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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 2021
Abbotsford Convent Pivot Residency Project
Autumn 2021
Bouffon - 2 Day Workshop
Clown Play - 2 Day Workshop
Flock Fit in the Park Series
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
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
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...
