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Workshops

What Our Workshops Offer

Our workshops are short-format Labs—one to three days of focused, practical exploration designed to immerse actors in the core principles of the work. Rooted in the cultivation of presence in acting, these Labs create an environment where performers can step out of habitual patterns and into a state of heightened awareness and embodied responsiveness.

Each workshop centers on embodiment practices, grounding techniques, and sensory activation, guiding actors toward a more authentic connection between body, voice, emotion, and instinct. By prioritizing lived experience over performance tricks, participants learn to access a deeper, more truthful state of being on stage or on camera.

Our workshops are offered in three formats:

  • All Levels — offering a clear and accessible entry point into the methodology.
  • Experienced — for those with more professional and Physical Lab experience
  • Pro Level — for professional-level performers and Labbers who have a solid understanding of the work

Through this concentrated format, actors cultivate creative freedom, emotional availability, and dynamic spontaneity—qualities that lead to more authentic, imaginative, and compelling performances.

A Concentrated Introduction to the Work

Each workshop creates a clear, accessible entry point into the Physical Lab methodology. Sessions move between physical conditioning, ensemble awareness, improvisation, and performance tools, giving you a grounded sense of how the work functions in practice. The format is intentionally compact, allowing you to engage deeply without the commitment of a full Lab.

 

Who These Workshops are For

These sessions are designed for a wide range of performers:

  • Those encountering the Physical Lab for the first time
  • Artists returning to refresh their training
  • Performers looking to reconnect with the fundamentals
  • Anyone seeking a short, intensive boost to their creative practice
  • The pace is energetic but welcoming, meeting you exactly where you are.

What You Will Take Away

You’ll gain a clearer understanding of the Physical Lab methodology along with practical tools you can apply immediately to your performance work. As you engage with the process, you’ll build renewed confidence in your physical and creative instincts and develop a stronger sense of connection—to the work itself, to the ensemble around you, and to your own evolving practice.

Our workshops create space to slow down, experiment, and take creative risks in a supportive environment. Altogether, they offer a chance to reset, explore, and rediscover the joy of embodied performance.

Upcoming Labs

Paris
Experienced

Creative Residency | Paris

20 Apr – 25 Apr 2026
École de Danse de la Bibliothèque

This six-day residency explores scenes from an early 20th-century Russian play that traces the arc of a human life as a poetic allegory. Using physical theatre tools, participants investigate presence, impulse, energy, and the body as an active force in storytelling. Through movement exercises, improvisation, and scene work, actors engage the text as a living landscape, uncovering meaning through the body and imagination. Rooted in the Physical Lab methodology, the residency emphasizes embodiment as a pathway to truthful, instinctive performance. The process unfolds as a collaborative laboratory where performers explore, experiment, and create together.

Info & Apply Tatiana Spivakova
London
Experienced

The Body in Resistance

12 May – 15 May 2026
Chisenhale Dance Space

A four-day embodied exploration of the language of Federico García Lorca, focusing on desire, resistance, and physical presence through intensive scene and movement work. Using physical theatre tools and embodiment practices, participants investigate how Lorca’s imagery and rhythm can be activated through the body. Through exercises, improvisation, and focused scene exploration, actors develop greater awareness of impulse, tension, and emotional energy in performance. The lab invites performers to approach the text as a living force, allowing physical presence and instinct to shape the storytelling.

Info & Apply Tatiana Spivakova