What you'll learn:

During this one-day course you'll be introduced to The Meisner Technique, including the famous 'repetition' exercise and our unique way of approaching the technique.

You'll explore your acting instincts by tuning into yourself as a human, connection and what gets in the way of you connecting. You'll learn to observe and respond and take the first steps towards what Meisner calls 'living truthfully'.

You will then be eligible to continue your training with us on exclusive courses!

Who'll train you:

40/40 is an inspiring, insightful and moving celebration of Katherina Radeva’s 40 years as a woman, a migrant and an artist. Claiming space on a dance floor for one, she writes stories of her past, present and future, in speech, in electrical tape and in movement.

From the little girl dancing at her parents’ student parties, to the teenage rhythm gymnast who was body-shamed, to the creative who refuses to be categorised we see a choreography of all the joys and sorrows of 40 years.

Being different is a complicated business. It can be exciting, distressing, temporary, permanent, liberating, dangerous, painful, a cause for celebration. It’s about bodies and language, memories and labels, perceptions and assumptions, acceptance and resistance.

Join DAR, a queer, neurodivergent, curious, middle-aged Talking Heads fanatic, to consider some tricky questions around the subjects of difference, identity, positioning, labelling and belonging.

What does it feel like to perform your ageing body? How are women’s bodies read as they age?  What is the relationship between older performer and audience? Why be seen?

In this panel talk Gillian Dyson is joined by Funmi Adewole Elliott and Susan Kempster as they ponder the queering of the body through the ageing process and ask how we redefine our femininity as expectations of women shift in age.

What makes us human?   
How does sound connect us? 
What keeps us going? 
And what happens when we stop? 

Join Kyra Norman for a practical workshop inspired by her latest work, Going, Going, made in collaboration with composer Barnaby Taylor, and a community of dancers aged 20 – 70 from Cornwall. 

How To Change The World By Doing Nothing explores our experience and understanding of time, how time is spent, who controls it, and how we would spend it if we could choose. It explores radical notions of rest, doing less and ‘wasting time’.

Co-created by Fevered Sleep and Yorkshire Dance’s Company of People, How To Change The World By Doing Nothing is a durational performance installation bringing together an intergenerational community from Leeds.

This work is part of Fevered Sleep’s ongoing research and development process for their new show.