELEASING BLOCKS AND TENSION
EMBODIED EXPRESSION, AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT CONSCIOUS DANCE
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VISCERAL · EXPERIMENTAL · COMMUNITY PERFORMANCE
We create and tour bold, visceral physical performance. Monthly showcases during the Arambol season. A venue for performers to show their work to a vibrant artistic crowd.
REGULAR STUDENT SHOWCASES
MONTHLY COMMUNITY PERFORMANCE EVENING
ORIGINAL TOURING PRODUCTIONS
CURATED ‘BODY MATTERS’ PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME
VENUE FOR VISITING PERFORMERS
FIRE NIGHTS & OUTDOOR PERFORMANCE FORMS
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SPATIOUS · JUNGLE · SOFT FLOOR · LIGHT · NATURE · LOVE
We provide space for workshops, rehearsal, training and artistic residencies. We are also running online spaces for our memership community
12 x 15m STUDIO
FANS & SUNLIT STUDIO
DAILY CLEANING & WATER SUPPLY
TOILETS & SHOWERS
REGULAR ONLINE ARTISTIC INSPIRATION MEETINGS
PERSONAL MENTORSHIP
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SEASON 2026- 27 · PROFESSIONAL CERTIFIED TRAINING
NOVEMBER 2026 - MARCH 2027 · ARAMBOL GOA
Act, dance, create, perform. Develop artistic voice and performance skill in beautiful natural jungle surrounds. Transformative artistic experience. World class theatre and dance ten minutes from the beach.
The Body and Performance provides performers with intensive in-studio training, mentorship through independent projects and public showcasing. This is for actors and dancers who wish to create their own work and expand the aesthetics of the body in performance.
"Students learn technical skills and apply these to creating. This is a space to experiment, test ideas, fail in a safe nurturing space, find your artistic voice and fly..."
TWO PATHWAYS THROUGH
The facilitator-creator track follows the same journey as the full time creator-performer training, with extra sessions, mentorship and self-study through the progtramme.
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PROGRAMME DETAILS
DURATION
14 weeks full time or join 'parts'
CERTIFICATION
Professional Certificate
FORMAT
Full-time intensive
TWO TRACKS THROUGH
Performer-Creator or Facilitator
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17 - 27 NOVEMBER 2026 · 10am - 5.30 DAILY
Preparing the body
Foundation in ensemble practice, voice & breath, acting basics and contemporary dance. Groundedness, momentum, spirals, presence and softness. Switching on your awareness & physical aliveness, this intensive opens the body, builds skill, stamina, flexibility and range.
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4 - 13 JANUARY 2027 10AM - 5.30 DAILY
Feldenkrais, Contact Improvisation and Performance
Rick Nodine leads his signature approach to understanding Contact Improvisation, and improvised performance - entering the movement through Feldenkrais's method - developing internal awareness of how movement originates, evolves and travels naturally through the body. The awareness of movement pathways inside the body extends to awareness of others and enriches observation between bodies in contact.
PERFORMANCE SHARING WEDS 13TH JAN
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7 - 23 DECEMBER 2026 · 15 DAYS · 6 HRS A DAY
Physical aliveness and essential expression
Lecoq-based physical theatre, mime, floorwork & acrobatics. Ensemble skills, articulate body, foundational devising skills. Use of rhythm, condensing time-space, essentialised story-telling, character acting, use of image. Group devised and contemporary dance pieces.
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14 - 24 JANUARY 2027 10AM - 10PM
Inspired gathering of multiple contact improvisation teachers
This annual gathering of Contact Improvisers is a highlight on the Arambol cultural scene. This is optional for full time B&P students, but highly recommended and included in full-programme fee. Body work, somatics, multiple workshops, an interantional gathering of performers and dancers from all over the world.
MENTORED CREATIVE-WRITING IS AN ALTERNATIVE
FOR FULL-TIME STUDENTS
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25 - 29 JANUARY 2027 · 8AM - 5.30PM
Kalaripayattu, Story-telling aud authentic movement
These 5 days are an intense burst of martial art training combined with an introduction to Neutral Mask. We explore the archetypal structure of the hero's journey as it relates to the personal, social, political, historical. and 5 day emotional and personal story.
