These are some of the exercises we use with professional makers, and in workshops with young people. They’re free to use: adapt them, and tell us how it went.
Workshops
Our makers bring these exercises into workshops at schools, academies and for other group settings. They’ve worked with people aged 12 to 60+ at: Central School of Ballet (London), the Dutch National Ballet Academy, the New Audiences and Innovative Practice master’s at the Royal Conservatoire (The Hague), Kunsten Dialoog in Amsterdam West, Dutch National Opera & Ballet, and internationally. These workshops develop not only the participants but the makers too, through the exchange of perspectives.
“…students felt at ease with each other and built a strong foundation to further build their community and movement work on.” Emelie Helsen, Central School of Ballet
Interested in a workshop? info@houseofmakers.nl
Coming next
With our next projects we’ll give workshops in writing, movement, and music at OBA and Synestheet. Exercises from those processes will appear here.
Complex-catch
A team building exercise
Melting
Warming-up / trust / awareness
About these resources
Everything here is free to use in your own rehearsals, classes and workshops. If you share a resource or build on it, please credit House of Makers and the people named on it.
Theatre exercises travel from room to room, and many of ours have grown out of, or overlap with, other people’s work. We always do our best to credit and reference our sources. If you feel we’ve missed a credit, please get in touch and we’ll gladly look into it.
Tried something from this page? We’d love to hear how it went: info@houseofmakers.nl