Giovanni Fusetti Collaborations

February 9th - 13th
Conversations with The Fools
A week of seminars, panels and lectures on physical theatre and beyond. Presented by Giovanni Fusetti, Kimberley Twiner and other guests from the physical theatre family.
INFO TO BE ANNOUNCED

February 16th - 20th
The Language of Gestures - 4 PLACES LEFT
From pantomime to le treteau (theatre in very small spaces) to bandes mimees (devising short pantomimes).
Lead teacher: Giovanni Fusetti
MORE INFO HERE

February 23rd - 28th
The Storyteller - ALMOST SOLD OUT
The actor as storyteller, shapeshifter and voice crafter.
Lead teacher: Giovanni Fusetti
MORE INFO HERE

March 23rd - 27th

Personality dell'Arte - FILLING UP FAST

The play of roles in relationships: an exploration of the self as a community through Psychodrama and Physical Theatre.

Lead Teachers: Giovanni Fusetti and Zsofi Kigyossy

MORE INFO HERE

Neutral Mask, Clown, Bouffon

Mar 9th - 13th
Neutral Mask - The Wilderness of the Body
When we take the character of the face away the human body can be seen in its fullness - the body becomes the story.
Lead Teacher: Kimberley Twiner
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April 27th -1st May
Red Nose Clown - The Somatic Clown Journey
A great gift to every stage actor who wants to become aware of what is uniquely comedic about them.
Lead Teacher: Kimberley Twiner

Read about the process here.
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May 4th - 8th
Bouffon - Play Fuels the Fire
A wild style of physical comedy rooted in satire, mockery, parody, grotesque, tragedy and fierce ensemble play.

Read about Bouffon here.
Lead Teacher: Kimberley Twiner
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Any questions can be directed straight to me, ktwiner@gmail.com or call me on 0468664466.

5 day workshop

March 9th - 13th, 2026

In the Lecoq lineage of Mask, Mime and Movement Theatre the Neutral Mask comes first. We learn that it is the mask that trains all the other masks. What emerges is the purity of the body as movement in space. When we take the character of the face away the human body can be seen in its fullness. The body becomes the story.

This series of workshops will contain a suite of classic movement exercises and tasks that accompany the Neutral Mask. This work brings the performer's habits or somatic patterns into bright awareness. We will learn to play something other than ourself.

Another beautiful thing about this training is the silence. It is a pre-verbal form so we learn a lot about the poetry and potential of silence. We learn that silence can be very loud. How can we give a huge dramatic projection in silence, or even stillness? Neutral Mask attunes us to ‘the space’. Seeing the space, playing with space and noticing the space-in-between is central to the Lecoq methodology.

Creating a larger-than-life space, becoming non-ordinary is the job of the actor. The actor, with one look, has the ability to create a vast horizon even if they are performing in a tiny room. Neutral Mask invites the player to imagine and create very big exciting theatrical territories. No props, no costumes, no text is required. It is a bold and generous state.

Neutral Mask challenges us to leave our character off for a while. It trains an expensive and highly aware stage performer.

The training will cover:

• Somatic movement analysis - moving us towards our neutral body
• Creating and playing in ‘imagined space’
• Breath and stage existence
• Articulation, fixed point
• Action, gesture, mime
• Tempo, timing
• Playing many rhythms
• Learning how to attack
• Confidence in silence, stillness
• Embodied engagement
• Some of Lecoq’s 20 Movements

There is no application process for this workshop.

Dates and Times:

March

Mon 9th - Fri 13th

9.30am - 3.30pm each day

**It is compulsory to attend all classes as this is a strict learning continuum aka one class leads into the next.

Venue: The Ballroom at Donkey Wheelhouse, 673 Bourke St, Melbourne CBD, 3000

Prices:

Deposit: $250.00 NON-REFUNDABLE

Early Bird Price (Full payment due by Feb 9th): $550.00

Normal Price: $700.00 (Any payments made after Feb 9th)

Neutral Mask Loyalty Price: $450.00 (For people who have studied Neutral Mask with Giovanni Fusetti or myself before).

Once accepted into the course you are required to pay a non-refundable deposit - which secures your place in the course. Failure to pay within 5 days will see your place forfeited. If you are paying the entire fee straight up please know that it contains the deposit.

Read the refund policy here.

Minimum participants: 9

Maximum participants: 16

Minimum number of participants must be enrolled by Feb 9th for the workshop to go ahead.

