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OBJECT & PERFORMER 2026<\/a><\/div>\n
MAKE THE WORK THAT MATTERS 2027<\/a><\/div>\n
FROM FRAGMENTS INTO FORM 2027<\/a><\/div>\n
RECLAIMING VOICE 2027<\/a><\/div>\n
NEW! CERTIFICATE IN EMBODIED THEATRE PRACTICE<\/a><\/div>\n
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Rachel has had a huge influence on my journey as an actor and movement director. I am lucky to have met her at the beginning of my career, and she unlocked many mental and physical blocks for me through her physical and voice work. If you are looking to develop your craft as a performer, then I highly recommend taking part and in her workshops. Her natural ability to create an inclusive space in which she fosters discovery is second to none. I have been relying on Rachel\u2019s approach for twenty years in order to feel more playful, present and connected as an actor. \u2028Under Rachel\u2019s guidance you feel seen and supported always.\u2028<\/em><\/em> Liam Lane – Actor & Movement Director <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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During my actor training Rachel was the first tutor who made me feel recognised and worthy. I think she made every student feel like this. She was able to tap into the young talent and cultivate it. She transformed the course and created a cohort of makers, experimenters and artists. You learn just by being with Rachel, but when she teaches, she gives so much. It is absorbed and radiates out of everyone she trains. If you are interested in developing, exploring and growing as a theatre maker, devisor or artist take her course.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rebekah Caputo \u2013 Puppet Maker, Actor & Director of Theatre Animisme <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


\nRachel is an exceptional theatre educator and truly the best at what she does. She has changed my life in ways I never expected. Her passion is inspiring, and she always reminded me that my voice mattered. Her professionalism, kindness, bravery, and creativity mean more to me that words could ever express. Because of her, theatre became a safe place where I could truly express myself. I am forever grateful for this journey. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.\u2028 <\/em> Afsoon – Theatre Student <\/strong><\/div>\n

\nNot only are Rachel’s courses engaging and inspirational, but her way of teaching through sound and movement is truly unique and long-lasting. I keep discovering more and more about my artistry long after the course has ended.
\n<\/em> Jonne Putkonen \u2013 Musician & Performer <\/strong><\/div>\n
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The workshop was a deeply inspiring experience and offered a rare sense of openness and safety for artistic exploration. Rachel\u2019s strong personal investment, warmth, and dedication created a working environment where trust, curiosity, and artistic risk-taking could genuinely unfold. Through her engaged and generous approach, Rachel continuously encouraged us to find and trust our own voices and creative power as theatre makers and performers. Her ability to hold space for both individual needs and the collective process was central to the group\u2019s development, and it had a meaningful impact on my own artistic growth. It provided me with valuable tools and perspectives that I will carry forward in my ongoing practice.<\/em><\/p>\n

Camilla Steine – Director & Theatre Maker<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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\nOBJECT & PERFORMER
\n7 & 8 November 2026
\nwith Ewa Kaczmarek & Rachel Karafistan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Transform the way you tell stories. Join us for a weekend of playful exploration into the creative potential of objects in performance. At the heart of Rachel and Ewa\u2019s award-winning solo shows, objects become characters, storytellers, and worlds in themselves. Through hands-on exercises and creative experimentation, you\u2019ll discover how to integrate objects into your own theatre-making practice and unlock new possibilities for performance.<\/p>\n

Event Details:<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Dates: 7 & 8 November 2026
\n\u2022 Time: 10:00 \u2013 17:00 (CEST Europe time)
\n\u2022 Location: Republika Sztuki T\u0142usta Langusta, Pozna\u0144, PL<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Cost: 95\u20ac \/ 65\u20ac for residents of Pozna\u0144<\/p>\n

EWA KACZMAREK (she\/ her)<\/strong>
\nActress, playwright, and theatre director. Laureate of the 2024 City of Pozna\u0144 Artistic Award (as a long-time member of the experimental ensemble Teatr Usta Usta Republika). She has received numerous distinctions, including awards in the National Competition for the Staging of Contemporary Polish Drama, the Modjeska Calling Shakespeare Monologue Competition, and the Prospero\u2019s Book Award at the Gda\u0144sk Shakespeare Festival.
\nKaczmarek is a three-time scholarship holder of the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage (including the prestigious \u201cYoung Poland\u201d scholarship) and a scholarship recipient of the Marshal of the Greater Poland Voivodeship. For over two decades, she has co-created Teatr Usta Usta Republika, while since 2013 she has been developing her own artistic projects under the pseudonym Laura Leish, focusing on documentary theatre and women\u2019s narratives. Her works are marked by an experimental stage language, emotional depth, and courage to address difficult topics \u2013 such as memory, war, female identity, and forgotten histories. Drawing on authentic archival sources \u2013 letters, postcards, testimonies \u2013 she creates performances that are both deeply personal and socially engaged: intense, conscious, and artistically uncompromising.<\/p>\n

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DEFINING YOUR PRACTICE AS A THEATRE MAKER
\nOnline Course – 4 weeks
\nJanuary 2027
\nwith Rachel Karafistan<\/strong>
\nplus a 60 min online session to be arranged with each individual participant<\/p>\n

