Playspace Studio is a physical theatre studio, based in Newtown, Sydney, Australia since 1998. 

 

Playspace is run by Alan Clay, who has taught at Actors Centre Australia for the past eight years, including a period as Course Programmer. Alan has over 20 years experience in physical theatre, clown, circus, and street theatre, since first attending a clown school in Sweden in 1977. In 1999 he performed his solo show, Love & Chaos at festivals in Holland and Austria - including the ‘Festival of Modern Clown’ in Amsterdam – his ninth European tour. Alan has published two novels, and his latest is Believers in Love. Alan teaches clown, tightrope, juggling, circus theatre and acting on the training programs.

Richard James Allen is a performer who’s text and dance driven performance and video works, as co-artistic director of ‘That Was First’, have been presented in the United States, Europe and Australia. During 1995-96 he was co-artistic director of Tasdance in Tasmania. Richard recently co-edited an anthology of Australian performance texts Performing the Unnamable published by Currency Press. He teaches astanga yoga on the circus and clown training programs.

Gavin Robins completed a bachelor of arts (drama), a graduate diploma of education and is currently doing his Master of Art at Kelvin Grove Queensland University of Technology. After completing the Movement Studies course at N.I.D.A which honed his dance and drama skills into a physical theatre genre, Gavin joined Legs On The Wall and in 1997 toured 'All Of Me' to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, in 1997 he toured to the UK, Ireland and Germany and most recently he has performed and toured in Under the Influence. Gavin is also experienced in teaching and has worked with the Queensland Theatre Company as a movement tutor. During 1999 Gavin was movement consultant for Bell Shakespeare Company, Henry V and co-recipient of the Mike Walsh Fellowship. Gavin teaches acrobatics on the Circus training program.

Aimee Thomas draws the basis of her teaching from her dance and theatre training. She studied BA in Educational Theatre in Adelaide before moving to Melbourne where she trained at Circus Oz for 1 year. She was awarded a Queens Trust Grant and a Youth Development Grant to study at 'Circomedia - school of physical theatre' in Bristol, England, and then worked in a variety of both traditional and new circus, opera, and physical theatre companies, over three years working in England, France, Germany, Switzerland and America. Since returning to Sydney she has founded the Sydney Aerial Theatre Association through which she teaches, as well as teaching aerial skills on the circus training program.

 

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Last updated 10th June 2002

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