Fergus Aitken: Physical Theatre & Mime Workshop

A 90-minute intensive physical theatre and mime class for performing artists and any people wishing to develop their physical skills and awareness.

From the same human that brought you PIOTR from Uzbekoslavia, host of the 2019 Burlesque Rumble.

Students are taken on a journey of play and exploration, developing spontaneity, freedom, playfulness and presence plus mime techniques, via games and improvisation.

- movement analysis
- illusionary mime
- physical comedy
- slow motion
- states of tension
- isolations and robotics

The workshop costs $35 per person.
For ages 16 plus.

Bookings essential. Spaces are limited.

Interested participants please book via info@fergusaitken.co.nz -
tel. 021 386 487.

Workshop leader Fergus Aitken has over three decades experience in over a dozen countries world-wide. An international award-winning entertainer, he has performed in Russia, England, Ireland, Scotland, Netherlands, Fiji and Australia.

As PIOTR, he has hosted numerous key burlesque events throughout NZ and in 2016, Fergus was the first non-Australian MC at the Rites of Passage Tattoo Festival in Melbourne

Recent masterclasses have included Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Wellington, Riverside, Nelson, Christchurch, Queenstown and Dunedin.

Fergus trained in mime, physical theatre, circus and clown, in the UK and in NZ. His teachers include Robert Bennett, Desmond Jones, John Wright, Simon McBurney, Les Bubb, John Bolton, Deb Pope, Giovanni Fusetti, Thomas Monckton, Fraser Hooper and Ira Seidenstein.

There is one free place available.
To apply for this scholarship place, please submit a 1 page letter - detailing why you feel you should be offered a free place.

For more details on the scholarship place, please contact info@fergusaitken.co.nz