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Pig Iron Workshops Across the Nation

The Pig Iron School is taking its signature workshops on a little roadshow around the United States in the coming months. These free and low-cost workshops will introduce emerging performing artists to the pedagogy and artistic sparks that are central to the devising practices of our 29 year old company and 13 year old graduate school.  Through a weekend of hands on exercises, participants will discover new devising and physical theatre tools that will sharpen their performances and add depth to their original works. These workshops are especially intended for individuals who see themselves creating their own works and who delight in collaboration and play.

Join core faculty members to explore the possibilities of physical theater, while training the expressive body, and unlocking new theatrical forms.  And help us spread the word if you know folks in Austin, the Bay Area, Chicago, and New York City!

Click here to apply for a free workshop (TX, CA, IL).

Austin, TX

Ensemble Devising: Open Canvas and Poetic Theatre-Making

a workshop with Dito van Reigersberg

November 16 & 17, 1-4:30pm

FREE at the Winship Theatre Building at the University of Texas - 300 E 23rd St, Austin, TX

The workshop will offer tools and approaches to ensemble devising, a process of collective imagination, resulting in layered work that is the result of collaboration, wild ideation, and play. We will eventually land on an exercise that Pig Iron uses to create all of its work, Open Canvas, resulting in poetic explorations of contemporary themes that utilize the contributions of everyone in the ensemble, physically, dynamically, theatrically.

Berkeley, CA

Foundations of Physical Theater: Lecoq, Pig Iron, and The Expressive Body

a workshop with Quinn Bauriedel

December 7 & 8, 1-5pm

FREE at Shotgun Players - 1201 University Ave, Berkeley, CA

French master theatre teacher Jacques Lecoq believed in a “theatre of tomorrow”, led by emerging artists who wanted to create original performance works that are playful, rigorous, and that move. This workshop will explore the roots of physical theatre starting with breath, presence, improvisation, and eventually the construction of physical states and characters, always aiming to provide a set of tools for each theatre-maker to deploy toward their own performance practice.  The weekend will feature a series of exercises and approaches to performance that will lead to surprising and arresting moments of live theatre, letting verbal language behind as we search for a more universal language, the language of the body, gesture, and the ensemble.

Chicago, IL

Foundations of Physical Theater: Lecoq, Pig Iron, and The Expressive Body

a workshop with Emmanuelle Delpech

December 7 & 8, 1-5pm

EDIT: 11.20.24

Workshop is full. Waitlist only.

FREE at Ruth Page Center - 1016 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL

French master theatre teacher Jacques Lecoq believed in a “theatre of tomorrow”, led by emerging artists who wanted to create original performance works that are playful, rigorous, and that move.  This workshop will explore the roots of physical theatre starting with breath, presence, improvisation, and eventually the construction of physical states and characters, always aiming to provide a set of tools for each theatre-maker to deploy toward their own performance practice.  The weekend will feature a series of exercises and approaches to performance that will lead to surprising and arresting moments of live theatre, letting verbal language behind as we search for a more universal language, the language of the body, gesture, and the ensemble.

New York, NY

Masterclass on Devising, The Ensemble, and The Poetics of the Stage

with Quinn Bauriedel 

January 16, 2:30-4:30pm

$30 as part of PhysFest NYC
Order Tickets Here

Theater is a poetic art form, abounding in visual metaphors, double meanings, and gestures that stand in for the whole.  This master class will explore the poetic body and the poetic stage, aiming to glimpse the power of layering the stage with different kinds of meaning to move theatre-makers from writing in prose to writing with all the theatrical tools at their disposal: breath, body, tension, sound, silence, gesture, repetition, and surprise.  Bring your body and imagination and take part in an exploration of how to use the theater to evoke and provoke, whisper and blister, caress and transgress.