ABSTRACT
The early workshops explore the performer’s body, examining it, feeling it, searching for its potential and eventually putting it into movement in the workshop space. Play is the thing and these workshops take the performer back to a world of play, of childhood freedom of expression and of intuition. The programme encourages the performer to relearn what has been unlearned in conventional education. The work develops physical memory. With the freedom of the return to childhood comes a release from habit, from the ways of using the body that the performer will have picked up over their lifetime, to find the balance, the centre, the magic neutrality of the unencumbered performer from which anything is possible. Speaking and listening are physical activities. The voice is constantly explored in relation to the moving actor and the dynamic relationship between body, voice and space.
