Weekend Classes 2024
WORKSHOPS
Directing and Creation Tools 
/ with Chloe Pisco (2025)
Come learn directing and a whole bunch of creation tools for circus, dance and physical theatre.
This is a 3 hour, highlights only, version of the 3 month full time professional directing course created by Chloé as a commission for the Dept of Arts and Culture in Western Australia.
She has been obsessed with collecting and sharing knowledge over the last 24 years and has amassed a list that is hundreds of creation tools long.
Whether you wish to make circus from text, or text / narrative / just meaning from circus. Whether you wish to abstract all narratives and work with pure form and aesthetic – in this workshop :
you will get a smorgasbord tasters of a super broad range of approaches to directing.
You will understand dramaturgy and choreoturgy.
Also working with group physical and human emotion directing, leading large casts and solos.
As well as how to craft and invite: powerful, evocative performances from the artists that you work with.
Looking at your duty of care is as a director, with respect to acknowledging power dynamics, co-creation and IP, colonial extractive systems seeping into the arts, and the roles in imbalance.
Ideas on how to redress those imbalanced roles, while safeguarding your contributing artists and their physical and mental health, through your processes… But most of all how to create a fun playful generative and abundant space for creative liberation for all of you.
Stage Makeup
/ with Lucinda B. Hind (2025)
Makeup Workshop: Bold & Dramatic Stage Looks for Performers – with Lucinda B.Hind!
Step into the world of high-impact stage makeup with Lucinda B. Hind (aka Lulu Vincent), a creative director, performer, and producer, who will guide you through the process of creating bold, dramatic looks that stand out on stage. This workshop is perfect for anyone in performance arts—whether you’re into drag, burlesque, circus, or aerial —and it will teach you how to use makeup to elevate your stage presence.
What You’ll Learn:
Contouring: Master the art of shaping the face to create striking, powerful looks that will make you pop under the stage lights.
Colors & Shape: Discover how to use color & shape to complement your unique style and the lighting of your performance, creating a flawless visual impact.
Makeup Techniques & Tricks: Learn tips and tricks for creating makeup that stays bold and beautiful throughout physically demanding performances.
While the workshop has a focus on drag makeup, the techniques taught are easily adaptable to other performance styles like burlesque, circus, and aerial arts. This isn’t just about makeup—it’s about helping you develop a stronger stage presence and confidence that will shine through in every performance.
About Your Instructor:
Lucinda B. Hind, also known as Lulu Vincent, is a non-binary, queer artist with a diverse background in drag, burlesque, circus, and theatre. With years of performance and creative direction experience, Lucinda has worked with prestigious events like Wintergarten in Berlin and the Zurich Burlesque Festival. As an aerial circus artist, Lucinda has a deep understanding of how makeup needs to stand up to the physicality of intense performances.
Lucinda’s workshops are a celebration of bold, unapologetic self-expression, and they offer you the opportunity to enhance your artistic skills and confidence.
Workshop Details:
Duration: 2.5 hours of hands-on learning and creative exploration
What to Bring: Please bring your own makeup kit (recommended list provided), Lucinda will also bring additional colorful paints, eyeshadows, and glitters to add some extra fun and creativity!
Train Like a Girl*
/ with Helen Keenan (2025)
NOTE: The contents of this workshop deals with the menstrual cycle. While the workshop will aim to use the term “people who menstruate”, there may be use of the term “women”. This is not intended to exclude participants who menstruate who do not identify as women. We know that not all women have menstrual cycles, and not only women have menstrual cycles. Trans and non-binary people are equally welcome. This workshop is also suitable for anyone who teaches / coaches/ trains people with menstrual cycles in any physical discipline.
*The name of the workshop comes from the work of Dr. Mindy Pelz and is not meant to contradict the above.
Have you ever wondered why sometimes you don’t feel like training? The times you really want to be creative, you know how bad ass you can be, but there’s still something going on where your body just says “no”!
Well, I’m here to tell you that you’re not lazy, crazy or otherwise! The chemistry just isn’t right – literally!
