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sun aug 18th- sun aug 25th

coed dylan, carmarthenshire, wales

 Spend 8 days in idylic retreat; in the depths of West   Wales, and the depths of your creative Self.

 Experience innovative approaches to acting + directing, 

 weaving diverse methods together to 

 complement and enrich your practice as 

 a Contemporary Performance Maker 
 

 Meisner Technique + NLP facilitated by actor + acting  coach ROBERT BOWMAN 

 

 Stanislavsky’s Active Analysis guided by 

directing coach ELEN BOWMAN 

 + director/artist THAN HUSSEIN CLARK 


Devised/Improvised site responsive text + performance   led by LESLEY EWEN 
 
 additional methods explored: 
Le Coq, Alexander Technique, 
Linklater Voice work 

Drawing + Meditation hosted by Living Pictures  facilitator team POLLY WALDRON, FLORRIE DOBSON   CASSIDY McCARTEN and ADRIAN GREENSMITH 

...simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary.

The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked,

it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. 

                                                       - Franz Kafka

Embodied Creation is a way of generating performance material from deep within your 'bodymind'; the level of consciousness that lies beyond judgement, ego, or desire for product and perfection.

Over three afternoons Lesley will guide you through a series of practices that will support your journey deeper into your creative consciouness. She’ll ‘hold space’ that enables you to work without the usual judgements that stymie unique creative impulses. With ‘a willingness to see what wants to appear’, and the courage to be present in each moment in order to open your ‘doors of perception’, you'll allow a richer stream of creation to flow through you. With practice this way of working can become an invaluable skill that will rarely fail you...in Art and even in Life.

day one
to be…in a new way...?
we’ll begin with breath to which we’ll add form, and challenge

we’ll review the results;
how we feel in our bodies now?
how now feels in our bodies?

we’ll spend time + pay attention
…to the world as we sense it

in our deep stillness

we’ll journey through the natural world of Coed Dylan, guided by sense

…feeling…smell…sound…taste...thought

being present with our Selves, respecting our senses, open to the journey 

the story that arises 

that our senses share us with

day two
we’ll begin with breath...
we submit to our embodied impulse...
add time + the freedom to play in space....


we’ll breathe again and trust…

in our selves, nature and creation;

we move, add curiosity, move again

+ see what happens

we’ll reflect on place and space...
what draws us
 when we open from deeply

within our bodies, from Self?
what arises in big Mind? from open hearts?
how does place + space + nature

ask us to move? impulse us?
what attracts us? what delights?

from this organic communion we write;
no head, just heart and flow;

experience + image expressed in sentences;

then sentences expressed

in movement + sound, reverberating with the images + thoughts + ideas that arose

we allow it all, play it out and practice, we Be with a willingness to see what wants to appear
without judgement or editing

or trying to make a beautiful thing
(that comes later)

day three
we combine it all

we shape it into a journey through time

in green a place
which we’ll share

with some lovely people

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