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Training

Masterclasses

How to Work & Rehearse Online

Date: 27 October 2021
Time: 10:00AM - 1:00PM BST
Location: Online

 

Led by members of the BFT ensemble, this session will reflect on best practice and challenges of undertaking a creative process in a digital space.

It will explore:

  • how to run a 'rehearsal room at a distance' and how theatre makers can transition this back into a physical space ahead of a performance,
  • how to use digital technology to devise a new piece and 
  • how to manage online performances.  

 

The session will include practical tasks and tools and techniques that participants can apply to their practice.

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Introductory Training


Date: 26 & 27 November 2021
Time: 10:30AM - 5:00PM 
Location: NDT Broadgate, London

 

This two-day intensive workshop, provides training in our unique methodology of creating original performances based on the personal stories and lived experiences of individuals.

Participants will learn how to:

  • capture and record peoples' personal stories and experiences
  • free their mental/physical inhibitions, develop the flexibility, plasticity and physical form necessary for the expression of inner life
  • draw on personal experiences to create a simple series of ètudes/sketches that form the basis of a performances based on documentary material.

 

Suitable for students, emerging or mid-career actors, directors and theatre-makers, aged 18+.

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International Summer School

BFT’s two-week residential summer school offers a total immersion into our  unique approach to devising and creating theatre, combining an in-depth exploration of art-activism together with a raft of theatrical techniques culminating in the creation of a brand new piece of work.


Each year the summer school takes place in a different city located in one of the post-Soviet Union states. Against this backdrop, students learn about the history of dictatorial rule that oppressed the region for nearly 70 years, and how its legacy extends to the present day.

During this time, we continue to support our activists, theatre makers and educators thanks to the generous support of our donors and audiences. If you’d like to make a donation click here.

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“One of the bravest and most inspired underground troupes on the planet”
The New York Times

For the past fifteen years, Belarus Free Theatre has pioneered a global model of activism that unites artistic, geopolitical, environmental and human rights concerns, using theatre to build a movement for democracy, human rights and artistic freedoms.

Founded in 2005 in Minsk under Europe's last surviving dictatorship, and banned by its own government on political grounds, BFT’s leadership and permanent ensemble are uniquely equipped with first-hand experience of the myriad threats facing democracy today.

Co-founding Artistic Directors, Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin, lead on high-level political advocacy and investigative journalism from the UK whilst BFT’s 12-strong permanent ensemble deliver citizen-facing work around cultural resistance through performances, campaigns and education programmes on the ground in Minsk.

We had hoped to share more details with you about BFT's campaigns, upcoming productions and our remarkable and indefatigable permanent ensemble but cannot do so at the current time without putting those in Minsk in greater danger.

You can support our brave artivists and educators here. Particularly at the current time, your donations are a lifeline for BFT.

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We will be announcing workshops held in the UK and online so please check our Education section.