For twenty–two years the International Workshop Festival has brought the world's most inspiring theatre makers to the UK to run workshops for all who are interested in exploring performance cultures, learning new skills, refreshing old ones, and creating new work. At the heart of our activity has been the annual London International Workshop Festival packed with workshops, demonstrations, performances and networking - a unique environment in which performance makers have come together to transform themselves, each other and the work they create.

Highlights of recent festivals have included Kwoto, a group of young dancers from the Displaced Peoples Camps of Khartoum; Falos & Stercus, the Brazilian fetish circus, challenging the boundaries of erotic performance; and from Finland, the fire performance collective Flamma. We have also run a year round programme of work to showcase and support emerging performance work. This has included work developed from workshops in the London Festival and work inspired from the Festival or coming out of collaborations nurtured in the Festival.


Some of the world's leading theatre makers who have been a part of the INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP FESTIVAL 1988–2009
 

Jacques Lecoq
Monika Pagneaux
Philippe Gaulier
Yoshi Oida
Mladen Materic
Enrique Pardo
Bread and Puppet
Anatoly Vasiliev
Lev Dodin
Germaine Acogny
Barney Simon
Gardzienice
Augusto Boal
Andrew Buckland & Lionel Newton
Koffi Koko
Andrei Serban
Paola Cavallin
Janice Perry
Manaia

Ni Made Pujawati
Andreas Knoop
Ramiro Silviera
Teatermaskinen
Fire Collectif
Flamma
Dessislava Stefanova
Kwoto
Segun Adelfila
Miss Indigo Blue
Mestre Carlao
Katsura Kan
Gina Pietsch
Yukie Shiroma
Monkey and the Waterfall
Vladimir Granov
Falos & Stercus
Sophiatou Kossoko
Lola Gasper

Seavping Nayting
Ana Tamen
Umzi Afrika
Nanzikambe
Bob Davidson
Annie Sprinkle
Elizabeth Stephens
John Fox
Dead Good Guides
Welfare State International
Tango Siempre
Snuff Puppets
Jo King
Fakir Musafar
Noël Grieg
Tso Po Lin
Ngati Ranana
Chen Lei
Katsura Kan


 

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