Platform CourseMovement for Actors & Directors
Questors AcademyLooking to enhance and develop your stage presence?
Movement for Actors & Directors Course will introduce you to:
Movement for Actors and Directors is a short course for anyone interested in developing their physical skills and using movement in theatrical contexts as either a performer or director. We will explore different ways in which to use movement and physical theatre to create meaning, tell stories and develop characters, drawing from the work of practitioners such as Anne Bogart and Tina Landau's Viewpoints, Lecoq's levels of tensions, Laban's efforts and Stanislavski's circles of attention.
Please note this is not a dance or singing class but will involve moving around the space so please wear clothes and footwear you feel comfortable moving in and participants are encouraged to bring any instruments they play to the sessions.
Who teaches this course?
Sara Page is a performer and movement director with 10 years of experience in collaborative theatre-making and theatre facilitation with people of all ages. She has a classical background and became interested in different movement styles at the University of Birmingham where she studied French and Drama and formed Trip the Light, a contemporary dance and physical theatre company. Sara then completed her Masters in Advanced Theatre Practice at The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama before performing and working on theatre-based projects in London, Birmingham, New York, Lithuania and Bulgaria as well as various theatre festivals across the UK.
Past performance and movement direction work includes: Glory of the Garden (2023), Virelogne (2020), Oh Heroine How I Love You! (2019), Six Bad Poets (2019), Beauty & the Beast (2019), The Nightingale and the Rose (2018), Axolotl (2018), The Fun Club Presents... (2017) and The Sun Shining On Her Hands (2016).
At Questors, Sara has worked on the choreography and movement direction for Arcadia, King Arthur and the Twelfth Knight, Hairspray Jr, Pride & Prejudice, King Charles III, Nell Gwynn, Robin Hood, Ariadne & the Monsters, When the Rain Stops Falling, The Country Wife, Bugsy Malone, Not Goodbye, Cinderella and 4.48 Psychosis as well as the QYT musical theatre summer schools.
When is this course?
Saturday 8th and Saturday 15th February 2025
Time: 3.15pm - 5.15pm
Fees:
Standard £40
Season pass holders £30
Fees payable in advance
Any Season Pass discounts will be automatically calculated after log in
Applications
There is no audition required. The course is available to those aged 18 and over.
