For workshop bookings please contact Maria Dickinson:
email maria@tmesistheatre.com
or call 0798 932 1714
Tmesis Theatre Workshops introduce the company's powerful, experimental movement training and exercises for body awareness, movement techniques, looks at physical methods in devising theatre and how improvisation can be used to create material and physical starting points for creating characters. Tmesis's strong physical style of theatre and training methods have been enriched by the challenging collaborations with Derevo and Pina Baush Tanztheater for the production of Memento Mori and Anima.
Tmesis Theatre Workshops are well known for teaching the participants ways to push their barriers through training and improvisation.
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Education & Workshops
The company has a commitment to widening access to physical theatre through its education and audience development.
Tmesis Theatre's Education work promotes participation in the arts as a stimulating and creative pursuit within schools. The company encourages students and audiences to develop their own interests and to experience personal growth through the work of the company.
Tmesis Theatre offer a number of set workshops throughout the year, as well as being able to tailor make workshops to suit your specific needs.
The workshops are two hours-one day in length, the size, age group and ability are flexible. The workshops can be created in order to work with disabled participants/groups.
The workshops always aim to promote the confidence of the performer/ student as well as improving their physical capabilities and teaching new skills which can be applied to their own work.
Workshop Elements
Creating Tmesis
How two people can move as one. A workshop specifically based around the physical devising methods we used to create the show. We look at: how two people can move as one, using exercises, partner work and basic acrobatics which culminates in creating choreographed movement sequences.
Acrobatics
This workshop introduces students to the basics of acrobatics, teaching a series of lifts and moves and using what they have learnt to create movement sequences.
Physical/movement Theatre
This workshop introduces powerful movement training and exercises for body awareness, movement techniques,-basic acrobatics, teaching a series of lifts and moves and using what they have learnt to create movement sequences. It is based around using non-textual communication to tell a narrative.
Improvisation/ Devising
This workshop looks at physical methods in devising theatre, how improvisation can be used to create material and physical starting points for creating characters.
Residencies/ Performance Project
Momentum run different forms of residencies, from 1 day to 2 weeks
The company can devise a piece with the students, which can then be performed at the end of the project; alongside this the company offers training in physical theatre.
The company, or the organisation can choose the theme of the project; we can also devise projects, which assist the school/ college curriculum.
