What are our impulses? How can we learn to trust and follow them and perform with resonance? Using simple games and exercises, drawn from the worlds of Commedia and Clown, we will explore how movement, rhythm, silence and anticipation, can help bring moments of tenderness or ridiculousness. We will look at how to share these moments with others onstage, and how to share what we are feeling with the audience. This workshop is open to all. Come and play! Revel in your own uniqueness!

Dennis is a classically trained actor with a love for the physical and absurd, he has worked in large and small scale, Repertory and devised theatre, for over 30 years. He has performed in Boats, Trains, Cathedrals and even Theatres - with the likes of the RSC, Shakespeare's Globe, Told By an Idiot, Theatre O, Shifting Sands, and many more.

Using the body as a starting point I want to provide a space that allows participants to have their own creative input, create their own artwork and share their somatic life and experience. Workshops focus on how to document physicality, meaning and memory using, drawing and writing on paper. Looking at the body as an archive of movement; a document of movement material and experience, struck me as something I wish to examine more closely. My body embodies my dance and movement experiences as well as other life experiences. As part of the workshop we will discuss the various thoughts and ideas that arise from this stimulus and use this as our starting point. We will then explore this through various movement and drawing tasks.

Jacquie is a visual artist based near Bath. Previously a professional dancer, she has many years experience in both dance and acting performance in the UK and worldwide. During this part of her career she was a member of Mathew Bourne’s Adventures in Motion Pictures and performed in Nutcracker, Highland Fling and was in the original cast of Swan Lake and Cinderella. Jacquie has completed an MA in Fine Art at Bath Spa School of Art and Design at Bath Spa University. She is currently concerned with the body in space and how to create documentation of this. Her work includes video, mixed media pieces and installation and painting. More recently her focus has become directed towards landscape painting with strong references to her Scottish roots.