Constant development, collaboration with external professionals and tutors, and a space for talent development
As a company, we are constantly finding ways to keep developing our skills as performers and devisers. We train our bodies and voices, our creativity, our alertness and our playfulness.
We do so through our training programmes, in which we exchange skills, experiment and masterclasses with external tutors.
We use the training to deepen our capacity to respond to impulse, internally as well as collectively; the performer as a shaman, able to use the instrument of the body and our energy to touch on vibrations we don’t access in normal life. Able to use our soul to give life to an object or puppet. Capable of broadening our awareness until we breathe as one, and including an audience in that experience.
We work with rhythm, music, voice, movement, contact improvisation and object manipulation and compilation of the space.
Besides this, we continue to develop our devising skills and collective creativity through exercises and assignments, creating new pieces of material from and object, image, word or sound. We then work on some of the uncovered material until it is ‘good enough’.
We do so through our training programmes, in which we exchange skills, experiment and masterclasses with external tutors.
We use the training to deepen our capacity to respond to impulse, internally as well as collectively; the performer as a shaman, able to use the instrument of the body and our energy to touch on vibrations we don’t access in normal life. Able to use our soul to give life to an object or puppet. Capable of broadening our awareness until we breathe as one, and including an audience in that experience.
We work with rhythm, music, voice, movement, contact improvisation and object manipulation and compilation of the space.
Besides this, we continue to develop our devising skills and collective creativity through exercises and assignments, creating new pieces of material from and object, image, word or sound. We then work on some of the uncovered material until it is ‘good enough’.
Work-in-progress
Using the material found in training, we slowly begin to work towards a work-in-progress performance that we share with some of our audience. This is the rawest and often most inventive material, not yet made into a coherent production.
Through doing so, we make our audience complicit in the devising process, and we throw ideas back and forth after the showing of what the material could lead to. More often than not, our training serves as research and development for future productions.
Through doing so, we make our audience complicit in the devising process, and we throw ideas back and forth after the showing of what the material could lead to. More often than not, our training serves as research and development for future productions.
External input, skills exchange & co-inspiration
We like to invite performers from outside the company to train with us, so that we not only improve and deepen our own work, but share skills and inspiration with others. Because of this, and due to the lack of devised performance training in the Netherlands, we open our training programme up to a limited number of external professionals from various disciplines.
Master classes
In every training series, we include two or three weekend masterclasses tought by performance tutors from outside The Netherlands. We invite people who inspire us and teach skills that we would like to become better at as a company. These skills are then integrated into our company practice, enriching the work to come.
Talent development
Besides our own company and the training space we create for external professionals, we also find tremendous value in our talent development programme. In each training course we have space for two trainees with exceptional talent who for any reason have not had the opportunity to train professionally.
Some of these trainees later join our apprenticeship programme, which involves them joining the company for a number of shows in a row, learning on the job and building up a network within the profession. These apprentices often then become professional devisers within their own right, working within and outside of the company.
We like to invite performers from outside the company to train with us, so that we not only improve and deepen our own work, but share skills and inspiration with others. Because of this, and due to the lack of devised performance training in the Netherlands, we open our training programme up to a limited number of external professionals from various disciplines.
Master classes
In every training series, we include two or three weekend masterclasses tought by performance tutors from outside The Netherlands. We invite people who inspire us and teach skills that we would like to become better at as a company. These skills are then integrated into our company practice, enriching the work to come.
Talent development
Besides our own company and the training space we create for external professionals, we also find tremendous value in our talent development programme. In each training course we have space for two trainees with exceptional talent who for any reason have not had the opportunity to train professionally.
Some of these trainees later join our apprenticeship programme, which involves them joining the company for a number of shows in a row, learning on the job and building up a network within the profession. These apprentices often then become professional devisers within their own right, working within and outside of the company.