physical theater workshop
RELEASING THE CREATIVE BEAST
by Jüri Nael and Giacomo Veronesi
for actors, directors, dancers, choreographers, performers, performance makers and multidisciplinary artists
Dates
Saturday, 14 September 15:00-20:00
Sunday, 15 September 15:00-20:00
Venue
The Place
17 Duke’s Rd, London WC1H 9PY, United Kingdom
https://theplace.org.uk
Entrance instructions
https://theplace.org.uk/your-visit (please use 16 Flaxman Terrace entrance)
Google Maps
https://maps.app.goo.gl/e4jiCpmovYAoHDtD7
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 Theater partially subsidizes this workshop as part of their audition tour for MA in Contemporary Physical Performance Making course in South Korea, Australia, Brazil, the USA, and the UK.
The fee is 35 GBP for one day and 70 GBP for two days.
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 with a specific group of participants in mind. You can join for one or two workshop days. Please be aware that places to this workshop are very limited and we are not able to accept you if places are full.
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 Theater 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 Theater 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 Theater 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 theaters in Europe, including the Royal Shakespeare Company in the UK, Burgtheatre in Austria, Thalia Theater in Germany, Bolshoi Drama Theater in Russia, Helsinki City Theater in Finland, Wermland Opera in Sweden, Theater NO99 in Estonia, Kaunas State Music Theater in Lithuania, Dailes Theater 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 theater 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.
