Education & Workshops

The company has a commitment to widening access to physical theatre through its education and audience development.

Momentum’s Education work promotes participation in the arts as a stimulating and creative pursuit within schools. Momentum encourages students and audiences to develop their own interests and to experience personal growth through the work of the company.

Momentum offer a number of set workshops throughout the year, as well as being able to tailor make workshops to suit your specific needs.

The workshops are two hours-one day in length, the size, age group and ability are flexible. The workshops can be created in order to work with disabled participants/groups.

Momentum workshops always aim to promote the confidence of the performer/ student as well as improving their physical capabilities and teaching new skills which can be applied to their own work.

Set Workshops:

Creating Tmesis

How two people can move as one. A workshop specifically based around the physical devising methods we used to create the show. We look at: how two people can move as one, using exercises, partner work and basic acrobatics which culminates in creating choreographed movement sequences.

Acrobatics

This workshop introduces students to the basics of acrobatics, teaching a series of lifts and moves and using what they have learnt to create movement sequences.

Physical/movement Theatre

This workshop introduces powerful movement training and exercises for body awareness, movement techniques,-basic acrobatics, teaching a series of lifts and moves and using what they have learnt to create movement sequences. It is based around using non-textual communication to tell a narrative.

Improvisation/ Devising

This workshop looks at physical methods in devising theatre, how improvisation can be used to create material and physical starting points for creating characters.

Residencies/ Performance Project

Momentum can also come and work with your organisation in the form of a residency, for 1 day a 2 weeks.

The company can devise a piece with the students, which can then be performed at the end of the project; alongside this the company can offer training in physical theatre.

The company, or the organisation can choose the theme of the project; we can also devise projects, which assist the school/ college curriculum.