APA Masterclass Programme

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Saturday 18 May, 10am-5pm The Lemon Tree Studio This day long adventure will offer artists the opportunity to reflect on their practise by becoming immersed in discussion, debate and the creation of new ideas. The artist who chooses to work within a community or educational context must by highly responsible and considerate to the world around them. The creation of new work occurs through collaboration with individuals and communities that have potentially been isolated from artistic or creative processes. How then, as artists, do we continuously push boundaries to ensure our work is contemporary and relevant to the people we collaborate with? This workshop will explore issues connected to: the role of the artist within community settings, being innovative through collaboration, risk taking with groups, issues of ownership, encouraging leadership within projects, and where ideas come from.

Paul is a freelance artist and has over 15 years experience of working in the cultural sector as a theatre director, project manager, lecturer, fundraiser and arts practitioner. Paul studied acting and performance at Motherwell College before completing a BA (Hons) in Community Arts at Strathclyde University. His passion is to instigate innovative creative projects that work in partnership with inspirational artists and inspiring communities.

International Partnerships panel discussion Thursday 30 May, 7pm–9pm The Lemon Tree Lounge Price: FREE A panel will be made up of members of APA Creative Learning staff and other professionals who are experienced in setting up and funding international partnership projects. There will be an open discussion exploring best practice and potentially exploring ways for artists in Aberdeen to more closely work together to create exciting and ambitious projects of their own!

We ask that for all workshops participants wear loose comfortable clothing You can book your place for any of the above workshops at Aberdeen Box Office on (01224) 641122, online at boxofficeaberdeen.com or in person at any of our venues, His Majesty’s Theatre, Music Hall or The Lemon Tree.

NURTURING and DEVELOPING CREATIVE TALENT in the NORTH EAST

Photo: Lucy Cullen

Creative Adventures with Communities

Aberdeen Performing Arts is a charity registered in Scotland. No: SCO33733

Paul Gorman

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Trestle Theatre Co Physical and Mask Theatre British Academy of Stage and Sunday 10 March, 10am–4pm Screen Combat Unarmed combat His Majesty’s Theatre, studio

Photo: Lucy Cullen

Masterclass Programme With generous support from Aberdeen City Council’s Cultural Grants we are able to provide cultural professionals in Aberdeen this masterclass programme.

It features companies and artists from across the UK who are specialists in their field and will offer a diverse training programme to strengthen and develop your creative tool kit. Workshops are being offered at a generously subsidised rate of £25 per session – all five sessions can be booked for only £100. Places are limited so early booking is recommended.

Please note: This programme is designed for established arts practitioners, as well as those in training, teachers and students who are undertaking higher education in theatre or community arts.

Frantic Assembly Devising and Physicality Sunday 10 February, 10am-5pm His Majesty’s Theatre, studio Cost: £25

This workshop will give participants an insight into how Frantic Assembly creates new work and provides them with skills to embark on their own devised projects.

The workshop will include: • A thorough warm up (approx 30 mins) • Team building and trust exercises • Creative tasks and devising processes • A cool down, reflection and questions

Photo: Alex Turner

Frantic Assembly creates thrilling, energetic and unforgettable theatre. The company attracts new and young audiences with work that reflects contemporary culture. Vivid and dynamic, Frantic Assembly’s unique physical style combines movement, design, music and text.

Frantic Assembly has toured widely throughout the UK, building its reputation as one of the country’s most exciting companies. Internationally Frantic Assembly has performed, created and collaborated in 30 different countries.

Outcomes: • Promoting physical confidence and encourage participants to look beyond self perceived limitations within a fun, energetic and safe environment.

• Instructing participants on the various devising processes used by Frantic Assembly when working collaboratively to produce multi disciplined performance.

• Addressing key skills required for practitioners to enhance their abilities in the areas of performance, movement, directing and critical analysis.

Trestle is a mask and physical theatre company based in St Albans, at Trestle Arts Base. Participatory and performance work for 11 to 25 year-olds is Trestle’s priority: Trestle’s mission is to deliver cross art form collaborative experiences that connect with young people, inspiring them to use their creativity to live better lives. Trestle has been making innovative and inspirational physical storytelling theatre since 1981. For 25 years, they worked mainly with full masks. Over the past 5 years, they have collaborated with UK and international artists to explore what happens when Trestle unmasks and uses voice, text, and dance.

This master class for arts professionals, teachers and workshop leaders provides a unique opportunity to develop performance and teaching skills in mask theatre using Trestle’s playful full masks and dynamic new half masks.