BOOK HERE:

https://www.trybooking.com/DHSNW

5 day workshop

27th April - 1st May, 2026

The Somatic Clown Journey is a great gift to every stage actor who wants to become aware of what is uniquely comedic about them. This is a process created and refined by Giovanni Fusetti and which I have learned to teach. The Somatic Clown Journey is directly related to the study of Neutral Mask. In Neutral Mask we wish to calm our idiosyncrasies, we want to become neutral, to clear the slate to prepare to put on character masks - for theatre is a practice of wearing masks. However, The Somatic Clown Journey is a process parallel to this where we embrace and celebrate what is non-neutral about us and amplify it - voila we have a comedic form!

So, we will find your clown form by working with… YOU. Your body is already wonderfully stupid and we will go hunting to find what is hiding in plain sight, to amplify your natural stupidity. This amplification of stupidity will lay the bones of play for your ‘clown form’ or ‘clown mask’. The word stupid, comes from Latin ‘stupere’ which means to be in awe, amazed or stunned. We use the word stupid in its positive and regenerative sense - for being available to wonder is naive. Clown work must contain a play of wonder, a play of amazement. Each clown character will engage in the world with a unique sense of stupidity. To be stupid is wonder-full.

Our clown journey will be a process of awareness building and attunement of play. There are two key processes of learning in this course 1) discovering your clown form to make comic work and 2) physical theatre skills training from the Fusetti-Lecoq lineage. The clown form will be seen via a process of mirroring and amplifying. There will be certain movement patterns in the body that, once we are aware of them, we can play them. Then, clown-actor has an endless field of comic possibilities to play with. Across the five days we will cover the fundamentals of performing in the clown state.

Finding The Clown Form

-Personal movement analysis, mirroring

-Embodied amplification as your clown mask emerges

-Consolidating rhythm, tempo, bodily shape

-Finding status

-Finding voice

-Finding costume

-Finding the name

The Clown State

-The performers eyes, breath and body engagement

-Relationship with the audience, full eye contact

-Practising ‘affect attunement’ the clown must engage in heightened emotional play

Mask Technique

-The technique of the articulation the mask

-Principles of Commedia dell’Arte and lazzi

-Lecoq’s 20 Movements

-Gesture, pantomime and Action Mime

-Physical engagement required for the stage

Playing and Improvisation

-Techniques of improvising with solo and duos

-Status play

-Non-verbal improvisation tasks

-Noticing the themes to create physical comedy

-Action and reaction, crescendo

-How to notate and return to improvised work and do it again

Feedback Process

-Performers will receive feedback from the teacher throughout the process

-Maintaining and sustaining the masked state

Clown work is mask work. Mask work is embodied play underpinned by a clear foundation of technique. Humans have been putting on masks and telling stories for a very long time. These 5 days will invite you to find a clown form. It will be a very clear and urgent mask for comedy, storytelling and anything else it dreams up!

This course is in line with ‘The Somatic Clown Journey’ a pedagogic process devised and refined by Giovanni Fusetti. Giovanni has been my main teacher since 2017. As a performer I have studied many theatrical territories under his tutelage. I am one of five Australians to have completed ‘An Advanced Training in the Pedagogy of Movement Theatre’ at Helikos School (Italy) in 2019. Since then I have accumulated 500+ hours in the role of pedagogic assistant with Giovanni Fusetti. My practice has been concretized in the Lecoq lineage of mask, mime and movement theatre. Please read my blog on the process here.

Dates and Times:

9.30am - 4.30pm

Mon 27th April - Fri 1st May (On Wednesday we will finish at 3.30pm)

**It is compulsory to attend all classes as this is a strict learning continuum aka one class leads into the next. You cannot skip any portions of class

Venue: Pascoe Vale Uniting Church, 10 Cumberland Rd, Pascoe Vale

Prices

Deposit: $250.00 NON-REFUNDABLE

Super early applications (Full payment due by Feb 27th): $675.00

Normal early price: (Full payment due by March 27th): $775.00

Standard Price (For payments completed after March 27th): $875.00

Once accepted into the course you are required to pay a non-refundable deposit - which secures your place in the course. Failure to pay within 5 days will see your place forfeited. If you are paying the entire fee straight up please know that it contains the deposit.

Read the refund policy here.

