Melbourne Physical Theatre School

Melbourne Physical Theatre School was officially started by Kimberley Twiner in 2019. It is a place for high quality training in the Lecoq lineage, taught by local, national and international maestros. Kimberley's main collaborating teacher is Giovanni Fusetti and Beth Twentyman from Melbourne Masks.

Kimberley is a Melbourne based performer, director and teacher. She is a Fusetti, Bolton and Gaulier trained performer and she is an award-winning performer in her own right. 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 theatre within the Lecoq lineage of mime and movement training. Kimberley has accumulated 600+ hours as pedagogic assistant to Giovanni Fusetti. She is dedicated to an ethical pedagogic method that delivers quality feedback to students. As a queer feminist she firmly rejects any pedagogies (such as the Gaulier style) that relies on shame or humilation to interact with students.

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. Mask, mime and movement training is her core passions to move towards a dynamic theatre.

Her theatre making practice spans 15 years. Kimberley's expertise is found in devised physical comedy, clown, bouffon and character comedy. Her practice is ensemble powered, devised and deeply collaborative. Her current working ensembles are PO PO MO CO, The Beaks, Fish & Twiner's Bait Shop, The Bouffonery, The Wholesome Hour and Brunswick East Entertainment Festival. In her spare time Kimberley studies Gestalt Psychotherapy and the Female Trickster.