Composition Strategies Workshop: How Theatre Can Help
Published: 11 May 2023
This workshop will explore basic composition strategies employed in theatre training - repetition, mirroring, speed, texture, reaction - and the theatre principles behind it - such as amplification, balance, equivalence, opposition and substitution - drawing from theatre and performance practitioners such as Barba, Brie and Grotowski.
Friday 23rd of June
10am - 11am
Shout Room, The Studio
Irene Ros, University of Edinburgh
Irene Ros is a post-dramatic mother of two, a theatre and performance practitioner and a researcher. She graduated from the MA Performance Design and Practice at Central Saint Martins (UAL, London) and is now a fourth-year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Strathclyde, looking at the collective memory of Italian right-wing terrorism (1969-1980) through a performative lens. Her work has been inspired in entirety by politics, gender equality matters and the media, with a focus on the results of globalisation on people and places. Her practice includes engaging with small communities and creating the conditions for empowerment. Her approach is always interdisciplinary and based on improvisation and serendipity.
About this Session
This workshop will explore basic composition strategies employed in theatre training - repetition, mirroring, speed, texture, reaction - and the theatre principles behind it - such as amplification, balance, equivalence, opposition and substitution - drawing from theatre and performance practitioners such as Barba, Brie and Grotowski.
The participants will be engaged in a two-hour physical theatre workshop. Experimenting in a collaborative environment, they will be encouraged to reflect on how theatre’s principles and strategies can be employed in academic writing and research.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session, participants will have been introduced to the basic principles of composition in theatre and engaged in a conversation about what strategies can be applied to academic as well as creative writing.
Who might be interested?
This workshop might interest doctoral researchers in the performative arts, exploring collaborative and participatory practices, who have a creative writing component in their research, or simply who are at the final stage of their research and are focussing on the writing.
Event contact: i.ros@sms.ed.ac.uk
First published: 11 May 2023