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22 - 26 FEBRUARY 2027 · 10AM - 5.30 DAILY · 5 DAYS
Exploring connection between comic performance and Contact Improvisation
One week of contact improvisation exploring flights and falling, and the potential for CI vocabulary in comic situations. A full spectrum of wild, ridiculousness, vulnerability and humanness. Commedia dell'arte, clown, acrobatics and Contact Improvisation
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23 - 28 MARCH
The Clown in Melodrama
Amy Russell, founder of Embodied Poetics and co-founder of LISPA will lead an embodied writing workshop to explore the absurdity, vulnerability, and narrative possibility of clown-logic in the sentimental, morally authoratitive, landscape of Melodrama.
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2 - 13 FEBRUAY 2027 · 10PM - 6PM
Tragedy, Myth & Heroic Journey
Deepens creative capabilities through developing both melodramtic and tragic story structures, chorus and ensemble skill. Contemporary dance training goes deeper physical analysis of the spiral and how this can be used to fly and fall in to and out of the floor. an choreographic expression of darker forces and emotions.
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1 - 13 MARCH · 10AM - 6PM · 10 DAYS
Clown, Physical Comedy & Choreography
The profound and vulnerable craft of clown is explored along side wild, high-energy and avaricious form of Commedia dell’arte. The games and failures, direct audience relationship, play with rhythm, the ridiculous as well as human frailty deepens performer-creators' sensitivity, range and authenticity.
These two weeks are split between comic training and contemporary dance - in which the dance syllabus concludes with a co-created choreography.
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APRIL 2027
Artist-Led, Self-Directed Creation
Projects are selected to go through to this phase. Full creative agency. Individual mentorship. Devising, choreography and theatrical languages. Final public performance and graduation.
I WAS TRULY BLOWN AWAY. THE MOST INTENSE AND POWERFUL EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE. I CAN NOW THINK WITH MY BODY.
VARUN KAPOOR
PERFORMER 2022
ENROL NOW
Register your interest and we will be in touch with full programme details, application process and artist-volunteer information.
Part One - Foundations - ensemble & contemporary
17 - 27 NOVEMBER
7 - 23 DECEMBER
Part Two - Foundation Plus
4 - 13 JANUARY
Part Three - Contact Improvisation by Rick Nodine: "Training Ground Goa"
14 - 24 JANUARY
Part Four - Contact Improvisation Gathering by InContact
25 - 29 JANUARY
Part Five - Kalari and Physical Storytelling
2 - 13 FEBRUAY
22 - 26 FEBRUARY
Part Six - Epic chorus, Tragic story telling. Flying Low & Passing through
Part Seven - Comedy and Contact Imrpovisation
1 - 13 MARCH
Part Eight - Comic territories, clown and choreography
23 - 28 MARCH
APRIL 2027
FACILITATION
Part Nine - The Clown in Melodrama: Embodied storytelling
Part Ten - Selected Personal Projects: Artistic Residency
Complete the full course plus an additional Ten days workshop and study. Curated journey available.
WHO 'BODY & PERFORMANCE' IS FOR
The full time course is for actors and dancers who wish to create their own work and are able to work in a professional and disciplined environment, willing to push themselves and have open hearts.
"We have a playful approach to taking our work and learning seriously. We also expect commitment, discipline, professionalism and most of all willingness to be challenged to open new frameworks of thinking, doing and creating."
Actors and dancers who want to create their own work
Professionals seeking to expand their aesthetic range
Open-hearted artists willing to be challenged
Those ready for rigorous, joyful, life-changing training
VOLUNTARY ARTIST POSITIONS & PROFESSIONAL EXCHANGES
We believe in access to training. Contact us to discuss volunteering professional exchange opportunities.
INTEGRATED FACILITATION TRAINING: FACILITATOR-CREATOR
Tailor-made training for performers who want to learn the art of facilitation. For those who have completed training already and want to develop skills for leadership of classes, workshops, training and creative processes.
Facilitator-creators will develop skills for holding space, shaping learning journeys, facilitating enquiry and generating focused atmosphere.
Learning the art of facilitation can open many career pathways for performers: the key is learning your own unique qualities and gifts: what excites you to share, what moves you to open space and light fires for others?
Developing an available, neutral body
Somatic & anatomical knowledge
Building ensemble
Teaching Laban and Viewpoints
Unleashing creativity
The neutral mask & movement analysis
Voice & breath
Expressive body / Poetic body
Teaching tragic and comic territories
Teaching devising & choreography
Taught through a combination of participating in the Body and Performance training, planning and facilitating sessions, personalised mentorship, reflection exercises and written tasks.
"The art experience and the theatre experience, gyms for the soul,
generate heat and exercise the imagination, empathy, creative
thinking, patience and tolerance. A gym for the soul is a place where
personal investment is required and the return is real."
Anne Bogart
