Physical Practice/Imaginal Play
Weekend performance training workshops addressing the bridge between physicality and imagination.
Since 1995 Barry Laing has been developing strategies in performance founded in movement and physical training; measures of scale, choreographic awareness, and image-sense. These workshops are an introduction to this practice.
Participants will explore form, space, ‘music’, image and text via structured improvisations and strategies for ensemble and individual work.
These workshops are suited to a wide range of performance-makers: actors, dancers, improvisers, directors, choreographers and educators etc.
Gain unique insights, skills, and techniques for devising performance work and developing choreography. Learn new physical and imaginal strategies and ways-in to addressing text as an actor, or working with text in interdisciplinary performance. Affirm, challenge and extend your own training and practice.
Participants are encouraged to come with a short text / texts learned by heart (not necessarily dramatic texts or monologues).
Costs: Full - $255, Part-employed - $ 225, Concession - $ 195
BOOKING ESSENTIAL - See How to Make WORKSHOP BOOKINGS
Contact: Ayesha Amos on Mob. 0466 632 933 or Email. blworkshops@yahoo.com.au
Barry Laing is an acclaimed teacher & award-winning director, dramaturge, & performer with a wide and eclectic range of experience in many performance contexts, including theatre, dance and visual arts. He has worked & trained extensively in Europe & Australia since 1989 with Philippe Gaulier, Monika Pagneux, Theatre de Complicite, Pantheatre, Al Wunder & Anzu Furukawa.
Selected participant feedback — Physical Practice/Imaginal Play 2007:
“The workshop was intense, insightful and hugely enjoyable. I highly recommend it to performers and creators of dance and theatre alike.”
“The group experienced a wonderful warmth and positive sense of hard work in the workshop.”
“I enjoyed the workshop immensely, I had fun, I was challenged creatively and imaginatively and I went away with some new ideas about how to do things differently in my own practice.”
“Completely genuine, un-pretentious and generous. (Barry Laing’s) enthusiasm was infectious.”
“(Barry Laing) shared (his) wide-ranging knowledge and practical experience in a generous and accessible way. It was a pleasure to be able to work with such a highly trained practitioner and enthusiastic teacher.”
Weekend performance training workshops addressing the bridge between physicality and imagination.
Since 1995 Barry Laing has been developing strategies in performance founded in movement and physical training; measures of scale, choreographic awareness, and image-sense. These workshops are an introduction to this practice.
Participants will explore form, space, ‘music’, image and text via structured improvisations and strategies for ensemble and individual work.
These workshops are suited to a wide range of performance-makers: actors, dancers, improvisers, directors, choreographers and educators etc.
Gain unique insights, skills, and techniques for devising performance work and developing choreography. Learn new physical and imaginal strategies and ways-in to addressing text as an actor, or working with text in interdisciplinary performance. Affirm, challenge and extend your own training and practice.
Participants are encouraged to come with a short text / texts learned by heart (not necessarily dramatic texts or monologues).
Costs: Full - $255, Part-employed - $ 225, Concession - $ 195
BOOKING ESSENTIAL - See How to Make WORKSHOP BOOKINGS
Contact: Ayesha Amos on Mob. 0466 632 933 or Email. blworkshops@yahoo.com.au
Barry Laing is an acclaimed teacher & award-winning director, dramaturge, & performer with a wide and eclectic range of experience in many performance contexts, including theatre, dance and visual arts. He has worked & trained extensively in Europe & Australia since 1989 with Philippe Gaulier, Monika Pagneux, Theatre de Complicite, Pantheatre, Al Wunder & Anzu Furukawa.
Selected participant feedback — Physical Practice/Imaginal Play 2007:
“The workshop was intense, insightful and hugely enjoyable. I highly recommend it to performers and creators of dance and theatre alike.”
“The group experienced a wonderful warmth and positive sense of hard work in the workshop.”
“I enjoyed the workshop immensely, I had fun, I was challenged creatively and imaginatively and I went away with some new ideas about how to do things differently in my own practice.”
“Completely genuine, un-pretentious and generous. (Barry Laing’s) enthusiasm was infectious.”
“(Barry Laing) shared (his) wide-ranging knowledge and practical experience in a generous and accessible way. It was a pleasure to be able to work with such a highly trained practitioner and enthusiastic teacher.”
