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  • Upcoming events and workshops...

    2026 Workshops Calendar

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    Oct 23rd, 10am - 1pm

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    Fun with Fixed Point: Intro to Mime

    SOLD OUT IN 24 HOURS!

    Lead Teacher: Kimberley Twiner

    A pay-as-you-can physical theatre workshop dedicated to the stillness-movement dynamic. In the Lecoq work you hear the term 'fixed point' in relation to how one articulates oneself on stage. Come and spend some time sinking into this core principle. Also - it's going to fun.

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    Oct 30th, 10am - 1pm

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    Fun with Duos: Intro to Comic Duos

    SOLD OUT IN 24 HOURS!

    Lead Teacher: Kimberley Twiner

    A pay-as-you-can workshop all about duos! This workshop will present some physical theatre principles that help glue a comic duo together. We will draw on the physical comedy found within Commedia dell'Arte and Clown to help us play in partnership with each other.

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    Nov 2nd - 6th

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

    5 places left!

    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

    SOLD OUT!

    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

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    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.

  • Summer 2027

    Giovanni Fusetti Summer Workshops 2027

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    Jan 18th - 22nd, 2027

    Psychodrama
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    FAMIGLIA DELL’ ARTE

    Exploring Family Stories, Roles, Dynamics, Patterns and Scripts through Psychodrama
    and Physical Theatre


    Lead Facilitators: Zsófi Kigyóssy and Giovanni Fusetti

    Welcome to a highly experiential and playful group of personal development in which the Psychodrama Approach and Physical Theatre will dance together to provide a unique experience of emotional awareness and embodied spontaneity.

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    Feb 8th - Mar 7th, 2027

    Bouffon Intensive

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    Lead Teacher: Giovanni Fusetti

    Produced by Kimberley Twiner

    Four weeks in the world of mocking and grotesque theatre. A radical call for anyone who wishes to develop their satirical mind and body and feed their poetic world with the irresistible folly of the ecstasy of mocking.

    The Bouffons are buzzing with jubilation
    ready to mock the exquisite insanity of human race

    It’s Time for Satyric Timing!

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    Mar 15th - 18th, 2027

    Psychodrama

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    BRING YOUR OWN PSYCHE

    An advanced Psychodrama and Physical Theatre workshop “a la carte”

    Lead Facilitators: Zsófi Kigyóssy and Giovanni Fusetti

    This workshop is the natural evolution of the 2025-26 sessions and is open to those who, having already experienced the approach of integrating Psychodrama and Physical Theatre, want to deepen their quest bringing some specific themes of their life that they want to explore with these tools.

  • The Blog

    Thoughts, musings and ruminations written by Kimberley Twiner.

    November 27, 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...
    January 21, 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...