Tessa Marie Luminati is co-facilitator at The Thursday Group. She has been a collaborator for four years and is a performer with a strong commitment to regular training and exploration of new forms of practice development and performance making. In the Monday sessions, Suzuki Method of Actor Training, Grotowski, M. Chekhov and Thursday Group variations are synthesised. Tessa is creating bridges between improvisational practice experimentations and performance-making.
Photo: Oscar Socias, Orpheo Machine
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The Monday Sessions are a dialogue for performers interested in psychophysical techniques. Using various disciplines of actor training such as Suzuki Training, Grotowski, Stanislavski, Chekhov and variations developed on the floor, we keep our skills sharp and improvise new performance material.
With Matthew Crosby facilitating, during each ten-week block, we co-devise a performance and show work to friends and peers at The Thursday Group studios in North Melbourne.
Come join the conversation.
Come join the conversation.
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Mondays: 6-9pm, North Melbourne
Rates for 2024: 10-week $250; 5-week $150; per-session $35
Rates for 2024: 10-week $250; 5-week $150; per-session $35
Book a ten-week block here.
If you're coming for the first time, please get in touch for an info sheet.
If you're coming for the first time, please get in touch for an info sheet.
If you're coming for a one-off session, pease get in touch.
Annual Intensive: January 2025 - get in touch!
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Touch Improvisation 2023. Monday Sessions will present Falling Heads, a response to Akutagawa Ryunosuke's The Story of a Head that Fell Off November 25 and December 11.
with Damon Branecki | Peter B | Tessa Marie Luminati | Angelique Zhou | Photos: Matthew Crosby
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Arthur Boyd Nebukuchadnezzar Improvisations 2022
with Damon Branecki| Tulipa Rodriguez-Quinn | Tessa Marie Luminati | Angelique Zhou
with Damon Branecki| Tulipa Rodriguez-Quinn | Tessa Marie Luminati | Angelique Zhou
Photos: Matthew Crosby