An introduction to Keith Johnstone’s Trance and Full Masks. A powerful way to unlock the actor’s creativity and to discover how to be expressive by engaging the whole body. Facilitated by Simone Tani, co-founder of the award-winning clown and bouffon company Teatro Pomodoro. The workshop will focus on improvisation exercises without masks, with half and full-face masks to explore different approaches and learn how those affect the performer’s body.

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An uplifting and energising ensemble physical theatre deep dive, centred around our core principles of celebration, joy and bravery.

Across 2 invigorating days, refuel your artistic self, unpack creative tools for devising, and delve deep into a process of making vivid theatrical images, creating expressive physical performance and developing a deep relationship to the self and others.

Babel’s work fuses powerful physicality, poetic text, atmospheric music and creative design to forge a total sense of theatre.

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An opportunity to learn basic pole technique, including preparation for climbing and spinning, and a short contemporary pole sequence. You will also be given fun creative tasks that will enable you to approach the pole from your creative perspective as a performer.

Rowena is an international performer who has been teaching, making, and performing work with the pole for 8 years. Her experimental approach to pole has received much critical acclaim.

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This workshop will focus on developing a playful, expressive performer, opening up our expressive potential through play, connection and movement. We will explore, creating physical sequences, physical devising methods and working as an embodied ensemble to explore ideas, emotion, character or story.

Tmesis Theatre create, develop and share passionate and playful physical theatre, through; acclaimed performance, participation, training, and our festival.

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We will leave our idea of how we think we’re funny and enter the unknown, at times uncomfortable, but ultimately fruitful, land of the bad.. where great inventions might be discovered!

We will explore: sensitivity to the audience, lightness and pleasure, following our impulse, and the comic potential of mistakes and vulnerability. For any kind of performers, and curious people from all walks of life.

Julia is an award-winning working clown and has taught at  Ecole Philippe Gaulier in France, where she also studied.

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This workshop will ideally help you find your freedom and stupidity on stage and connect more deeply with an audience. Please note – this workshop can be quite difficult. I (Dr. Brown/Philip Burgers) am there to point out when something you did on stage is NOT working. With the acceptance of failure, you can learn to be more open and vulnerable in front of a group of strangers and then make them piss themselves by showing them how stupid you (and only you) can be.

Dr. Brown trained at Ecole Philippe Gaulier, since then he has travelled the world with his award-winning shows, starred in TV and also directed the Netflix Comedy Special, ‘Nate’.

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Suzuki is a theatrical training developed by the director Tadashi Suzuki and his company SCOT, in Japan, which brings together a universal and deep grammar for the artist, enhancing and multiplying their expressive and emotional capacities, as well as their internal sensitivity and imagination.

Colectivo Jat a physical theatre company, are disciples of Tadashi Suzuki, and are based in Faro, they also run MOMI – International Festival of Physical Theatre – Algarve.

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