Offthe_Page Community
a non-profit community arts group
Acting, Movement, and Singing Workshops for adults with little or no experience
any age
M A I N T A I N I N G
health and well-being through creativity
E N C O U R A G I N G
community arts / communication / one another
JESSICA ANGEL AND LUANDA PAU
Jessica Angel and Luanda Pau are London-based dance artists. Jessica has an MA in Creative Practice from Trinity Laban Conservatoire and brings a multi-disciplinary approach, working with movement, text, and image. Luanda trained at the Escuela Nacional de Arte (ENA) in Havana and specialised in Afro-Cuban Folk dance.
Jessica and Luanda have collaborated over the last five years working on multi-disciplinary projects. They are currently creating a performance that brings together dance, text, and image - and explores the body as a juncture for the everyday, the sublime, and science.
13th of February 2022
Movement Workshop
GIOVANNA RUMMA
"I began singing technique at the age of 16 and I have the Licence of Certified Master Teacher in Voice Training. I spent my last ten years studying my voice and its connection with dance, acting, feelings emotions, body, and spirit. So I worked to know other techniques like Alexander Technique, participating in various workshops about acting, voice, and movement"
20th of February 2022
13th of March 2022
3rd of April 2022
Voice Workshop
EVA EKLOF MORKESET
"I have a lot of experience as a workshop leader, working both with actors and with non-professionals. I also have done a lot of interdisciplinary work, for instance I taught nine years in an art school where all the work in my classes was a combination between disciplines; art, movement, writing, theatre and music."
27th of February 2022
24th of April 2022
Acting Workshop
CARLOS CORTES
Carlos Cortes has worked at the international level for more than 25 years. After a career as a professional dancer, his practice developed through Visual Arts, Choreography/Direction, and Theatre Design. His award-winning work has been performed, exhibited, and published in several European countries and the USA.
Carlos has a strong interest in landscape, architecture, and participatory issues. With a broad experience of site-specific projects, his work investigates how people engage with their physical environment and with each other through movement and visual arts.
6th of March 2022
Performance Workshop
JULIE HAVELUND-WILLETT
Julie is a Danish Dance Artist based in Brighton. Her work spans choreography, performance, dramaturgy, and facilitation. She creates both solo work and, most often, in collaboration with others.
All of Julie's work and research are inspired by her background in contemporary dance, aerial circus, acrobatics, somatic practices, and dance theatre.
Recurring themes in her work include inversions, multi-media, perspective, play, site-specificity, and spontaneity.
She has performed extensively in the UK, Italy, and Nordic countries, and taught across wide groups of people from families, to students, to professional dancers at places including Battersea Arts Centre Uffizi Gallery, The Place, V&A, and many more.
20th of March 2022
Movement Workshop
MARK DUNCAN
Mark trained in acting and directing at East 15, Birmingham school of Acting, Bretton Hall, The International school of Corporeal Mime, Sélavy Actors Centre and Stage Internazionale di Commedia dell’Arte.
As founder, performer and artistic director of Cornucopia Theatre and co-founder of Dragonfly Mime Theatre, X Moves the Bass Dance Theatre and Faceless Co, he has been creating and touring internationally with mask theatre, mime and carnivalesque performance for over thirty years. Mark has acted in numerous films, for BBC television and a string of theatre companies.
27th of March 2022
Acting Workshop
GAVIN SAVILLE
Gavin is a conservation scientist turned filmmaker. Once behind the camera, his role has been to translate complex concepts from clients like NASA'S Astrobiology Institute, the United Nations Environment Programme, to numerous charities, right through to live entertainment theatrical trailers for London's theatreland including the iconic Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap. His switch to the narrative is ongoing. He is an experienced Lighting DoP, Director, Producer, and Writer. He is also the director of Wild Indie, the director of Wild Indie Scifi & Fantasy Film Festival, and an instructor in historical martial arts (sword, spears, etc).
10th of April 2022
Acting / Filming Workshop
AGNE SOMATICAS (Siauciunaite)
Agne is a London-based arts practitioner, Creative Director of Offthe_Page Creative Practice, and dance artist from Lithuania. Graduated from UEL with honors 'Community Arts Practice', participated in numerous community-based projects, and worked on various TV and Entertainment projects. Agne searches for inspiration from already existing and new emerging movement practices along with other art forms such as site-specific, filmmaking, and theatre.
She is currently part of the 'Year of Making' artistic residency, working on her professional dance and creative practice: Authentic Me. Her research focuses on individual journeys, feelings, and emotions. Exploring different ways how to hear what our bodies tell us. Inspired by somatic practices and the ability to access deep connections within our body and mind by using voice and movement
1st of May 2022
Movement Workshop
GARF REES-WELLS
Founder of Offthe_Page Creative Practice. Graduating from UEL theatre, writing & directing Gareth continues to explore the arts in the TV Film stage and production as an actor and supporting artist, and production assistant featuring & working on over 200 different TV series, films, and adverts, corporate films, and internet broadcasts.
Keen to continue his involvement in the industry with a craving to direct he was invited to join the Directors Cut at Southwark Playhouse where
he participated in 4 terms as a credited director.
His latest role-playing Sergeant Roberts in a recent nationwide odeon cinemas release short 'Lock Off' by Akwasi Poku
10th of April & 8th of May 2022
Acting Workshops