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Professional Certified Performance Training
Our professional physical performance training works with a 'whole person' approach to create a learning journey that's exploding with revelation and joy! This is a rigorous, multi-disciplinary training that combines physical theatre, voice, contemporary dance, therapeutic movement, choreography and devising to equip performers with a rounded set of skills and abilities. We believe in the creativity of performers to make their own work and the powerful, radical, life changing potential of theatre and dance to enliven, enrich, provoke and transform society.
* 2 x 2 month intensive full-time in-person teaching
* Mentored individual projects and final presentation
* Pathways to professional performance projects -in INDIA, the UK, and EUROPE
* Certification and public showcasing
* Collaborative artistic link between India, UK and EU institutions.
Month 1: Basic ensemble and devising practice. Nuts and bolts of physical theatre language. Embodiment of animals and poetic imagery. Laban cube for actors and for movement analysis. Creation task around principles of essentialising and creating huge epic landscapes in small spaces. Basics of 'Lecoq 20 movements'. Simple structures for constructing movement and emotion. Breaking points in the body. Softening and developing floorwork vocabulary. Voice basics.
Month 2: Epic and tragic spaces. Journey of the neutral mask. Journey of the hero. Creative writing around seeing the world through a dark mirror. Constructing conflict in the space. Choreographing around paintings - moving still images in 3D space. Tragic Chorus. Approaches to choreography from inner awareness. Monologues. Building vocal skills. 1 week intensive with immense-force-of-nature Vittoria De Ferrari Sapetto.
Month 3: Comic territories. Commedia dell'arte, clown. More detailed choreography and devising skills. Acrobatics. Duologue scene work. Vocal characters. Deeper physical skill, choreography around external worlds.
Month 4: Mentored creative projects. Lighter daily teaching schedule. Students create and present their own work.
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. The 2022-23 training takes place in the stunning and tranquil jungle of North Goa, 10 minutes from gorgeous beaches.
Every week students create and present back to the group and full teaching faculty: this is a space to experiment, test ideas, fail in a safe nurturing space, find your artistic voice and fly...
Below you can read about the course components in detail, the teachers, teaching methodology and application process. Please get in touch with any questions. We look forward to igniting sparks of inspiration, fires of imagination, and your future creations.
You can join for 1, 2, 3 or 4 months starting:
28th November 2022
9th January 2023
6th February 2023
6th March 2023
APPLICATIONS ARE REVIEWED ON A ROLLING BASIS
"I was truly blown away. The most intense and powerful experience of my life. As a professional, I can say I wasn't even walking before. I can now think with my body. The faculty is just amazing - everyone is accepted. They help us be ourselves."
VARUN KAPOOR, 2022
"I AM SO ALIVE:
SHINING WITH ALIVENESS!"
EVY GLYPTI , 2022
"I'm so hungry to continue. This course makes you ravenous to learn. So many lightbulbs have gone off. I feel my presence growing, honestly I'm so full and hungry at the same time.
I'm amazed every day!"
ISHA SHARMA, 2022
"Classes are transcendental and shapeshifting."
2022 dancer-creator, Pushyank Nahar
Trainings in 2020 & 2021 run by this team
One week intensive
One month residency
Body & Performance 3 month intensive 2022
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4: public sharing
Month 2: Tragedy & Melodrama
Week 8: public sharing
Month 3: Comedy & Choreography
Final sharing and Graduation
This course is for actors and dancers who wish to create their own work and are able to work in a professional and disciplined environment, are willing to push themselves and have open hearts. The course is packed with a variety of movement and physical theatre-based disciplines to expand the 'creator-performer''s repertoire. There will be a rigorous selection process with two rounds of application to ensure that the international group that journey's together for four months, is of the skill and mindset to excel.
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. This course is as much about how performers live and work with others, as it is about building skill and techniques.
Please read the detailed programme overview from last year's course below. The updated version with exciting new elements and teachers, will be out soon. In the meantime, please send any questions to movingparts.india@gmail.com
We look forward to meeting you. Big courageous and warm hugs to all you brave artists, choosing this path... xx
Complete 2022 Programme Details
