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Flock Fit
Flock Fit in the Park
Calling all flockers! Do you want to practice the technique of flocking as well as work on your fitness?If you know what flocking is you’ll know how it can get your cardio pumping, your endorphins zinging and your whole poetic body buzzing! If you’re new to the technique be prepared to have a totally ecstatic time!Across four Wednesdays in March we will meet and dedicate our time to two things, chorus movement and aerobic movement. The technique we will be practicing is the flocking method - it is improvised group movement, (similar to but not the same as the school of fish work). The lead teacher Kimberley Twiner will introduce the group to the method of flocking, and each week a new piece of the technique will be practiced.You will play, you will get sweaty, you will move!Where:
Balfe Park, John St, BrunswickWhen:
March
Wednesday 3rd - 6:00pm - 7:15pm
Wednesday 10th - 6:00pm - 7:15pm
Wednesday 17th - 6:00pm - 7:15pm
Wednesday 24th - 6:00pm - 7:15pmYou are required to attend all sessions.
All sessions will include a warm up and a warm down.All levels of experience are welcome.
Class size is limited to 12.Prices:
Full: $100.00
Conc: $80.00Mates rates, payment plans, and scholarships are available if you seek them out with me.You can also Pay It Forward - if you’d like to sponsor someone’s place in the workshop just because you feel generous get in contact with me!This workshop is non-contact and will be practiced in accordance with any Covid Safe rules and regulations in place at the time.Questions?
Contact Kimberley Twiner - ktwiner@gmail.comClown Play
Clown Play - Two Day Workshop
Invigorate your clown!Across two days we will visit the state of clown. We will look at the technique behind the red nose as well as the physical state required to experience the world through the mask of clown.We will explore the timing and tempo of clown work and how the clown FEELS and SHARES its way through. Emotion is important for the play, they don’t just stay on one track, their emotions are not fixed into a generic state of ‘happy’ or a generic state of ‘grumpy’ or a generic state of ‘bossy’. We will practice letting emotion come, go and evolve.We will work out how the clowns can play together (in duos) and find the sweet spot where the clowns are really listening to each other and playing together.
Where:
Workroom 2, Siteworks, BrunswickWhen:
March
Saturday 27th 9:30am - 3:30pm
Sunday 28th 9 :30am - 3:30pmAll levels of experience are welcome.
You are required to attend both sessions.
Class size is limited to 16.Prices:
Early Bird: $200.00 (Book before 13th March)
Late Bird: $250.00Mates rates, payment plans, and scholarships are available if you seek them out with me.You can also Pay It Forward - if you’d like to sponsor someone’s place in the workshop just because you feel generous get in contact with me!This workshop is non-contact and will be practiced in accordance with any Covid Safe rules and regulations in place at the time.Questions?
Contact Kimberley Twiner - ktwiner@gmail.comBouffon
Bouffon - Two Day Workshop
Has your satirical eye been firing off lately?Bouffon is satirical physical comedy. It is created in an ensemble, and devised through group improvisation. This workshop is a refresher course for people who have done Bouffon before and wish to reignite the flame but it will also serve as an introduction to the form for people who have not encountered it before.Bouffon is a style of theatre that requires larger than life play, we seek to train our playing body to become grotesque, saturated with humanities themes. For the Bouffon to play with such lightness we must train a sharp eagle eye to SEE-IT-ALL and we must train the shapeshifting body to be able to BECOME-IT-ALL.We will ground ourselves in movement complicite through the technique of flocking, and we will practice how to make theatrical moments bigger - amplify them. And we will look at what to do when we improvise great work and then want to turn it into something repeatable and performable.Where:
Workroom 2, Siteworks, BrunswickWhen:
April
Saturday 3rd 9:30am - 3:30pm
Sunday 4th 9:30am - 3:30pmAll levels of experience are welcome.
You are required to attend both sessions.
Class size is limited to 16.Prices:
Early Bird: $200.00 (Book before 20th March)
Late Bird: $250.00Mates rates, payment plans, and scholarships are available if you seek them out with me.You can also Pay It Forward - if you’d like to sponsor someone’s place in the workshop just because you feel generous get in contact with me!This workshop is non-contact and will be practiced in accordance with any Covid Safe rules and regulations in place at the time.Questions?
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About
Started by Kimberley Twiner in 2019.
Melbourne Physical Theatre School is a place for high quality training taught by local, national and international maestros.
Kimberley is a Melbourne based performer, director and teacher.
She is a Fusetti, Bolton and Gaulier trained performer. In 2019 she studied THE PEDAGOGIC JOURNEY An Advanced Training in Movement Theatre under the tutelage of Giovanni Fusetti. This was a study into teaching the Lecoq lineage of training.
She is obsessed with many aspects of theatre training and believes that technical training and play based training hold hands with each other. Play without technique doesn't work, and technique without play doesn't work. Kimberley seeks to train people in a non-personal way, because theatre trangresses the personal, a performer must go beyond their own private experience.
Kimberley's expertise is found in devised physical comedy, clown, bouffon and character comedy. Her practice is explored through her award winning queer comedy troupe PO PO MO CO, award winning directing for The Travelling Sisters, devising contemporary clown with Fish & Twiner's Bait Shop and her bouffon troupe Physical and Political.
Past Workshops
Winter 2020
Outdoor Physical Theatre Conditioning Series
Summer 2020
From the Neutral Mask to Red Nose
The Pedagogy of Bouffon
Bouffon and the Ecstasy of Mocking
Spring 2020
Drag 101: Performing Skills
Character Charge Up
Creative Food
Resources for the eyes and ears that capture something about the incapturable.
Books
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
Listenings
Myths of the Family by James Hillman
The Creative Fire by Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The Politics of Feeling by James Hillman
Pagan Psychology by James Hillman
Pink Madness by James Hillman
The Blog
Thoughts, musings, and ruminations.
December 20, 2020In the aftermath of a collective melancholy, a physical and mental depression, an emotion which has united us all, it seems I have to fight even harder to justify what I do as a ‘joy-maker’ in my arts community. I am a performance maker whose practice is dedicated to laughter. Stating that so...September 17, 2020On Sunday 6th September my housemates and I, a crew of physical performers, decided that cutting laps of the block, pacing the backyard, and whining around the house wasn’t enough. The proposal was obvious: ‘Let’s put the 80’s lycra on and go out the front and do something’. With the pool noodle...Xylitol doesn't taste like sugar and it doesn't give you that high. The inexplicable desire of the live performer is to be among other people expressing their creativity. The emphasis here is on being among other people. For some reason we are drawn to this set up. To be in a community, to...
