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Are you hungry to keep developing your skills, are you a creative performer who wants to be involved in every part of the devising process? Would you like to learn how to devise work without having a script or score to lean on?
Are you interested in learning more about physical theatre, honing your sensitivity and awareness as a performer, and combining disciplines? Are you willing to experiment and to fail, to say ‘yes, and…’ rather than ‘yes, but…’ and learn to work without judgement? Are you willing to train, to listen, to stay playful and creative but keep your eye on the ball? Let’s play. |
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Every six months we hold two open sessions, which gives you and us a chance to see if there’s a match. This isn’t an audition, just a way for us both to get to know each other’s way of working so that we know what we’re getting ourselves into ;)
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For whom?
As a Company, we put a lot of value on training and collaborative practice.
Our training programme is open to professional performers from any discipline (musicians, dancers, actors, performing artists, puppeteers, etc), who are experienced at or interested in learning about devising, physical performance and ensemble work. We also have two places available for talent development. For those places you don’t need to be a professional yet, but you need to be willing to work like one. From all participants we expect that if you partake, you commit fully, turn up on time and throw yourself into the work with as much professionalism as playfulness. |
What does the training consist of?
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Weekly training days
10:00 - 14:00 In the mornings we will work on skills, such as
In the afternoons we use the skills we’ve worked with in the morning or choose an object, theme, sentence, image or gesture and use it to devise new material. We then share that material and work on it. Some training days we may choose to take one or several pieces of generated material and work a little more with these. |
Masterclasses
3 weekends of Saturday & Sunday 10:00 - 16:00 Throughout each training season we have three Weekend Masterclasses. During these weekends we invite an expert tutor, often from abroad, to come and work with us intensively on a specific skill. This coming season the tutors we will be working with are
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Showing
At the end of the season, two performance days
Throughout the season we collect material and work towards a work-in-progress showing that we share with the audience. This work is often a compilation of work we’ve found, without it necessarily having a narrative already.
The point is to share some of our raw and most inventive work with our audience, and invite them to be part of the devising process by discussing with them afterwards what some of the material could lead to. Often these performances end up serving as research & development for a new performance. |
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When
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Open days
10:00 - 14:00 Tuesday, 7, 14 November Participating on both days is preferable as we can get more time to play together. If you can make it to only one open day because of your agenda, we would still like you to join us on that day. |
Weekly training days
10:00 - 14:00 21 November - 21 June After the open days, the programme will run from the 21st of November until the 21st of June. There are no sessions on Tuesdays that fall within school holidays for the West Region. Masterclasses
The dates will be communicated after the final confirmation with the external tutors. |
Where
Avalon Retreat Center in Den Hoorn. See on Google Maps
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Fee
The full cost of the training is €2.700* for non-company members.
* As a professional you are able to get €900 of that back via the Werktuig PPO regeling. The company itself also contributes €900 per company member. This leaves a fee of €1.800 per non-company member and €900 per company member.
** Scholarship: as a company we find talent development vital. To the industry, the company, to artists and to the world. So. If you really really want to be part of this training but are unable to pay the fee, please send us a copy of your CV and a (brief) letter of motivation or a short video, explaining why you want to join, what you hope to gain from participating. Also let us know what you are able to contribute to the company (financially or otherwise). Come join the open days so we can get to know you and your work and then we will see whether we can find a way to help you participate through a scholarship of some sort.
* As a professional you are able to get €900 of that back via the Werktuig PPO regeling. The company itself also contributes €900 per company member. This leaves a fee of €1.800 per non-company member and €900 per company member.
** Scholarship: as a company we find talent development vital. To the industry, the company, to artists and to the world. So. If you really really want to be part of this training but are unable to pay the fee, please send us a copy of your CV and a (brief) letter of motivation or a short video, explaining why you want to join, what you hope to gain from participating. Also let us know what you are able to contribute to the company (financially or otherwise). Come join the open days so we can get to know you and your work and then we will see whether we can find a way to help you participate through a scholarship of some sort.
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Application
Please send a (brief) letter of motivation or a short video & CV to: [email protected] before the open day(s).
Participation in the training will be confirmed after the open days. |