Inua Ellams merges theatre, poetry and visual art, telling stories with iconic imagery, humour and beauty. He writes about his upbringing, the experience of immigration, and of living in the UK today, bringing words to life with pace, rhythm, cadence and intonation. Join Inua for this professional development workshop before his show Black T-Shirt Collection which has just been performed at the National Theatre, a fantastic opportunity to work with a nationally acclaimed, fringe first award winning spoken word and theatre artist looking at the skills and techniques used in his writing process particularly how to create a three dimensional character within a short space of time.

Professional development workshop with Mish Weaver to explore the potential of circus disciplines and training in making new work. A discursive and practical approach to working with circus disciplines and movement in the making of performance - looking at process and integration of skills with content.  Through a series of games and improvisation, we will explore circus as a story telling and entertainment genre. Director of Box of Frogs, Mish Weaver, has been teaching, performing, choreographing and directing in circus and dance performance for over twenty years and still loves it.

Led by Upswing’s Artistic Director, Vicki Amedume, the workshop utilised a variety of pieces of equipment including aerial hoop, strops and silks. Mixing techniques from trapeze, acrobatics and dance.  It is a dynamic and energetic session through which you can use flight, momentum and lift to create exciting solo and duet routines.

Drawing on Third Angel’s own methods of creating theatre and installation, this workshop is designed to explore a number of different avenues initiating the making of new work, focusing on rule-based systems of devising, which restrict the performer’s options but consequently encourage creative results. Led by Third Angel’s Artistic Director, Alexander Kelly.

This workshop explored the creation of live filmic effects on stage.

This workshop equiped participants with the tools to devise new work both individually and collaboratively. Using Live Art and contemporary performance strategies, students generated material which explored the personal, political and popular in our everyday lives.

During a two-hour physical theatre workshop a member of RedCape Theatre explored themes from their show 1 Beach Road and shared some of their devising techniques with participants.
Students experienced a physical and vocal warm up, explore the letters using physicality and voice to create space, discover how to communicate when you don’t have a shared language, and will finish the session by creating a devised short performance for the group.