TMAT Session 7 - Devising through Surrealism with dkfash

" Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu's brand of storytelling is enchanting and captivating" - Selina Jones, Actress (HBO's Raised by Wolves)

Overview

TELL ME A TALE is a course for any person who is interested in developing their skills in telling stories live

This includes but is not limited to :

• Actors

• Poets

• Performers (Singers, Rappers, Dancers etc.)

• Orators (Public Speakers, Managers, Youth Mentors, Preachers etc.)

• Anyone interested in storytelling or performing!

Storytellers will work with Olivier nominated director and theatremaker , Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu and a number of special guests, will lead you through 8 fun, energetic and revelatory sessions that will teach you how to use energy, intention, comprehension and imagination to become a better storyteller.

This session

This Session with with multidisciplinary creative dkfash , Founder of Initiative.dkf , will experiment with new devising techniques to create new stories as an ensemble.

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to utilise new forms of theatre to create surreal stories and interesting theatrical worlds.

Want more?

This session is part of collection for the 2024 Course which can be viewed here.

This includes

Session 1: Imagination, Improvisation & Purposeful Storytelling

Session 2: Character Creation & Multi-Rolling

Session 3: Text, Analysis and Audience

Session 4: Story Structure & Writing

Session 5: Storytelling through voice & song with John Pfumojena

Session 6: Storytelling in Movement and Dance with Theo O. Bailey

Session 7: Devising through Surrealism with dkfash

Session 8: Live Lab

Storytellers can either drop in to one session or do all 8 for a discount! By the end of each workshop, you will be able to utilise and recall core storytelling skills that can be adapted to whatever walk of life you need.

In addition, you will be lead in a safe, supportive and spirited space where you will connect with like-minded people & grow! You can be a professional or enthusiast, all are welcome and all will develop.

"T his is where practice makes better. Left with so much understanding and the whole experience was joyful" - Charity Muiruri , Actor & Youtube Influencer

About Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu

Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu is an award-winning Theatremaker with 10 years’ experience in creating theatre works for the British Stage. He has worked with spaces such as The Young Vic, National Theatre, Bush Theatre and am associate artists of The Gate Theatre and Brixton House.

In 2019, Tristan won the JMK Award for the revival of Little Baby Jesus by Arinze Kene. In 2022, he won the award for Best Director (alongside Ryan Calais-Cameron) at the Black British Theatre Awards and was nominated for an OIivier for Best Production & Best Supporting Cast for the West End hit " For Black Boys by Ryan Calais Cameron." His casts have won The Stage Debut Awards twice (2019 and 2022) and was nominated for Most Promising Playwright at the Offies in 2018.

About dkfash

dkfash is an interdisciplinary artist working across stage, film and entertainment. Her instinctual practice explores storytelling; through text, physical theatre, chorus, surrealism, and devising.

Work includes:

Director & Writer - Is Dat U Yh? (Brixton Hse), All The Things (Arts Ed), Fragments Of A Complicated Mind (Theatre 503) and Scalped (Without Walls National Tour). Movement Direction - Hot Wing King (National Theatre), Much Ado (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (Royal Exchange Manchester), Lava (Bush Theatre), Othello (NYTRep), Little Baby Jesus (Orange Tree Theatre) Actress Stage work; Bootycandy (Gate theatre), Much Ado (Royal Shakespeare Company), Ile La Wa (Stratford Circus) and Muscovado (UK National Tour - Winner of Alfred Fagon Audience Award ’15)

She is a Studio Wayne McGregor Resident 6 Artist 2024 and the Artistic Director of Initiative.dkf (Eclipse Award Winners 21, Albany Theatre’s 20-21 Artists of change & Tamasha Associate artists 19-20)

Trailer by Jack Matthew, Photos and Video by Salim Sai, Music by Khalil Madhovi