This workshop is for emerging artists who want to make performance work that doesn’t sit in one genre.
You might be a designer, poet, composer, lyricist, singer, playwright, performer, artist, director, live artist, theatre maker, choreographer, dancer or, you may not be any of the above. There are no rules.
We’ll be generating work through different disciplines and attempting to actively push them together and against each other. You’ll be introduced to layering multiple components together and asked to critique what happens dramaturgically for an audience when you do.
I’ll be giving you practical tools to: generate complicated movement work simply; write and edit your own experimental poetry and text; play with design materials; devise work from unexpected places and images; and build and construct performance through the layering of these elements in a collaborative way. If your thing is music, there will be the opportunity to join Cameron Mackintosh award winning composer and sound designer Ben Osborn as he collaborates with you to score the workshop live and in response to the room.
Lead facilitator Maisie Newman is an interdisciplinary performance director, choreographer, and writer for poetry, opera and theatre. She makes work in lots of different ways and doesn’t ever really know where to place her practice. Maisie recently directed and adapted Bakkhai for the National Youth Theatre, choreographed Candide for Scottish Opera and won an Eric Gregory Award for her collection of poetry ‘Our Names Were Oil’. She was the Bryan Forbes trainee director at National Youth Theatre in 2023, did a Fine Art MFA and was on the Made in Bristol training programme at Bristol Old Vic in 2014. She was born and raised in Easton in Bristol.
This workshop is funded by Arts Council England.
Dates & Times
- 1:00pm
