TMESIS THEATRE DIRECTING RESIDENCIES AND PHYSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOPS
The company offer directing residencies and workshops in their unique style of physical theatre for university level students which are led by one or both of the company’s Artistic Director’s who are well known for their energetic teaching style and encouraging participants to push their barriers through training and improvisation.
The company’s strong physical style of theatre and training methods has been enriched by their challenging collaborations with Derevo and Pina Bausch Tanztheater.
Tmesis Theatre have worked with numerous drama and dance institutes including, LIPA, RADA, LAMDA, Archi Drama School (Athens), ESMAE (Porto) and Salford University as well as schools nationally.
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What people said about the work:
“The students really appreciated the work Tmesis Theatre did with them - and found it challenging, releasing, inspiring and unthreatening.”
Sebastian Harcombe, Course Director- BA ACTING at RADA
“Tmesis expertly take the students on a voyage of creative exploration that expands their thinking, their emotions and their physical expression. ”
Andrea McDevitt, Head of Dance department, Liverpool Community College
“The physical theatre skills workshop was challenging and exciting; the students were encouraged to push themselves beyond anything they had done before ... it encouraged them in the creation of their own highly successful piece of Physical Theatre for their A level examination.
Sian Tickle- Head of Drama- Merchant Taylors School Crosby, Merseyside.
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ALL RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS ARE SUITABLE FOR BOTH DANCE AND DRAMA STUDENTS
DIRECTING RESIDENCIES (FROM ONE WEEK TO ONE MONTH IN LENGTH)
Tmesis train daily in their unique methods, and create a piece of devised work with the students, resulting in a professional level performance at the end of the residency. The company can decide on a theme or story or can create a production with adapted from a script/ story of your choice. Each project will be specifically catered to your desired outcomes, including assessment requirements.
TEACHING RESIDENCIES (FROM ONE WEEK TO ONE TERM IN LENGTH)
Tmesis Theatre’s teaching residencies take the students on a vigorous and in-depth physical theatre training programme, which looks at body awareness, expression, basic acrobatics, choreographing sequences, creating characters, text and physicality and devising physical work. W e can structure an ongoing program to suit your needs, time-table and budget.
PHYSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOPS (FROM 2 HOURS TO 2 DAYS IN LENGTH)
Tmesis Theatre workshops give an introduction to the company’s powerful training methods focusing on strength, flexibility, rhythm and expression and offer tools in their unique ways of creating and devising work. The company particularly look at pushing barriers through creating abstract and dynamic ways of using the body which break habitual patterns.
PHYSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOPS FOR SCHOOLS
The company can deliver workshops specifically designed to suit your needs or to help students physicalise a piece they are working on. Workshops the company can offer include, ‘Creating Tmesis’, Physical Theatre, Creating duets, Physical theatre and text and workshops in Tmesis’ unique style of movement based theatre.
