physical performance workshop
RELEASING THE CREATIVE BEAST
by Jüri Nael and Giacomo Veronesi
for actors, directors, dancers, choreographers, performers, performance makers and multidisciplinary artists
Dates
10 August 10.00-16.00
11 August 10.00-16.00
Venue
The Space Dance & Arts Centre
318 Chapel St, Prahran VIC 3181, MELBOURNE Australia
A transformative workshop designed to help you discover new paths to reach unexplored states of awareness, tap into your creativity, and generate material without hesitation, playfully, straight from the heart of your practice.
Releasing the Creative Beast is part of a series of workshops exploring the range of our deepest gut feelings. It’s a research beyond conventional performers’ strategies to express what lies uncompromised at the heart of an artist’s impulses.
Tuition Fees
The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre partially subsidises the workshop as part of the audition tour for its MA in Contemporary Physical Performance Making Course in South Korea, Australia, Brazil, the USA, and the UK.
Tuition fees in Melbourne are:
One day – 30 AUD
Two days – 50 AUD
You will pay the fee once your place in the workshop is confirmed. The details will be sent via email.
Applying for the workshop
Please complete the online Application Form and attach your CV. This will allow us to ensure that the workshop is designed for a specific group of participants in mind.
Contact
For contact and further questions, please get in touch with us via email info_cppm@eamt.ee
Workshop Leaders
Jüri Nael
Jüri Nael is a leading professor of contemporary performance at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. There, he runs the international Master of Arts program in Contemporary Physical Performance Making (CPPM) and teaches movement and physical performance to BA Acting students. He is also teaching physical performance at several renowned institutions around the world, including the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and the Royal Central School for Speech and Drama (RCSSD) in London, Jacksonville University (Florida, USA) and the University of Tampere (Finland).
Professor Nael’s academic background includes a Bachelor’s degree in Choreography from the Viljandi Culture Academy. He holds an MA in European Dance Theatre Practice from Trinity Laban in London, an MA in Text and Performance Studies from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) / King’s College London, an MA in Theatre Studies from the University of Amsterdam, and an MA in International Performance Research from the University of Warwick. Currently, he is doing a PhD in Theatre at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
As an award-winning choreographer and movement director, he has worked on over 100 international productions in some of the most prestigious theatres in Europe, including the Royal Shakespeare Company in the UK, Burgtheatre in Austria, Thalia Theatre in Germany, Bolshoi Drama Theatre in Russia, Helsinki City Theatre in Finland, Wermland Opera in Sweden, Theatre NO99 in Estonia, Kaunas State Music Theatre in Lithuania, Dailes Theatre in Latvia.
Giacomo Veronesi
Giacomo Veronesi, born in 1984 in Milan, studied economics at Bocconi and earned a Master’s in Economics of Cultural Heritage. Concurrently, he studied theatre direction at Paolo Grassi, focusing on Polish dramaturgy. After his studies, he worked with Alvis Hermanis in a European co-production and at Teatro Alla Scala in Milan. As an actor, he participated in a four-year research project by Russian director Anatolij Vasiliev and began his research career across Wroclaw, Paris, and Venice.
From 2014 to 2017, Veronesi joined Thalia Theater in Hamburg, collaborating with directors like Luk Perceval and Sebastian Nübling. He also acted in various productions, facilitated workshops for young refugees, and created numerous works for the stage and different site-specific contexts.
From 2018 to 2021, Veronesi focused on site-specific practices and new technologies, producing urban works in Zurich and Lucerne. He currently teaches at several European universities, including Emta in Tallinn, where he is a senior lecturer in Physical Performance Making (CPPM). He collaborates with renowned artists and companies while pursuing his doctorate in post-psychophysics and continues his directorial career in Tallinn, Milan, Venice, and Zurich.
In 2022/23 Veronesi enters a two-year collaboration with Steirischer Herbst and produces a series of performances based on identity, trauma release and physicality with the collaboration of Austrian soldiers and the alien citizens of the border town of Narva. For two years Veronesi has conducted ethnographic performance research in the rural areas of the south of Italy on the topic of archiving and researches the reframing of psychophysical training.