14 attend instructive theatre workshop

Fourteen participants from theatre groups in Gaborone and surrounding areas, including students from VAPA, participated in the week-long exercise.

The workshop covered a variety of valuable areas in the performing arts including trust exercises (working as a group), rhythm and improvisation, the feet as the basis of performance, and working with images (paintings, image theatre, initial playmaking from images.  The workshop also covered working with dialogue, the body in relation to others (theatre from poses), levels of tension, emotional states (and their political meanings), and clothing and its meaning.