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    2026 Workshops Calendar

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    Nov 2nd - 6th

    Emotions as Action: From Neutral, to Nature, to Melodrama

    Lead Teacher: Kimberley Twiner

    What if we didn't have to 'get emotional' to play emotions?

    A workshop on the moving vitality of emotions that embraces a non-psychological approach to acting. We will spend the week learning about emotional play and then apply it to the super fun genre of Melodrama.

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    Nov 9th -13th

    Red Nose Clown: The Somatic Clown Journey

    Lead Teacher: Kimberley Twiner

    The Somatic Clown Journey is a great gift to every stage actor who wants to become aware of what is uniquely comedic about them.

    A unique process that finds the clown character hiding in plain sight. This workshop is a celebration of your non-neutrality and an invitation to embrace the naive clown state.

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    Nov 30th - Dec 4th

    Fantastic Bouffons: Fairytales and Extreme Characters

    Lead Teacher: Kimberley Twiner

    A playful bouffon approach grounded in archetypcal characters and stories. The creatures of fairytales are often transgressive and go beyond realistic functions. There is an otherworldly wildness and ruthlessness to the contents that can easily move us into the saturated playful style of Bouffon.

  • The Blog

    Thoughts, musings and ruminations written by Kimberley Twiner.

    27. November 2025
    When a performer becomes aware of their movement or speaking habits their potential exponentially grows. Habits can be a source of annoyance; patterns that are always getting in the road. Or habits can be a source of great, generative, renewing play and performative awareness. In clown we are...
    21. Januar 2025 · Bouffon,Lecoq,Physical Theatre,Mockery
    Bouffon is a satyrical, grotesque physical comedy grounded in mockery. As a formalized style of theatre, Bouffon can be traced to the Lecoq school of mask, mime and movement theatre in Paris. In the 1970s the pedagogic director, Jacques Lecoq, started to explore a core performance dynamic...
    The movement doesn’t mean something, it is something. Mimo Dynamique training is a type of theatre training that is grounded in one key principle: observe the world then imitate it. It is a pillar of the Lecoq pedagogy of Mask, Mime and Movement Theatre and can create a really liberating state...