Course Title
Creating Solo Performance with Hannah Ballou
This course takes a multidisciplinary approach to the creation of solo performance for actors, writers, and artists who want to experiment with this eclectic form. Experienced solo performance artists will also be challenged to stretch and transform their current practice. Practical exercises and creative prompts are drawn from contemporary and 20th century performance art, live art, alt-cabaret, experimental comedy, and physical & postdramatic theatre lineages. You will explore techniques for mining lived experience and the autobiographical. You will also prepare short assignments outside class to perform the following week. The 8-week course culminates in a work-in-progress performance of extracts for an invited audience.
Course Outline:
On the course, you will explore:
- Playful approaches to self, persona, form, and audience.
- Autobiographical performance.
- Comic voice: levity and gravity.
- Performance art: compelling actions & reframing the body.
- Experimental approaches to performance text.
- Work-in-progress sharings, feedback, and reflection.
- Performance of extracts for an invited audience.
Course Fee - £425
Booking Information
Our courses are available on a first come, first served basis in order of payment.
To secure a place, please take the following steps:
- Read through our Terms and Conditions before booking
- Click on ‘Book your place’ above. Please make sure you are booking for the correct course and option (i.e. Mon/Wed or Tue/Thu if more than one option is available)
- Click ‘Select’ and follow the steps through to the completion of booking
- If your preferred dates are sold out, you can click ‘Join Waiting List’ and we will let you know if a place becomes available
This course is suitable for actors, writers, artists, and other performers who want to experiment with making solo performance, as well as established solo performance artists who want to stretch and transform their current material and creative practice.
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| Times | All times listed are either GMT or GMT +1 (depending on the time of year). If you’re joining from overseas, please use a timezone convertor before booking to establish what the local time will be for you. | |
| Age | The minimum age is 18 on the first day of the course. There is no upper age limit. | |
| Max. class size | 14 students | |
| Course Delivery | All of the Evening Courses take place onsite at our Swiss Cottage campus in London. | |
| International students | We welcome International Students to our courses, however please ensure you are on the correct visa. As our Evening Courses are classed as part-time, non-accredited short courses they are not eligible for a Tier 4 Student Visa however you may be eligible for a Short Term Study Visa. | |
| Language requirements | Applicants must be confident speaking and reading English to a conversational level (IELTS score of 7.0 or equivalent). You may be expected to read texts/scripts that have advanced vocabulary. | |
| Attendance | Due to the structure and the collaborative nature of the courses, full attendance is requested. | |
| Refunds | We are able to offer a full refund up until 14 days before the course begins. After this, the course will become fully non-refundable. | |
| Cancellations | Central reserves the right to cancel this course if we do not meet the minimum number of participants. In this instance, a full refund will be made to you. We are unable to refund any other costs you may have incurred. |
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