Our brand of intuitive and responsive performance training stemmed from questions around how the body exists in space and how through breath we can activate the body and bring responsiveness to the live theatre performance. Our training has been used to develop body, breath and voice across acting, musical theatre and classical singing training. Institutions such as The Federation University Ballarat, the Victorian College of the Arts and the National Theatre Drama School have welcomed this training in their programs.
Our particular brand of training originated from a desire to bring to bare exquisite, precise and responsive performance in performance practice of the Present Tense Ensemble. We have broadened their vision to now include other artists and establish the training in its own right. Beginning in 2010 with just four artists, now over 150 artists have participated in training.
Training is the cornerstone of our practice and ensemble and is the key to developing a mature, complex and responsive language within our ensemble. Our continue to be in dialogue around training and it’s importance in ongoing development and thinking.
Our intuitive and responsive training can also form the basis for creation of new work – by activating the bodies in space and the incorporation of music.