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Workshop Title: Circus Arts

Tutor: Shelalagh McGovern

Workshop Summary: Everyone is good at something in the circus. This is a physical workshop providing participants an opportunity to engage with and learn circus arts. Starting with a series of drama games, the participants will be taught a range of circus skills, acro-balance, hula hoops, juggling and where possible trapeze and tissue. 

Audience: Primary School. Secondary School, Young People

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Workshop Title: Introduction to Dance Technique and Choreography 

Tutor: Nerida Matthaei

Workshop Summary: Students are introduced to dance technique and choreographic skills through fun and interactive workshops aiming to enhance their movement skills and collaborate to choreograph dance phrases. Expected outcomes for the workshops include fun, fitness, enhanced dance technique and choreographic skills. A performance outcome is an outcome depending on the communities needs. The theme of the workshops and performance outcome can be tailored for each communities needs i.e curriculum, project needs and community focus.   

Audience: Primary School. Secondary School, Young People, Adults

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Workshop Title: Improvisation

Tutor: Clark Crystal

Workshop Summary: This workshop will explore the notion of physical and visual theatre through use of improvisation techniques. It will be fun with plenty of laughs. The participants will be introduced to new approaches to theatre making, which are grounded in working through the body. Through games and exercises we will investigate rhythms, status and character. Participants will become more informed about body awareness and articulation as a tool to improvise and create theatre. Further outcomes will include a new catalogue of improvisation vocabulary. 

Audience: Secondary School, Young People, Adult, Seniors

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Workshop Title: Ways In - Speaking without Words

Tutor: Clark Crystal

Workshop Summary: Ensemble games and activities to explore the way we use our bodies to communicate through gesture, facial expression and body language. The students use their bodies to explore the space around them and the dramatic conventions of “freeze” and “tableau” (a still picture) to express feelings and ideas without the pressure of finding the right words. 

Audience: Primary School

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Workshop Title: Being Silly - The Art of Clowning

Tutor: Clark Crystal

Workshop Summary: This workshop explores the humanity of the clown. We reflect the history of the silent movie with early Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers. Participants will be introduced to the art of clowning. To the fantastic world of the clown and the imagination of the clown. The participant will use the “smallest mask in the word”- The red nose. The participant will be introduced to the vulnerability of the clown and what draws the audience in. The clown wants to please but rather than getting things right, gets them wrong. We will create clown routines for 2 and 3 clowns.

Audience: Primary School. Secondary School, Young People

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