What’s On

A sequence of Saturday monthly workshops

with Sarah Kane

These one-day workshops provide an opportunity to explore practically the core elements of the truly artistic acting techniques developed by Russian actor Michael Chekhov in the middle of the twentieth century. Chekhov’s approach aims to inspire and empower actors for their future work by building a living and sensitive bridge between the movement and imagination of an actor and the character to be played.

Although the workshops are designed as a series and build from one to the next, each workshop is an entirety in itself and can be taken individually.

Imagination is the real, eternal world, of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

William Blake

Saturday 11 January 10am - 5.30pm ~ The Actor’s Imagination
To start the new year, this workshop will explore what imagination is and how an artist can engage with, develop and strengthen it in his or her creative work.

Saturday 22 February 10am - 5.30pm ~ Exploring the Psycho-Physical Basics
What is a gesture? And how can gestures make us more creative? Starting with movement this workshop will explore what are called archetypal gestures as tools to express a character’s inner impulses and bring the character to life.

Saturday 8 March 10am - 5.30pm ~ Gesture and a Character’s Objective: The Psychological Gesture
From archetypal gestures we will move on to individual gestures and develop them in relation to text to express the embodied essence of a character, what Chekhov calls the psychological gesture.

Saturday 12 April 10am - 5.30pm ~ Individualising Psychological Gestures: Qualities
The third session on gesture will investigate the final step in the process of individualisation and explore how qualities can enhance and refine any gesture, making them truly specific.

Please bring clothes and shoes suitable for the Chekhov workshops as a well as a piece of text such as a monologue or poem known by heart, so that it can be used in the exploration in practice of any aspect of the techniques.

Workshop Fees:

1 workshop day: £55

4 workshops: £195 (Bookable on the first date)

To book: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/e-dmmzoq

Sarah Kane trained in Steiner’s approach to speech and voice, then Chekhov’s approach to acting with many of his original students. She now integrates them in her teaching, directing and performing, which takes place internationally.

TO FOLLOW: CREATING CHARACTER

April – July 2025

A sequence of Sunday monthly workshops

with Sarah Kane

These one-day workshops provide an opportunity to explore practically the core elements of the artistic speech techniques developed by Rudolf Steiner at the beginning of the twentieth century. The approach aims to bring what an actor speaks to life by exploring where we might find the life of words themselves. The approach can inspire and empower actors for their work by building a living and sensitive bridge between an actor’s inner life and the words a character speaks.

Although the workshops are designed as a series and one builds on to the previous one, each workshop is an entirety in itself and can be taken individually.

Sunday 12 January 10.00 - 5.30pm ~ The Role Of The Imagination In An Actor’s Speech

Speech that is alive and embodied is hard to contemplate without engaging the actor’s imagination. We will explore the tools Steiner proposes to use to connect inner pictures with speaking.

Sunday 23 February 10am - 5.30pm ~ Steiner’s Speech Gestures

The art of speaking was close to Steiner’s heart and the speech gestures open a new world, a new way of approaching speech for the actor, connected most emphatically with movement. All the following elements explored in the coming workshops build on these foundations.

Sunday 9 March 10 am – 5.30pm ~ Sounds, Syllables, Words As Gesture

Steiner’s approach offers tools to give life and substance to words that go beyond their meaning: how can gestures contribute to that life, so that they acquire colour, dynamic and rhythm?

Sunday 27 April 10am – 5.30pm ~ Exploring The Individuality of A Character’s Voice

Working with both sound and gesture the workshop will investigate how to create the vocal individuality of the character.

Please bring clothes and shoes suitable for the Chekhov workshops as a well as a piece of text such as a monologue or poem known by heart, so that it can be used in the exploration in practice of any aspect of the techniques.

Workshop Fees:

1 workshop day: £55

4 workshops: £195 (Bookable on the first date)

To book: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/rudolf-steiner-house/e-kozydd

Sarah Kane trained in Steiner’s approach to speech and voice, then Chekhov’s approach to acting with many of his original students. She now integrates them in her teaching, directing and performing, which takes place internationally.

TO FOLLOW: CREATING A CHARACTER IN VOICE AND SPEECH

April – July 2025

with Sue Davies

Come and join us for a full day’s workshop gently exploring many of the faces of grief. Grief and loss are part of life: we all face losing people and things we care about. The day will offer therapeutic art practices to respond to and process loss. This may be grief associated with the loss of a loved one; ancestral grief; loss of self; loss of community; loss of place; loss of ecosystems and species.

The intention is for you to leave the day with artistic tools that enable a safe place in which to process and give grief a voice. We will use watercolour, clay, chalk pastels and charcoal (subject to time constraints on the day)

£95 per person and £25 for art materials

This is the first of three workshops in a series, the second one being TRANSFORMING SHAME (15 February) and the third, a RAINBOW of FEELINGS (15 March).

Advance booking of all 3 costs a total £240 and £50 for the art materials.

For more information please contact Sue on 07849 008358

with Sue Davies

In this one day workshop we will be exploring Shame, the unresolved aspect of ourselves, our Shadow.  

Working with pastels and watercolour, we will create a cradle of courage, forgiveness, kindness, trust and hope to enable the possibility of bringing shame compassionately into the light and be given a voice.  As you work with your shame you give the wound the air it needs to heal and then it becomes a scar - you can revisit it but the power and pain has gone. 

No art experience necessary. Please contact Sue Davies directly on 07849008358.

£95 per person and £15 for art materials.

At Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Place, Marylebone, London, NW1

Sue is a BACP accredited Therapeutic Arts Counsellor and Group Facilitator.  She has a private practice, designs and runs tailor-made workshops, including for corporate clients, and is a visiting Tutor and Supervisor for students at Tobias School of Art & Therapy.

with Sue Davies

In this workshop we will explore innate human qualities using the colours of the rainbow, and connecting them to symbols and ideas from the Vedic tradition of the 7 energy centres known as the chakras:  Base chakra - Trust; Sacral chakra - Creative Potential; Naval chakra - Courage; Heart chakra - Compassion; Throat Chakra - Truth; Third Eye - Vision;  Crown chakra - Creative Spirit. 

This workshop is intended to be deeply nourishing, nurturing us through a colour journey.

No art experience necessary,

£95 per person and £20 for art materials. Please contact Sue Davies directly on 07849008358.

At Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Place, Marylebone, London, NW1

Sue is a BACP accredited Therapeutic Arts Counsellor and Group Facilitator.  She has a private practice, designs and runs tailor-made workshops, including for corporate clients, and is a visiting Tutor and Supervisor for students at Tobias School of Art & Therapy.