
Melbourne Physical Theatre School
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Melbourne Physical Theatre School
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Melbourne Physical Theatre School

Apply now for Nov + Dec 2026 workshops!
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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Upcoming events and workshops...
2026 Workshops Calendar

Nov 2nd - 6th
Emotions as Action: From Neutral, to Nature, to Melodrama
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.

Nov 9th -13th
Red Nose Clown: The Somatic Clown Journey
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.

Nov 30th - Dec 4th
Fantastic Bouffons: Fairytales and Extreme Characters
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.
The Blog
Thoughts, musings and ruminations written by Kimberley Twiner.
27. November 2025When 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...21. Januar 2025 · Bouffon,Lecoq,Physical Theatre,MockeryBouffon 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...Creative Food
Resources for the eyes and ears that capture something about the incapturable.
Books
Pedagogic Reflections on Via Negativa an article by Giovanni Fusetti
Rabelais and his World by Mikhail Bakhtin
Copeau: Texts on Theatre by Jacques Copeau
The Archetypal Artist by Mary Antonia Wood <--- really good!
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



