#2: Complicite

Challenging the Chorus

Led by Associate Artist Joyce Henderson

Fee: £100

Traditionally the Chorus is a homogenous group of people that comments on the action of a play, responding to narrative events and shaping the audience’s understanding of space, location and atmosphere. This workshop asks whether this has to be the case, or whether challenging tradition could actually lead to something far more exciting.

Through a series of exercises, the workshop will explore the conventions of the Chorus, looking at how a group develops shared rhythms and a sense of physical and spatial awareness. Then it will experiment with the limits of these conventions, asking what happens when a Chorus is formed not of identical bodies, but of individuals - of people who move, speak, and think differently to one another, but remain within the context of the story being told.

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