Summer School
for Stockholm
DANCE MOVEMENT THEATRE
7 DAY COURSE
STOCKHOLM SWEDEN
21st
Celebration
EVENING DANCE
HAMILTON HOUSE
BRISTOL - UK
The Flower Drum
2019
4 DAY DANCE INTENSIVE
CORNWALL
UK
The River That Finds
Us
1 YEAR FOUNDATION COURSE
CORNWALL
UK
COURSE REPERTOIRE - ACTORS
Spiderflower's repertoire for actors offers a carefully structured program designed to provide a progressive and thorough training.
Basic, Intermediate and Advanced levels fall into areas of focus to cover:
Due to COVID-19, all events (unless listed on the CALENDAR), will now run on demand or can be booked to serve pre-existing groups via an organiser. Organisers wanting to book courses please contact Spiderflower via EMAIL for pricing and further details.
Spiderflower's work is often site specific and developed as a result of relationship with the land. All courses require an indoor studio, most with access to a natural setting. Where a specific environment is required (such as woodland, water etc) - please see this noted.
For more information about each body of work please contact Spiderflower.
BASICS
LENGTH
COURSE
VENUE
LEVEL
CLASSES
PRACTICE
Sessions cover the basics, plus follow the earth year to build into regular practice.
(3 hours)
ANY / ONLINE
Basic - Advanced
1 DAY
INTRODUCTION
Spiderflower's range of classes extend to offer deeper exploration with a full day introduction.
(8 hours)
ANY / ONLINE
Basic
MOVEMENT + CONNECTION
2 DAY
THE FINE ART OF CONNECTIVITY
Explores connection with creative sources within the natural world. Our work reflects on how working via this connective principle influences an actors presence and performance.
ANY
+ Natural Setting
Basic - Intermediate
5 DAY
THE FLOWER DRUM
Dedicated to the ancient relationship between rhythm, earth and body. Our focus moves to the language of gesture and pays particular attention to how expression resides inside rhythm and tempo.
ANY
+ Natural Setting
Basic -
Intermediate
VOICE
3 DAY - VARIABLE
TONGUES IN TREES
Works with the connected voice, with specific focus on sound and the spoken word. This set opens out the actors vocal potential as it introduces sound as a connective element.
*3 Days acts as a minimum time frame to cover this work, however this body of work is extensive and can be ongoing.
ANY
+ Woodland
Basic -Intermediate
CHARACTER + STORYTELLING
3 DAYS
STORYTELLING + THE AGE OF THINGS
An introduction to the process of characterisation and storytelling through Spiderflower's approach.
ANY
Basic - Intermediate
16 DAYS
BEING HUMAN:
(Or The Vulnerable Magician)
Foundation Course (Part 1):
4 x 4 Day Blocks
Rooted in the relationship between the elemental world and human being, this foundation course opens the space to explore the dynamics of creation as they weave between our humanness and the base, yet eternally creative substance of which we are made.
* Pre-requiste for Year Courses
ANY
+ Natural Setting
Basic - Intermediate
THEATRE CONSTRUCT
25 DAYS
THE RIVER THAT FINDS US
Foundation Course (Part 2):
5 x 5 Day Blocks
One of the most empowering and transformational courses in Spiderflower's repertoire, The River That Finds Us journeys into the shared language of emotion, the body and natural world.
With particular emphasis on how emotion travels through the physical body, we work to understand how landscape acts as a mirror to human expression.
The course presents actors with the opportunity to understand their emotional choreography as a creative force, whilst initiating a path of co-creativity between body and earth.
* Pre-requiste for Year Courses
UK
Various + by Water
Basic - Intermediate
20 DAYS
BONES OF THE OLD BOAT
Foundation Course (Part 3):
4 x 5 Day Blocks
Bones of the Old Boat examines the very roots of theatre, exploring its origin, our human need for it and potential it has in the extraordinary times we are living through.
Specific focus sits with an actors relationship with the audience. Paying attention to 'the collective' experience of performance, both from the perspective of the ensemble and from the audience, we explore how place and space can act as an important vehicle to carry the collective journey.
*Pre-requisite for Year Courses.
ANY
+ Natural Setting
Intermediate
YEAR COURSE
1 YEAR
THE ACTOR AS CONDUIT
1 Year Course
Working to combine all elements of shorter modules into a year course, THE ACTOR AS CONDUIT is for actors who want to work with continuum in order to deepen their knowledge in all areas of Spiderflower's approach, whilst specifically expanding their acting, voice and movement skills within a regular practice.
We work toward a final performance over the year, as central focus sits with steady repetition of Spiderflower's core principles and holding structures to bridge into theatre and performance technique.
In conjunction, we observe how dynamics within the natural world morph and change over the seasons, so opening space to explore the complex inter-relationship existent between body, human life-cycle and earth - which in turn adds significant gravity to how an actor might approach character, or the ensemble might present story.
*Pre-requisite for Accreditation.
ANY
+ Natural Setting
Intermediate - Advanced