For performers, directors, choreographers, artists and interested individuals

These three exceptional workshop tutors offer their expertise on performance that merges different skills. Bert van Dijk combines voice and movement techniques to sharpen the presence of the performer, John Downie journeys into dramatic structure for performance-makers to hang their skills on to, while Frank van de Ven leads an exploration into space itself and the relationships between all of us. Tutors bios are available online at npfestival.co.nz
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Thought/Action: A Workshop With Frank van de Ven and Peter Snow
Van de Ven and Snow’s work on stage is grounded in the training and performance practice Body Weather. In this two-day workshop they will introduce their approach to improvised movement and words, which they have been developing through their ongoing Thought/Action performance work over the last 10 years.

When Sat 18 & Sun 19 February, 10am – 4pm
Tickets Two day workshop $100*
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Presence, Voice & Theatre: A workshop with Bert van Dijk
Bert van Dijk’s theatre research has focused on turning presence into an operational device. By defining presence as the ability to be alive in the moment – to have all senses (hearing, sight, taste, smell, touch and intuition) alert and ready in the ever-changing moment – has become a skill that can be developed.

Bert will introduce the participants to four strategies to enhance their presence: balancing the senses; extending the circle of presence, eliminating what gets in the way of presence; integrating foreground and background in our sensory perception and opportunities to apply presence in a variety of vocal and performance techniques, aiming to extend vocal range and expression and to improve quality of being when performing vocal and physical actions.

When Thurs 23 & Fri 24 February, 10am – 4pm
Tickets Two day workshop $60*
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Designing Actions to Time and Space: A workshop with John Downie
A performance contains many kinds of ‘texts’: verbal, visual, aural, musical, choreographic, scenic. So what kind of questions need to be asked at the outset of scoring and scripting, which can allow/provide for a conscious multidisciplinary?

What kinds of content arise from an inventive and experimental sense of both myth and history? What kinds of rhetorical forms and shapes are provided by contemporary knowledge systems? What do words on the page look like when expressing a current dramaturgy?

This is a writing workshop to locate content; deepen ideas; redefine forms.

When Sat 25 February, 10am – 4pm
Tickets One day workshop $30*
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To book all workshops: 0800 BUYTICKETS or buytickets.co.nz
Venue for all workshops: Goodman Fielder Room, Level 4, Aotea Centre

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