December 5th - 9th
Body Listening
Body Listening is an intensive workshop for actors, dancers, directors, performers and choreographers wishing to further develop their working process in physical, spatial and vocal contexts.
The philosophy and material of the workshop is drawn from ten years' research into performance methodologies in Australia, Asia and Europe.
The workshop offers a series of exercises with regard to concentration, focus and the application of physical and vocal energy designed to develop the participant's presence in the space.
Initial exercises are designed to articulate the awareness of the performer's physical centre by examining factors in the equation of motion: speed, stability and acceleration.
These factors will be developed through challenges to the performer's physical centre in vertical and horizontal planes. Specifically the exercises will examine modes of locomotion such as walking and running, and require the learning of a series of tableaux or statues in static positions.
The physical exercises are designed to input breath, breath on sound, sound and text. The exercises are then transposed to the architecture of indoor and outdoor spaces. Physical and vocal energy is applied over distance and time, in relation to the dimensions of the space and the presence of other performers.
This work is directed toward the development of the sensory potential of the body as a 'discriminating ear;, for receiving, processing and responding to information.
A basic level of fitness is required.
Workshop led by Artistic Director David Pledger
Cost: $250 December 5th - 9th
The Dramaturgy of Making Work
'The Dramaturgy of Making Work' is designed to develop artists' dramaturgy in the making of artworks in discrete and hybrid art-form practice including: theatre, dance, installation, video and performance. It is suitable for performance-makers, designers, choreographers, dramaturgs, writers, theatre directors and video- artists with an interest in performance.
Each participant is invited to bring a project as an idea, a concept or a work-in-progress. These may be in the form of text, video, movement or a verbal presentation. Participants may be individual artists or collaborating artists. Participants will be invited to articulate their projects to the workshop leaders prior to the commencement of the workshop.
An emphasis will be on developing modes and models of collaboration between artists and art-forms. The workshop will require participants to actively engage in the contribution to each other's projects. This engagement will be facilitated by the workshop leaders in consultation with each participant on the development of their project.
The process of the workshop will allow for the workshop leaders to utilise case studies of current and recent company projects to provide problem-solving strategies and dramaturgical devices which may be of benefit to participants. Available case studies include the screen-based, site-specific performance Scenes of The Beginning from The End, the media-plays, K and Blowback, the intercultural- international collaboration, Journey to Confusion and the immersive- cinema installation, Eavesdrop.
The workshop will be led by Artistic Director, David Pledger and founding member, Technical Manager / Design Collaborator, Paul Jackson.
Cost: $250--
For registration of interest and further information, please email Todd MacDonald at
info@notyet.com.au 
