Masterclass with Complicité
We are delighted to announce as part of Theatre Works Fest NI, our favourite theatre company, Complicité will be coming to Belfast to hold a three day Masterclass hosted by Joyce Henderson.
This three-day workshop led by Complicité, invites artists to come together and during the course of the workshop start building an ensemble through physical training and play. You will encounter games and exercises that have grown from Complicité’s practices. The work will increase participants’ awareness and sensitivity to the communicative power that lies in the relationship between the performer, movement, theatrical space and physical expression, before exploring how to use this work as a creative tool to tell rich imaginative stories to audiences.
Joyce Henderson is a Movement Practitioner and Performer who studied with Lecoq and has been an associate of Complicité since 1992, performing in productions including The Street of Crocodiles and The Magic Flute. Teaching movement, she has worked on productions including: The Importance of Being Earnest (National Theatre/West End), Bleak Expectations & Noises Off (West End), Amédée (Birmingham Rep) and The Marriage of Figaro (Aix). In 2012, she was a movement assistant on the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games.
In 2024, Joyce directed The Frogs with Spymonkey and previously worked with Julie Cunningham and Company.
As an actor, for theatre: The Impresario (Buxton Festival), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Holland Park), Medea (West End & Broadway), Volpone & The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (National Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Cherry Orchard (Birmingham Rep) and Flight to Finland with The Right Size. For film: Benediction, Suffragette, The Queen, Burke and Hare, Stella Does Tricks and About a Boy.
Alongside the Lecoq pedagogy, Joyce likes The Feldenkrais Method of movement education integrating the body, mind, biomechanics and play.
Booking Details
Participants for this workshop are chosen through an application process. This is open to all arts practitioners and forpeople who are interested in learning more about Complicité's style of work. To show interest and request an application form please contact admin@amadanensemble.com Closing date for the application is 12th December. Three half price bursaries are available for residents within Northern Ireland, details of how to apply for this will be stated in the application form.
Venue - The MAC, Belfast
Date - 10th - 12th January 2026
Time - 10am - 5pm each day
Price - £160
