As part of a day where international performers come to UoB to show some of the best work from last year's BE Festival...
Join an international company for a 90-120 minute workshop, and learn the techniques behind their award-winning work. You will explore visual and physical approaches to creating performance, and discover new forms of expression that can help your work travel beyond borders. Afterwards, you’ll be able to watch the company perform their show, and get to see the approaches you’ve learned about in action. It’s a unique chance to work with and learn from award-winning and favourite artists from BE FESTIVAL.
Grumelot presents a 2 hour workshop introducing the devising tools that they have used to develop their shows, including the award winning #sobrejulieta. Participants will work on creating theatrical material in the rehearsal room, taking as a starting point the performer’s relationship with a piece of text, an idea, a stage image, or their biographical material. The encounter between these two elements (performer-material) and the one who watches (i.e. the audience) will be explored during a playful journey through the possibilities of both narrative and non-narrative storytelling.
This workshop is designed for anyone wanting to create their own work. There is no previous experience required, just to come with an open-mind and a piece of text you love (3 to 5 lines), can be Shakespeare, or not.
The workshop is linked to a performance in the Brammall that evening, for information and tickets on that see http://thebramall.co.uk/events/best-of-be-festival/
Grumelot is a Madrid-based company committed to creating thrilling and energetic theatre where the performer’s work is the centre of every production. It is above all, a company of actors and its three members - who take the lead of the artistic process not only as performers but also as artistic directors and designers - interested in contemporary playwriting and classics alike, most of the time looking for a dialogue between the two.
Here’s what previous workshop participants have said:
‘Usually I find movement and physical classes hard to understand but I found this really easy, the way they taught and eased us into it. I felt very comfortable with what we were doing.’
‘The right balance between imagination and technique. Friendly, warm yet also challenging and engaging.’
‘To watch the performance after the workshop added a whole new level of appreciation for the incredible skills of the performers.’