During the workshops company members share various ways of working with expressions which go beyond the borders of the genres of physical, dramatic, dance, or musical theater, and with composition of individual or collective actions. The materials for work with expressions and attentiveness are specific cultural manifestations (songs, rhythms, physical text), space, grounding of the body and voice, the quality of movements and narrations through the intention of an individual part of the body. The shape of movements, intonation of voices, and tectonics of rhythm are materializations of ineffable aspects of human experience, and a way to overcome the borders of autonomy.
Workshop participants have the unique opportunity to try out the practical processes of the creative and authorial work in collaboration with company members who give them individual attention.

Workshops concluding with an „Action” are focused on practical guidance toward a fixed scenic shape that is assembled on the basis of musical principles arising out of mutual connections, emphasizing a precise synchronicity. Thus participants have a unique opportunity to try out Farm in the Cave’s process of preparing a performance.

The workshops are typically organized in Prague, or by invitation at festivals, schools or other organizations in the Czech Republic and abroad.

”The body of the actor is like soil or an unknown land which (s)he has inherited. Culture and the body that inherited are supposed to be taken over by the exertion of personal development.“ Jana Pilátová

Workshops´ specifications:

The physical score / Immerse performing

The workshop will introduce participants to various ways of creating the physical score, focusing on the relationship between the inner structure and the outer composition of action, between rhythm and meaning, between living presence and precise fixing of elements. It will inspire participants in their daily practice, thus leading them from training to creation. 

The creation of action and a physical text

The physical text is not only a counterbalance to the verbal text, but a basic and individual articulation of a dancer, actor and performer on stage.

Musicality in the theatre and scenic art in music

The workshop will focus on the interpretational and compositional works using music as a material for theatre. A rediscovery of musical structures as a determining compositional principle for theatre and communication through non-verbal expressions generally.

Specific training and creation of a theatrical language

How the elements of expressions in a given culture can be transformed to the actor’s training first and then to the bodily messages. The workshop will offer the practical exercises Farm in the Cave´s actors go through during the creation of the performance, for which the ’farmers‘ became a new school of working with the expression.