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Mysteries 2003

Helen Tennison LLAM Hons

Artistic Director Bare Feat Theatre

People

 
 

Directing and teaching experience

1999- 2002

Direction and Devising

Two summer school adaptations of The Tempest and Romeo and Juliet; for adults with profound learning disabilities at The Croxley Project. 1999 Also Grease 2001 and Beach 2002.

2002

Hertfordshire Theatre School

Introduction to Restoration Theatre, four day workshop for first year students

2001-2002

Director / Devisor

Cabbages, solo show based on the secret vegetables of Shakespeare's Queen Margaret. The Kings Head and Colleges, together with a workshop Physical Shakespeare. Bare Feat Theatre

2001

Physical Theatre

Exploratory workshops for professionals researching the use of repetition and motifs within physical theatre, Bare Feat Theatre.

2001

Assistant Director/resident movement director

with Richard Williams and Sam Spencer-Lane
Life on Mars Legoland, Denmark

2000 -2001

LSW's Outreach Project

Taking Shakespeare into Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions.

2000

Director /Workshop leader

Turn Back Time Millennium Youth project, Horsham Arts Centre residency

1999-2000

Assistant Director / Devisor

Someone Has Been Disarranging These Roses, based on the short stories of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Bare Feat Theatre tour

1999

Vocal Coach

After Everything, Lucy May Dance Theatre, Newcastle Playhouse.

1999

Movement Director

The Cage Birds, North London Student Drama Festival

1999

Drama/Mime workshops

Jameson Aboriginal Community, Western Australia

1999 & 2001

Director

Icebound, Bare Feat Theatre, visual solo show for Sprint Festival 1999 and Octoberfest 2001

1998

Director / Devisor

Red,a gothic rite based on Little Red Riding Hood, Bare Feat Theatre, London tour

1994-98

Teaching

South Thames College, (students aged 16-40), NVQ Performing Arts Course Design and Project writing. Teaching: A'Level Theatre Studies & BTEC Dance: Performance Workshop, Voice, Tutorials and directing shows.

1996 -

Teaching

Stagecoach, (students aged 6-16), since January 1996 and ongoing. Specializing in the LAMDA Verse &Prose and Acting exam syllabus, also drama, physical theatre, voice, text study, introduction to Shakespeare and devising end of term production. Other drama teaching includes work for The Sylvia Young Theatre School and private students.

1995

 

Tellers Theatre. Interactive Improv. theatre with workshops, community tour including prisons, youth clubs, day centres for people with disabilities, social clubs and retirement homes.

Training & Skills


LLAM Honours, LAMDA teacher training with Jacqueline Stoker LRAM.RAM.

 

 

Actors Institute Post Graduate acting study

Desmond Jones School of Mime & Physical Theatre

 

 

Redroofs Theatre School, Dance and Musical Theatre
Qualified Fitness Instructor (includes anatomy, safe practice and first aid).

BASSC certificate in armed and unarmed stage combat

 

 

Mask work / Improvisation / physical theatre / ballet, tap modern and contemporary dance(The Place & Laban Centre).

Courses with 'Teatre de Complicite', Guy Dartnoll, John Wright and Philippe Gaulier

 

Recent Performance Experience Includes

Interactive text advert for UK Gold channels' solo show based on the secret vegetables of Shakespeare's Queen Margaret, '...of cabbages and kings'


Rita in Educating Rita for the English Speaking Theatre of Copenhagen

Le Ballade en Trois Partis, contemporary dance tour of France

Milady D'Winter, The Three Musketeers, Covent Garden Open Air Theatre

Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at The cultural Palace, Romania.

Also shows at The Battersea Arts Centre, tours, various short films, videos, voice overs, festivals, tours, musicals, pantomime, young peoples theatre, cabaret, corporate entertainment, street theatre, physical theatre and dance.