MAKE THE WORK THAT MATTERS<\/strong> is a four-week online workshop for theatre makers who want to deepen, redefine, and energise their creative practice. Led by award winning theatre maker Rachel Karafistan with over 35 years of professional experience, the course offers a focused space to reflect on your work, connect with fellow artists, and explore what truly drives your making. Through carefully designed exercises in writing, meditation, movement, and song, participants are supported to extend their professional practice and create work with purpose and impact. The course also includes a one-to-one online session, offering personalised guidance to help you clarify your artistic direction and fulfil your creative potential.<\/p>\n

Event Details:<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Dates: Sundays 10, 17, 24, 31 January 2027
\n\u2022 Time: 11:00 \u2013 13:00 (CEST Europe time)
\n\u2022 Location: Online via Zoom
\n\u2022 Level: theatre makers at any stage in their career looking to shake up their practice<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Cost: 150EUR (4 group online sessions plus one individual 60 min sessions)<\/p>\n

The time we spent with Rachel felt like a gift to artists who are still searching for their voice, their path, and their words, and to those who have already found that voice but are still learning to trust it. There are questions that never stop following us, and struggles we refuse to leave behind. This workshop was the most generous and welcoming space to think, read, and move together as we searched for ways to bring our questions onto the stage.<\/i>
Gamze G\u00fczel, Actor & Theatre Director<\/strong><\/p>\n

The course happened at the very best time for me and it was exactly what I needed. It is a great opportunity to connect with fellow artists from around the world and get to know their practice. Rachel is a great facilitator, giving equal space for learning, sharing and one to one chats.<\/i>
Mahshid Alavi, Performance Artist & Filmmaker <\/strong><\/p>\n

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As part of ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL OF THEATRE – TEATR \u00d3SMEGO DNIA
\nwhat theatre do you want to make?
\nwith Rachel Karafistan<\/p>\n

FROM FRAGMENTS INTO FORM<\/strong> is an intensive for those who wish to unearth the stories that live beneath the surface, through the body, through voice and through the shared pulse of creativity. Guided by exercises that awaken both the physical and the poetic self, we\u2019ll trace imagined journeys, inhabit forgotten spaces, and give form to the fragments that call for expression. Together, we\u2019ll ask: What makes a beginning sing? What truth waits at the end? What lives and breathes in the middle ground between them?
\nUnder the guidance of Rachel Karafistan, an award-winning director, performer and teacher with over 35 years of professional experience in creating original theatre for the stage, this workshop invites you to make, to fail, to find and to celebrate each moment of discovery. From raw impulse to crafted scene, from private vision to shared performance, we\u2019ll explore how ideas become theatre. How does a piece speak to its audience or community? How do we listen, as performer, as director, for what the work itself wants to become?
\nThrough improvisation, play, and reflection, we\u2019ll uncover new ways of shaping material, reimagining stories, and working with others with curiosity and care.<\/p>\n

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RECLAIMING VOICE:<\/strong>
\nVoice, Song and Embodied Expression
\nWith Patrick Campbell & Rachel Karafistan
\nAs part of ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL OF THEATRE – TEATR \u00d3SMEGO DNIA<\/p>\n

Join Patrick Campbell, co-author (with Margaret Pikes) of Owning Our Voices: Vocal Discovery in the Wolfsohn-Hart Tradition, and Rachel Karafistan, theatre-maker and passionate voice facilitator trained by Frankie Armstrong, for a dive into the expressive landscape of your voice.
\nRooted in the Wolfsohn-Hart approach to extended voice and the philosophy and principles of the Natural Voice Network, this practical and experiential workshop explores the full spectrum of human sound, from pre-verbal sounding to song, through movement, breath, and embodied imagination.
\nWe will work with the Vocal Sources, psychosomatic centres along the spine, awakening different vocal timbres and resonances through focused exploration. Participants will engage with creative vocal stimuli, designed to spark authentic vocal expression and free the natural voice.
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\n\u2022 Reconnect breath, body, and voice in a grounded and playful way
\n\u2022 Move from pre-verbal sound into rich vocal textures, text, and song
\n\u2022 Develop confidence in your own vocality, its power, nuance, and emotional truth
\n\u2022 Discover where the rhythms of the body meet the rhythms of voice
\n\u2022 Explore collective sounding and the liberating possibilities of vocal improvisation<\/p>\n

This workshop is open to all levels of experience, though familiarity with theatre, dance, or singing will be helpful. We are all born with open, expressive voices, but over time, life shapes, stifles, or scatters them. To reclaim the voice is to reclaim power. This workshop invites you to listen inwardly, act authentically, and uncover the sounds and songs that live inside you. Whether you’re a performer, artist, educator, or simply curious, come prepared to move, sound, and sing!<\/p>\n

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NEW! COSMINO THEATRE CERTIFICATE IN EMBODIED THEATRE PRACTICE 2026\/7<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are currently working with our partners in Poland to offer the opportunity to gain a certificate in EMBODIED THEATRE PRACTICE<\/strong> when you complete six intensives from the following programme:<\/p>\n