Back from Ireland for one month only - dance-theatre maker and performer Bella Young will share a taste of her inclusive dance theatre practice.

Through movement, improvisation, storytelling and music - the workshop series will gently invite you to explore and develop performance skills utilisable across disciplines.

I am interested in exploring how I can become the most grounded, aware, connected, responsive and joyous version of myself when I perform. In this short series, I hope to share some of the ways I make work, teach, and a few techniques I practise to survive (and thrive) as an artist both on and off stage. For the first time, I'm excited to co-facilitate one of these workshops and give participants the opportunity to also briefly explore the intersections between music and theatre.

Week 1 - Ensemble - the basis of my practice

Week 2 - Improvisation - music and performance (joined by guitarist David Keating)

Week 3 - Solos - being you

Week 4 - Making - Text and choreography

This workshop is open to people of all ages, genders, abilities, and backgrounds. You are welcome to watch, come and go as you need, you aren't required to have a professional background in performance, just a passion and curiosity to create.

Bella is a performing artist based between Cork, Ireland and lutruwita [Tasmania], Australia.

Bella is Youth Advisory Officer on the board of RANT Arts (https://www.rantarts.com/board) and works as a puppeteer with Terrapin Puppet Theatre (https://terrapin.org.au/), and previously as a theatre-maker with Second Echo Ensemble (https://secondechoensemble.org/). She works predominantly as a puppeteer, actor, teacher and physical theatre performer. Expect lots of energy, movement, music, and reflection.

Upcoming 2025 performances:

Australian mainland Tour for The Paper Escaper, Terrapin, July - Sept 2025.

Tasmania theatre tour, Feathers, Terrapin, October 2025. https://terrapin.org.au/work/feathers

See more: https://www.behance.net/gallery/217562289/Bella-Young-Creative-Portfolio

Photo credit Dan Cripps