Minimum participants: 8

Maximum participants: 12

Minimum number of participants must be enrolled by April 13th for the workshop to go ahead.

APPLY VIA EMAIL

To apply please send a letter of motivation to Kimberley Twiner at ktwiner@gmail.com

In your letter please address:

• Your existing physical theatre practice (short bio of previous training and shows)
• Your experience with Lecoq theatre work
• Why clown? Why now?
• Any other driving provocations or inspirations that pull you towards this work.

A note on AI. Please do not use AI to generate your letter, this is not a job application, it is not about you ‘looking good’ it is about you expressing your drives, motivations, urgencies and poetic visions. We are fierce resistors of the plagiarizing machine that is known as AI. We deplore its impact on ecology, society and creativity. AI is inherently uncreative and applications shaped by AI will not be accepted.

Please forward any questions to Kimberley Twiner ktwiner@gmail.com or call on 0468664466.

5 day workshop

May 4th - 8th, 2026

Has your satirical eye been firing off lately?

Bouffon is a style of physical comedy that is rooted in satire, parody, grotesque and tragedy. It is created through wild ensemble play, a style of group improvisation called flocking. Bouffon is geared toward mockery.

Bouffon is a style of theatre that requires the actor to become larger than life. The work is not cognitive or conceptual and is driven by seemingly irrational child-like play. The work asks you to become bigger! Characters, situations and themes become saturated and amplified.

The themes that appear in Bouffon work speak to its roots in Greek theatre, it is a combination of comedy, tragedy and satirical madness. Bouffon work is about the big themes of the world and the cosmos. Bouffon creators have an interest in the pervasive injustice and hypocrisy of the now. They revel in upending power and they delight in saying the unsaid, the shadows of humanity. Bouffons love all the roles involved in a theme… They must play the oil barron millionaire, the poor sick worker, the people who fill their cars with petrol and of course they must play ‘the oil’.

The Bouffon-actor must be a shapeshifter, which means they have to SEE-IT-ALL, to BECOME-IT-ALL. The style requires fierce playing of multiple masks because Bouffons love cause and effect. Bouffons are highly animistic and see life in everything. The Bouffon-actor can transform to become anything. It is grounded in the mimo dynamique training of Jacques Lecoq, where the actor must observe the world and learn to imitate the world. This one week workshop will cover the fundamentals of Bouffon.

Bouffon state

-How the eyes must be used, gaze

-The mocking state: exaggeration and amplification

-The rhythm and tempo of bouffon play

-The body mask

Physical theatre

-Level of bodily engagement required

-Action and reaction, crescendo

-Gesture, pantomime and Action Mime

-Character commitment

Group improvisation

-Working together as a group, complicity

-The yes game

-Ensemble movement

-Embodied storytelling

-Developing themes

-Embodied writing processes

History of the Theatre

-Theory on Greek Tragedy

-Dionysian ritual and myth

-The links between Satyr plays and modern satire

-Medieval, carnival, festival

-Commedia dell’Arte skills

This course is in line with the Bouffon process devised and refined by Giovanni Fusetti. Giovanni has been my main teacher since 2017. As a performer I have studied many theatrical territories under his tutelage. I am one of five Australians to have completed ‘An Advanced Training in the Pedagogy of Movement Theatre’ at Helikos School (Italy) in 2019. Since then I have accumulated 500+ hours in the role of pedagogic assistant with Giovanni Fusetti. My practice has been concretized in the Lecoq lineage of mask, mime and movement theatre. Kimberley has devised and performed in two Bouffon shows. For more on Bouffon read here.

Dates and Times:

9.30am - 4.30pm

Mon 4th - Fri 8th May (On Wednesday we will finish at 3.30pm)

**It is compulsory to attend all classes as this is a strict learning continuum aka one class leads into the next. You cannot skip any portions of class

Venue: Pascoe Vale Uniting Church, 10 Cumberland Rd, Pascoe Vale

Prices

Deposit: $250.00 NON-REFUNDABLE

Super early applications (Full payment due by March 4th): $675.00

Normal early price (Full payment due by April 4th): $775.00

Standard Price (For payments completed after April 4th): $875.00

Once accepted into the course you are required to pay a non-refundable deposit - which secures your place in the course. Failure to pay within 5 days will see your place forfeited. If you are paying the entire fee straight up please know that it contains the deposit.

Read the refund policy here.

