Enrich your drama or theatre studies classroom experience while fostering stronger creative outcomes for students.
The Devising Masterclass by Red Leap Theatre is a two day workshop – a fully catered evening of classroom learning and then a practical full day of physical activities.
Day 1: Presentation - Insight into Red Leap’s Process
Gain valuable insight into Red Leap’s devising process through an in-depth discussion unpacking our practice, featuring examples from our repertoire. Our key principles will be shared as we explore how to write impactful provocations and scaffold classes. Ultimately ensuring young performers succeed in their work and have a joyful and creatively empowering experience. Space for questions and sharing will be encouraged to address your specific lines of inquiry and pressure points.
Day 2: Practical Devising Masterclass
A highly practical workshop exploring Red Leap’s physical devising exercises. Using a variety of approaches to a source material, we will show how to get students out of their heads and quickly into building dynamic, visually arresting work. This introductory workshop will utilise Red Leap’s commitment to ensemble, collaboration, and the power of the collective imagination. You will be inspired to lead your students into this world of imaginative, visual storytelling with courage. Activities and follow-up resources mean you will take away practical exercises that you can directly apply to your own classrooms. Understanding the practical process will also deepen your understanding of how to help your students unpack and analyse devised performance.
The Read Leap Theatre Devising Method
Red Leap Theatre is an award winning, internationally acclaimed devising theatre company based in Aotearoa, New Zealand. They are dedicated to innovating theatrical form through the intersection of dynamic physicality, arresting imagery and original storytelling. They wholeheartedly believe in the strength of collaboration to celebrate the power of the imagination.
Join expert artist facilitators from the Red Leap company in an exploration of how their devising method can enhance your drama or theatre studies classroom and creative outcomes for students.
Red leap workshops explore a series of devising provocations:
- Make the impossible possible’ through the potential of stylising action and engaging the audiences' imaginations
- Build ensemble and supportive collaborative practice within the classroom through an emphasis on showing and feedback
- Work mostly without language, allowing students to think creatively around how to use space, sound, light, set and physicality to tell their story
- Employ fast devising time frames to get students out of their heads and onto their feet
- Explore how rules and restriction allow for creative freedom
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