This fun, accessible and highly effective workshop will help strengthen your practice of using masks as a tool for both theatre and social development. The day consists of experiencing exercises and learning techniques to develop physical awareness, vocal dexterity, mask performance and creative devising. “…...a hugely beneficial and transformative experience” National Youth Council of Ireland, 2012 For details about our full workshop programme for teachers and students visit: www.trestle.org.uk/participate/workshops e: takingpart@trestle.org.uk t: 01727 850950 To order Trestle Mask Sets please visit: www.trestle.org.uk/mask-shop or email: masks@trestle.org.uk with details.

Follow us on Twitter@trestletheatre Like us on Facebook.com/TrestleTheatre

Saturday 16 March, 10am-5pm The Lemon Tree The British Academy of Stage & Screen Combat was founded in 1993 with the aim of improving the standards of safety, quality and training of stage combat and promoting a unified code of practice for the training, teaching and assessing of stage combat within the United Kingdom.

All BASSC teachers have undergone a rigorous training programme and the examining members of the BASSC are highly qualified, experienced professionals with a tradition of working in theatre, television and film productions such as Alexander, Troy, Stardust, Closer, The Last Legion and The Golden Compass Instructor Janet Lawson trained and is a Certified Teacher with the BASSC. She taught at the British National Stage Combat Workshop 2005 - 2007 and was its Co-ordinator 2008 - 2010. She has led workshops in the UK, Germany, USA and runs The Claymore Workshop in Scotland. Janet was the Stage Combat Teacher at Stratford Circus in East London until 2010 and has taught at the City Lit and Central School of Speech and Drama. She serves as Secretary on the BASSC Executive Committee and is the Editor of its newsletter “Fighting Talk” and Chair of the Teacher Review Board.

Jacquie Crago Voice and Text Sunday 28 April, 10am-5pm His Majesty’s Theatre, studio Jacquie Crago started her career as a lecturer in the Voice and Speech department of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RSAMD at that time).

Subsequently, after a period of full time acting and directing, she was appointed Head of Voice at the Oxford School of Drama. She now regularly works as a member of the Voice and Text department at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford and is the resident Voice and Dialect coach on the highly successful English National Theatre production of War Horse.

Jacquie is currently working as voice and text coach on the National’s touring production of One Man Two Guvnors. She also leads Voice/Acting workshops and projects in Universities and Drama Schools. Most recently with the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, CoOpera and The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Masterclass Programme 4pp:Layout 1 13/12/2012 10:54 Page 2

Trestle Theatre Co Physical and Mask Theatre British Academy of Stage and Sunday 10 March, 10am–4pm Screen Combat Unarmed combat His Majesty’s Theatre, studio

Photo: Lucy Cullen

Masterclass Programme With generous support from Aberdeen City Council’s Cultural Grants we are able to provide cultural professionals in Aberdeen this masterclass programme.

It features companies and artists from across the UK who are specialists in their field and will offer a diverse training programme to strengthen and develop your creative tool kit. Workshops are being offered at a generously subsidised rate of £25 per session – all five sessions can be booked for only £100. Places are limited so early booking is recommended.

Please note: This programme is designed for established arts practitioners, as well as those in training, teachers and students who are undertaking higher education in theatre or community arts.

Frantic Assembly Devising and Physicality Sunday 10 February, 10am-5pm His Majesty’s Theatre, studio Cost: £25

This workshop will give participants an insight into how Frantic Assembly creates new work and provides them with skills to embark on their own devised projects.

The workshop will include: • A thorough warm up (approx 30 mins) • Team building and trust exercises • Creative tasks and devising processes • A cool down, reflection and questions

Photo: Alex Turner

Frantic Assembly creates thrilling, energetic and unforgettable theatre. The company attracts new and young audiences with work that reflects contemporary culture. Vivid and dynamic, Frantic Assembly’s unique physical style combines movement, design, music and text.

Frantic Assembly has toured widely throughout the UK, building its reputation as one of the country’s most exciting companies. Internationally Frantic Assembly has performed, created and collaborated in 30 different countries.

Outcomes: • Promoting physical confidence and encourage participants to look beyond self perceived limitations within a fun, energetic and safe environment.

• Instructing participants on the various devising processes used by Frantic Assembly when working collaboratively to produce multi disciplined performance.

• Addressing key skills required for practitioners to enhance their abilities in the areas of performance, movement, directing and critical analysis.

Trestle is a mask and physical theatre company based in St Albans, at Trestle Arts Base. Participatory and performance work for 11 to 25 year-olds is Trestle’s priority: Trestle’s mission is to deliver cross art form collaborative experiences that connect with young people, inspiring them to use their creativity to live better lives. Trestle has been making innovative and inspirational physical storytelling theatre since 1981. For 25 years, they worked mainly with full masks. Over the past 5 years, they have collaborated with UK and international artists to explore what happens when Trestle unmasks and uses voice, text, and dance.

