Training Opportunities

Upcoming Workshops

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Workshop Archive

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Weekly Training Sessions

Currently there are no regular weekly sessions but we are planning sessions in the future.

Mailing List

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Butoh

Butoh originated in Japan in the 1960s. Difficult to define and always evolving, Butoh could be considered ‘a deep research into the body’ rather than a dance technique. Butoh workshops challenge performers with stillness, slow motion, and extremely ‘charged’ states. They develop a powerful and flexible imagination, and a receptive body capable of manifesting that imagination. In Butoh, the performer seeks ‘not to move, but be moved’ and transformation is a key theme in many workshops.

Yoga for Performers

The performer must learn to control and play with a highly complex ‘living instrument’. It is impossible to separate the elements of that instrument - mind, body, breath, and energy. Therefore the integrated, holistic approach of yoga provides a powerful tool of self-observation and self-knowing for the performer. A combination of ‘yin’ and ‘yang’ styles of yoga is important to achieving balance in performer training. Yoga can help to reveal the preferences that might become rigid habits if they are not balanced with their opposite. 

Events,
Recommended Workshops & Links

See details of events involving our members, our partner companies, and international organisations we recommend.

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Welcome
to the website for the London-based Theatre Training Initiative.  For performers, training is a way of life that lasts the full length of our careers. Theatre Training Initiative aims to support that journey by providing workshops by excellent teachers, of inspirational methods, that interrogate the fundamental issues faced by performers across all disciplines. We cater to the needs of students at the beginning of their career, and professionals looking for new inspirations or approaches to develop their skills and creativity.

Theatre Training Initiative’s History

Theatre Training Initiative was established in 2000 by Frances Barbe, Antje Diedrich and Lukas Angelini. Sharing a passion for training that focused on the ‘liveness’ of theatre, they made training available regularly and at affordable prices. They fore-grounded ‘deep training’ approaches that interrogate the art and craft of performing. From simple beginnings of 10-20 people, the mailing list has grown to way over 700. TTI has hosted some of the world’s top teachers (Ellen Laura, Frank Theatre, Lorna Marsall, and Phillip Zarrilli). The original spirit and focus of the organisation remains, even as the scale of its work has increased significantly.

The Suzuki Actors Training Method

The Suzuki Actor Training Method was developed by Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki and his company, SCOT. TTI founding members know of the method through Frank Theatre (Australia) and the SITI Company (New York), who have both been guests of TTI in London. This approach to actor training is a rigorous physical and vocal discipline, that develops the performer’s relationship with the ground, and with the centre of the body. It demands high levels of energy, control, and concentration, as well as spontaneity and presence. Through it, most people find highly practical insights into the nature of performance.

Other Training

Kalaripayattu with Phillip Zarrilli

Mask

Viewpoints as developed by the SITI Company

Frank / Suzuki Performance Aesthetics

Lorna Marshall

Affiliations

Theatre Training Initiative has an agreement of mutual support with the following companies, who share its conviction for deep training as the basis of performance.

Fran Barbe Dance Theatre, Zecoura Ura, Para Active