ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates workshop and rehearsal techniques relevant to Robert Lepage’s performance practice. The aim of the workshops is to produce individual or group material for a devised performance, starting from a freestyle improvisation as used in Lepage’s performance practice. The performance is open to change throughout the workshop/rehearsal. It is about discovering through process, not building blocks leading to the final production. The workshops require the participants to be constantly on the inside and outside of the creative process. The essential elements for the session are the actor’s awareness of their own spine and the relation between the body and the external workshop environment. The architecture of the space is a key element in the making of the physical environment and affects the movements and actions made. The workshop techniques are a combination of individual and group improvised actions.