This master class for arts professionals, teachers and workshop leaders provides a unique opportunity to develop performance and teaching skills in mask theatre using Trestle’s playful full masks and dynamic new half masks.

This fun, accessible and highly effective workshop will help strengthen your practice of using masks as a tool for both theatre and social development. The day consists of experiencing exercises and learning techniques to develop physical awareness, vocal dexterity, mask performance and creative devising. “…...a hugely beneficial and transformative experience” National Youth Council of Ireland, 2012 For details about our full workshop programme for teachers and students visit: www.trestle.org.uk/participate/workshops e: takingpart@trestle.org.uk t: 01727 850950 To order Trestle Mask Sets please visit: www.trestle.org.uk/mask-shop or email: masks@trestle.org.uk with details.

Follow us on Twitter@trestletheatre Like us on Facebook.com/TrestleTheatre

Saturday 16 March, 10am-5pm The Lemon Tree The British Academy of Stage & Screen Combat was founded in 1993 with the aim of improving the standards of safety, quality and training of stage combat and promoting a unified code of practice for the training, teaching and assessing of stage combat within the United Kingdom.

All BASSC teachers have undergone a rigorous training programme and the examining members of the BASSC are highly qualified, experienced professionals with a tradition of working in theatre, television and film productions such as Alexander, Troy, Stardust, Closer, The Last Legion and The Golden Compass Instructor Janet Lawson trained and is a Certified Teacher with the BASSC. She taught at the British National Stage Combat Workshop 2005 - 2007 and was its Co-ordinator 2008 - 2010. She has led workshops in the UK, Germany, USA and runs The Claymore Workshop in Scotland. Janet was the Stage Combat Teacher at Stratford Circus in East London until 2010 and has taught at the City Lit and Central School of Speech and Drama. She serves as Secretary on the BASSC Executive Committee and is the Editor of its newsletter “Fighting Talk” and Chair of the Teacher Review Board.

Jacquie Crago Voice and Text Sunday 28 April, 10am-5pm His Majesty’s Theatre, studio Jacquie Crago started her career as a lecturer in the Voice and Speech department of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RSAMD at that time).

Subsequently, after a period of full time acting and directing, she was appointed Head of Voice at the Oxford School of Drama. She now regularly works as a member of the Voice and Text department at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford and is the resident Voice and Dialect coach on the highly successful English National Theatre production of War Horse.

Jacquie is currently working as voice and text coach on the National’s touring production of One Man Two Guvnors. She also leads Voice/Acting workshops and projects in Universities and Drama Schools. Most recently with the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, CoOpera and The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Masterclass Programme 4pp:Layout 1 13/12/2012 10:54 Page 1

Saturday 18 May, 10am-5pm The Lemon Tree Studio This day long adventure will offer artists the opportunity to reflect on their practise by becoming immersed in discussion, debate and the creation of new ideas. The artist who chooses to work within a community or educational context must by highly responsible and considerate to the world around them. The creation of new work occurs through collaboration with individuals and communities that have potentially been isolated from artistic or creative processes. How then, as artists, do we continuously push boundaries to ensure our work is contemporary and relevant to the people we collaborate with? This workshop will explore issues connected to: the role of the artist within community settings, being innovative through collaboration, risk taking with groups, issues of ownership, encouraging leadership within projects, and where ideas come from.

Paul is a freelance artist and has over 15 years experience of working in the cultural sector as a theatre director, project manager, lecturer, fundraiser and arts practitioner. Paul studied acting and performance at Motherwell College before completing a BA (Hons) in Community Arts at Strathclyde University. His passion is to instigate innovative creative projects that work in partnership with inspirational artists and inspiring communities.

International Partnerships panel discussion Thursday 30 May, 7pm–9pm The Lemon Tree Lounge Price: FREE A panel will be made up of members of APA Creative Learning staff and other professionals who are experienced in setting up and funding international partnership projects. There will be an open discussion exploring best practice and potentially exploring ways for artists in Aberdeen to more closely work together to create exciting and ambitious projects of their own!

We ask that for all workshops participants wear loose comfortable clothing You can book your place for any of the above workshops at Aberdeen Box Office on (01224) 641122, online at boxofficeaberdeen.com or in person at any of our venues, His Majesty’s Theatre, Music Hall or The Lemon Tree.

NURTURING and DEVELOPING CREATIVE TALENT in the NORTH EAST

Photo: Lucy Cullen

Creative Adventures with Communities

Aberdeen Performing Arts is a charity registered in Scotland. No: SCO33733

Paul Gorman