Education

Continuo Theatre has been collaborating with several European theatre universities for over a decade. It has been involved in teaching students of the Italian Accademia Dell’Arte, Prague’s DAMU, provides residencies for students of the Swiss Accademia Dimitri, and in recent years has worked extensively with London’s Rose Bruford College. As part of the programme, its students take part in a two-month traineeship at the headquarters of the Continuo Theatre Plum Yard in Malovice.

Continuo Theatre’s pedagogy is a complex system that relies not only on long-term experience, but also on regular study of lecturers, theoretical and practical research and collaboration with experts in the field of arts education. The lecturers – members of the ensemble of Continuo Theatre – have experience in artistic creative activity in the field of physical and visual theatre, dance, acting, and also in the field of artistic pedagogy for children, adults and seniors, as well as pedagogy for people with special needs or people with disabilities.

The pedagogy of Continuo Theatre is based on its artistic direction, focusing on physical and visual theatre. The basic point and main theme of its pedagogy is the human body and its expressive possibilities in connection with the use of material, object and puppet.

During the workshops and seminars, which can vary in format and duration, participants are introduced to the possibilities and principles of the physical expressiveness of their own bodies through training and exercises. The emphasis is on connecting the emotional, psychological and physical sides of the personality to find authentic and distinctive artistic expression. An important aspect is group work, learning from others, joint reflection and analysis. Training and exercises focus on many aspects of expression and movement of the human body.