Monday Sessions

Suzuki Method of Actor Training, Grotowski impulse work, Michael Chekhov, ongoing improvisation exploration and Thursday Group variations… we offer a dialogue in ongoing actor practice … come join the conversation 🎈

Co-facilitator and Monday Session leader, Tessa Marie Luminati

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, 2022

∞Mondays: 6-9pm, North Melbourne
∞Rates for 2025: 10-week $250; 5-week $150; per-session $35; observation $15

∞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 Tessa Marie Luminati facilitating, during each ten-week block, we co-devise performance vocabulary. Our aim is to show work to invited guests at the end of the year at The Thursday Group studios in North Melbourne.

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