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CREATIVE PLAYGROUND
WELCOME TO BATH'S
Bath’s Creative Playground is a weekly workshop for anyone curious about exploring physicality, storytelling, improvisation and collaboration, inviting you to reconnect with your creative practice and connect with the artistic community.
Oldfield Park Theatre Workshops, Bath
Mondays, 6:30-8pm
WHO IS THIS SPACE FOR?
Bath’s Creative Playground is a weekly workshop for anyone curious about exploring physicality, storytelling, improvisation and collaboration, inviting you to reconnect with your creative practice and connect with the artistic community.
This is an ideal space for a variety of creatives. For dancers to stay active and engage with theatre; for actors to deepen their movement quality and physical theatre practice; and for other multidisciplinary artists to collaborate.
For any creatives who feel they might be out of touch with their craft and want to reconnect with their artistic practice, this is a supportive, open space where vulnerability is welcome.
If you are a writer, musician, photographer, or visual artist and you’d like to join part of the session as a way to observe, document, or creatively respond to movement and the physical space, please do come along.This space is open to experimentation and cross-disciplinary connections.
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A SPACE TO EXPLORE MOVEMENT, STORYTELLING, COLLABORATION, IDEAS AND CONNECTION
WHAT CAN I EXPECT?
Each session includes physical exploration, collaborative exercises, improvisation and creative tasks. We work from images, text, music, scripts, characters, and partner or group collaboration. There is no right way; the focus is on enjoyment, personal exploration and playfulness.
The atmosphere is friendly and supportive. People join from different creative backgrounds and experience. Every week is a little different, but the intention stays the same. It is a space to play, move, feel more connected others, and develop your own and other creative approaches.
Come move, play, and connect.
START YOUR WEEK ACTIVATING YOUR CREATIVE ENERGY
WHO IS FACILITATING
THIS SPACE?
Bath’s Creative Playground is primarily facilitated by Xavi De Santos.
Guest artists working across dance, theatre, creative writing, circus, and interdisciplinary performance practices are also invited each month to bring their own tools and creative approaches into the space.
LEAD FACILITATOR
& ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Hey, it's me – Xavi De Santos – a Bath-based freelance movement practitioner.
My work blends choreography and theatre, and within my interdisciplinary creative practice, I have created for, and with dancers, actors, and other creatives – blurring the lines between disciplines, focusing on the theatricalisation of the moving body.
My professional training started at Balleteatro in my hometown, Porto, Portugal, where I studied physical theatre before moving to the UK to complete a BA in Contemporary Dance at Bath Spa University. Most recently, I completed a research Master’s in Performance Practice at Middlesex University, London, which allowed me to begin my practice-as-research journey, specifically focusing on improvisation and devising strategies.
Over the last decade, alongside facilitating for Bath Spa University as an associate lecturer for the Dance and Acting degree, for dance schools and community groups in Bath and Bristol, I have also been devising and performing with Dust Ensemble, as well as for the company I co-founded, AllouAqui Dance Theatre.
For more info about my work, you can visit www.xavierdesantos.com
VENUE & OTHER DETAILS
Mondays, 6:30-8pm
Oldfield Park Theatre Workshops
Westmoreland Station Road, BA2 3HQ
Free parking available at or near the venue.
Make sure to bring water and wear comfortable sportswear.
NEW PAYMENT OPTIONS
First session is free!
This excludes Guest Artists sessions. When booking these, you can still also join us for your free session with our lead facilitator, Xavi De Santos, any other time.
Option 1 | One-off sessions
Applicable to all sessions.
£10 for General Creatives
£8 for Bristol Creatives (or non-Bath residents)
£8 for Graduates (up to 1yr after graduating)
£5 for University Students
Option 2 | Monthly subscription
Includes Guest Artist sessions.
£8 for General Creatives
£6 for Bristol Creatives (or non-Bath residents)
£6 for Graduates (up to a year after graduating)
£4 for University Students
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SHARE IT WITH THEM AND BRING THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER
GOT A QUESTION?
STILL HAVE QUESTIONS?
Get in touch down below.
You can also email me directly at contact@xavierdesantos.com
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