In this workshop, we will dive into the best time in your cycle to tap into your intuition and creativity, the best time to go balls to the wall with your training and creation, and the crucial few days of your cycle where you should prioritise rest and avoid putting your body and mind through new material or training programs. This is such a key insight for injury prevention too!
This workshop looks at the menstruating body in the context of training, healing, creativity, eating and fasting, through the lens of your hormonal system.
Discover the best times to tune into your inner superpowers and the times you need to take your foot off the pedal for a bit. This matters more than you know!
This workshop is part lecture, part practical; with practical tasks involving discussion, reflection, visualisation and journalling. It is a golden opportunity to tap into the science of menstrual biology (without being a bore and feeling like school!), and how it can help you as an artist to thrive in every aspect of your training, creativity, and general living.
This workshop is essentially a masterclass in YOU, because when you leave this workshop, you will have such clarity and such a deep insight into the inner workings of your body, whether you are a cycling person, or whether you are peri-menopausal or post menopausal.
This workshop provides the gold dust that you need to truly become a force to be reckoned with, working WITH your body, with your hormones, and leveraging your biology to help elevate your artistry. It’s all connected – you better believe it!!
I am beyond thrilled to be one of Ireland’s first ‘Fast Like a Girl’ coaches, the training of which, helps people to fully understand their body and their hormonal profiles so that they can truly thrive in life, and literally live better in their body. This includes how you sync training, food types, sleep priority and even switching metabolic systems (we actually have two!!), so that you can behold the absolute magic that transpires when you honour your bodies natural rhythms.
When practically applied, this knowledge is utterly transformational for physical and mental health, peak performance and even fertility, potentially reducing the risks of the likes of PCOS and autoimmune disorders – the list is endless!
Knowledge is power. If you give yourself one gift this year, let it be that! This information will serve you a lifetime. That is a promise!
I’m already so excited to get started, and hope you can join me jumping on board the ‘Train Like a Girl’ wagon!! You won’t regret it!! Choo Choo!! 🚂
Hair Hanging Talk
/ with Nicole Malbeuf (2025)
Debunking Hair Suspension Myths: Rethinking Our Approach to Hair Hang
Are you curious about the newly popular discipline of hair suspension? Are there rumours you’ve heard that make you concerned or of the belief that it’s only for select people? In this talk, Nicole will share her personal experiences, research and conversations with other practicing artists to elaborate on the common misconceptions in hair suspension and to expose more nuanced truths.
We’ll discuss suitable hair types, prerequisites, expected physical sensations, progressing towards self-suspension, industry needs and hair damage. Whether you are interested in hair health or are a prospective student, a producer or a studio owner, this talk will teach you about many of the specific needs of- and common experiences in hair suspension.
There will be time for questions at the end. This is not a physical workshop, purely talking.
CLASSES
Aerial Burlesque
/ with Emma D’Lemma (2025)
The art of the tease— in the air!
We will go over some beginner-intermediate friendly movements on silks, sling, and lyra and how to make them burlesque. There will also be a short talk about performance, stage presence, is it funny or sexy or both, and some history.
Be sure to wear a comfortable under layer that you will keep on, and feel free to bring any thigh high socks/ stockings, undies, bras, or anything you deem easy to remove to this class! I will also bring some things to share.
Prerequisites: some aerial experience preferred
Spin Lab
/ with Kat Doherty (2025)
Join me for this 90-minute spinning lab on aerial straps! If you don’t love spinning, but you want to love spinning (or, you already love it but want to work on your technique!), we’ll spend this time talking about how we condition our vestibular systems (for those who struggle with spinning faster and longer); and increasing speed and endurance for 1-arm and 2-arm spinning. Time permitting, we’ll explore some accessible straps vocabulary that requires fast, strong spins (starting from flares as a foundation, up to inverted 1-arm positions).
Folks taking this workshop should be comfortable being weight-bearing on straps (on one arm or two arms) for at least thirty seconds or so!
Hoops Spins & Flares
/ with Kat Doherty (2024)
This hoop class does exactly what it says on the tin: spinning and flares.