Minimum participants: 9

Maximum participants: 16

Minimum number of participants must be enrolled by April 4th for the workshop to go ahead.

APPLY VIA EMAIL

To apply please send a letter of motivation to Kimberley Twiner at ktwiner@gmail.com.

In your letter please address:

• Your existing physical theatre practice (short bio of previous training and shows)
• Your experience with the Lecoq work
• Why bouffon? Why now?
• Any other driving provocations or inspirations that pull you towards this work.

A note on AI. Please do not use AI to generate your letter, this is not a job application, it is not about you ‘looking good’ it is about you expressing your drives, motivations, urgencies and poetic visions. We are fierce resistors of the plagiarizing machine that is known as AI. We deplore its impact on ecology, society and creativity. AI is inherently uncreative and applications shaped by AI will not be accepted.

Please forward any questions to Kimberley Twiner ktwiner@gmail.com or 0468664466.

Winter 2025

Silent Comedy: No words, big funnies - by Kimberley Twiner

Slow down, Play fast: Learn to Improvise with Each Other - Kimberley Twiner

What's in a Wig: Building a Character Workshop - Kimberley Twiner

Larval Mask: Playfulness, articulation and naivety (3 days) - Beth Twentyman

Autumn 2025

Neutal Mask (5 weeks) - Kimberley Twiner

Clown (5 weeks) - Kimberley Twiner

Bouffon: Studies in Mockery, Satire and Grotesque (8 weeks) - by Kimberley Twiner

Shakespeare's Voice (4 weeks) - by Rob Meldrum

Summer 2024

Pedagogic Supervision Group (2 days) - by Giovanni Fusetti

The Greenhouse of Fools (5 days) - by Giovanni Fusetti

The Politics of The Fool (5 days) - by Giovanni Fusetti

Conversations with The Fool (5 days) - by Giovanni Fusetti

Winter 2024

Bouffon: Play Fuels the Fire (5 days) - by Kimberley Twiner

A Clown is Born (5 days) - by Kimberley Twiner

Summer 2023/24

Australia Dell'Arte (2 weeks) - by Giovanni Fusetti

Clowns Life (2 weeks) - by Giovanni Fusetti

Winter 2023

Melodrama: More is More (3 days) - by Kimberley Twiner

Character: An Embodied Way In (3 days) - by Kimberley Twiner

Physical Theatre Conditioning: Invigorating the Poetic Body - by Kimberley Twiner

Mimodynamique Training: Animal Drives - by Kimberley Twiner

Autumn 2023

Physical Theatre Conditioning: Invigorating the Poetic Body - by Kimberley Twiner

Mimodynamique Training: Animal Drives - by Kimberley Twiner

Summer 2023

Mimodynamique of The Colours - by Kimberley Twiner

Bouffon (5 Days) - by Kimberley Twiner

Summer 2022

The 20 Movements - by Giovanni Fusetti

The Red Nose Journey - by Giovanni Fusetti

The Neutral Mask in Nature - by Giovanni Fusetti

The Spirit of Commedia dell'Arte - by Giovanni Fusetti

Winter 2021

Abbotsford Convent Pivot Residency Project - by Kimberley Twiner

Autumn 2021

Bouffon 2 Day Workshop - by Kimberley Twiner

Clown Play 2 Day Workshop - by Kimberley Twiner

Flock Fit in the Park Series - by Kimberley Twiner

Winter 2020

Outdoor Physical Theatre Conditioning Series - by Kimberley Twiner

Summer 2020

From the Neutral Mask to Red Nose - by Giovanni Fusetti

The Pedagogy of Bouffon - by Giovanni Fusetti

Bouffon and the Ecstasy of Mocking - by Giovanni Fusetti

Spring 2020

Drag 101: Performing Skills - by Kimberley Twiner

Character Charge Up - by Kimberley Twiner

Pedagogic Reflections on Via Negativa an article by Giovanni Fusetti

Rabelais and his World by Mikhail Bakhtin

Copeau: Texts on Theatre by Jacques Copeau

The Archetypal Artist by Mary Antonia Wood

A History of the Dance by Curt Sachs

Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord

The Dance Cure by Dr Peter Lovatt

Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich

The Poetic Body (also known as The Moving Body) by Jacques Lecoq

Women Who Run With The Wolves by Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The Empty Space by Peter Brook

Why Is That So Funny? by John Wright

True and False by David Mamet

Every Little Movement by Ted Shawn