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participation
community workshops
For education workshops taking place in schools, please refer to schools page
Early years creative play / arts mix
Sessions with puppets, props, music, movement/dance, storytelling creating special sensory environments with children to enhance and increase their potential for imaginative play. Especially suitable for children aged 8 and under.
Click here for the Under 5’s workshop page
Drop-in theatrical play, circus and arts workshops
Can be booked for conferences, health fairs, public consultations, fun-days
and outdoor events
Drama Skills - Theatre Making
Our team of theatre practitioners can be booked to facilitate theatre making at your setting. We channel participants’ ideas and imagination to bring characters to life and teach drama skills through improvisation, role-play and theatre games. Working and playing together as a group, participants learn devising skills and how to build plots and create plays from scratch. These workshop sessions or days can be directed towards creating an actual performance.
Themed Performance Play
Workshops inspired by and based around the elements of a particular show. Working with actors, storytellers, puppeteers, musicians and artists, children are encouraged to engage actively with the ideas and images they have experienced through watching and participating in an In Toto Theatre performance.
Puppetry
Workshops in rod, glove, shadow puppetry and object theatre/animation,
including making and teaching both traditional and contemporary techniques
For example:
Shadow Play
Experiment with light and music, shadow puppets, objects and our own bodies to tell stories and create magical worlds. We convert a studio, resource room or class room into a magical sensory environment. Usually offered as a half or full day workshop with one class unit, with a puppeteer and musician. A flexible workshop which can be tailored to all ages and abilities.
Mask
Our mask workshops can be applied for use in education, theatre training, therapy and personal growth work to encourage self-awareness. We offer workshops in playing and making masks and developing physical theatre skills: neutral, larval or naïve masks, archetypal and commedia dell’arte.
Carnival Arts
Enlivening public spaces -making parade costumes, giant processional puppets, creating and performing street music and theatre
Clowning/physical comedy/ Mime
Family dance and music workshops
Community dance and percussion sessions are offered to groups as self-contained sessions (as part Healthy living programmes for example) or in the wider context of an outreach theatre programme working with choreographers, directors, writers and performers. We offer sessions teaching folk dances from a variety of cultural traditions - Chinese ribbon dance, Ghanian African dances, Flamenco, to give examples - mostly as children's or family dance sessions, in addition to contemporary and street dance.
For example:
Capoeira
Capoeira is a combination of dance, martial art, music and acrobatics created originally by African slaves in Brazil.
Please refer to the Youth page
Kids’ capoeira
The play and game elements in the form are particularly appealing to a younger age group. Taking a more unusual, broad approach to the art form, we offer fun-filled sessions of capoeira inspired games and play alongside the teaching of Afro-Brazilian rhythms.
Youth arts
Please refer to the Youth page