Melbourne Physical Theatre School
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This is a simple website to connect you to intense physical theatre training. Join the family of Melbourne performers who want to get gritty with their theatre.
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About
Melbourne Physical Theatre School was officially started by Kimberley Twiner in 2019. It 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 within the Lecoq lineage of mime and movement training.
Kimberley 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 The Bouffonery.
For more on Kimberley click here.
Past Workshops
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
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 31, 2022I dare you to make your theatre work radically theatrical. I dare you to return to the roots of this dance. I dare you to stop looking for new ideas. I dare you to play fiercely with old ideas. I dare you to imitate your themes. I dare you to use your body first. I dare you to study...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...More PostsMailing List
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