ANNOUNCEMENT! - February 2025 London Weekend workshop! - Working in Animal

Deer, Bushy Park, South London

Working in Animal with Gabrielle Moleta -

Blurring the lines between the human and the non-human animal

FEBRUARY 7-9 2025

A weekend workshop with Gabrielle Moleta in her detailed method to creating character through working in animal.

“To act is to transform” and this approach gives the actor/performer a physical method of work, with an animal or bird as the source.  You can read about the approach,  ‘Transformation and Imaginative Improvisation’, here.

Timings:

Friday 7th February 6.30pm- 9.30pm

Saturday 8th February 10- 2pm

Sunday 9th February 10- 5pm    

£199   (£149 Early Bird price if paid by 7th January)                                                     

To contact Gabrielle with queries, email gabriellemovement@gmail.com

The knowledge I have learned from Gabrielle has proved invaluable in my own work as both an actor and a writer/director. Her methods of character development form the bedrock of my understanding of character and she remains to this day the most influential and inspiring of my teachers in the dramatic arts. - David Cumming- SpitLip, Operation Mincemeat creator, writer, actor

Venue: BOLD - 21 St George's Rd, Elephant and Castle, London SE1 6ES

Who is it for: It’s for actors, performers, makers, writers, dancers, artists. All bodies are good bodies.

If you have worked with Gabrielle before and want a chance to dive back in, explore a new animal - or build on an animal you have already worked on with her - sharpening your instincts for character creation this is a perfect weekend for you.

If you haven't  worked with Gabrielle before, this is the workshop to start with - a rare chance to learn and instill the groundwork and open the way for transformation towards character creation.

Working with Gabrielle, a ‘master of her craft’, you will discover this detailed, imaginative approach to enabling transformation through her specific approach in animal. This approach has its roots in the work of Jacques Copeau, and has been developed over the last century through a direct lineage of teachers leading to Gabrielle.  

You will develop new habits, come to new discoveries for character creation – both physical and imaginative- through an intensive and nurturing process.

Cost: £199 (£149 Early Bird price if paid by 7th January 2025.)

[An] incredibly freeing and invigorating experience… being in animal gave me a deep sense of uniqueness and individuality, which I’m sure will enrich and enhance my future work. Gabrielle’s guidance opened up a profound new layer of expression for me, and it’s something I’ll carry forward with excitement and confidence. - Tracy Coogan, Actress

Invigorating, the course put ‘a life’ in me - Annie Morrad - Artist

It is endlessly exciting and will bring a living process of ever changing discoveries to your practice, performances and characterisation. - Myles Horgan - Drama Lecturer

Gabrielle has an uncanny and astute knowledge of the body (and body-mind relationship) as a performance tool and is a master at guiding actors in how to access new ranges in their own work. Her work in (Animal) Transformation is unlike any I have come across. - Fay Simpson, Lucid Body founder

What we will cover:

·       Physical preparatory exercises

·       Approaches to animal observation

·       A step by step approach to working in an animal

·       Developing the human from the animal

About Gabrielle 

Gabrielle works as a movement coach and director, and has been helping develop actors and performers over the past two decades. She gives masterclasses internationally, and has taught at leading conservatoires in the UK. She teaches regularly at Gaiety School of Acting - National Theatre School of Ireland (Dublin); RADA (London), and is part of the movement faculty at Shakespeare’s Globe. In her Transformation work she carries a unique legacy passed down from teacher to assistant, from Jacques Copeau through Michel Saint Denis, John Blatchley and Catherine Clouzot. You can read more about her coaching work here.

Gabrielle is without doubt one of the best movement practitioners with whom I have ever worked - Lyndall Grant- fight director/actor/movement coach