Name: PHYSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOP (Arman Kupelyan & Taro Troupe)
Start: 2025-11-23T10:00:00+01:00
Location: Londýnska 55

PHYSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOP (Arman Kupelyan & Taro Troupe)

Finally announcing what Arman Kupelyan (@kekelzpekel666) and I (Taro Troupe, @tarotroupe) have been preparing for the last few months!
Starting in November we will have a series of 10 workshops of Physical Theatre, around the topics of 'Physical Theater Basics' and 'Physical Comedy/Introduction to Clown'.
The workshops will be taught to a closed group, every Sunday from 23rd of November to 1st of February.
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Step into the world of Physical Theatre in this dynamic workshop, designed to unlock your creative potential and enhance the expresivity of your body. Whether you're a seasoned performer or new to the stage, this workshop will guide you through the essentials of physical storytelling.
What to Expect:
- Movement exploration and theatrical basics: Discover how your body can convey emotions, ideas, and characters, using physicality as your main tool of expression. We will work on 'pre-expresivity', as a previous step before embodying a character or persona.
- Games, group exercises and Improvs: Participate in exercises that build group dynamics, foster creativity, and sharpen your physical awareness.
- Finding comicness and authenticity: Explore how humor naturally emerges from our bodies and personalities through contemporary clown techniques. We will use our vulnerability, imperfection, playfulness and silliness as tools to create and maintain connection with the audience and generate comedy through being an honest version of ourselves.
- Creation process: get in touch with tools to generate material without the goal of producing a final performance, but rather to enhance personal discovery.

A little about us:

Taro Troupe is a theatre maker and dancer based in Czech Republic. Currently working with Nhung&kol, Spitfire Company and Losers Circus Company. He also works as a movement theatre and circus pedagogue in Prague.
His approach to the stage and pedagogy is marked by the focus on the body as the main tool of expression, as he is influenced by the works of Eugene Barba, Ethienne Decroux and Schinca Method© of Laban Technique.
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Arman Kupelyan is an Armenian actor, clown, theatre maker, and pedagogue based in Prague. He combines contemporary clowning with butō dance in his artistic practice, and has created solo butō-clown performances with his team: Playground of the Unconscious Self (2021) and Chuck My Life (2024).
He has collaborated with theatre groups such as BodyVoiceBand, Wariot Ideal, and Dočasná Company, and since 2025 he has been a member of Špatné Divadlo.
Since 2022 he is working as a hospital clown with the organization Zdravotní Klaun. From 2025 he also teaches at the Prague Conservatory.
Graduated from HAMU Nonverbal Theatre, he developed his craft through numerous workshops and masterclasses with leading international artists, where he explored different styles of clowning and physical comedy, studying with teachers such as Aitor Basauri, Jos Houben, Peter Shub, Ami Hattab, Thomas Monckton and others.
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The daily schedule will be:
SUNDAYS
10:00-12:30 First half of the Workshop
12:30-13:30 Lunch Break
13.30-16:00 Second half of the Workshop
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📝 Registration here: https://forms.gle/pMH3KjokD8PZV1GMA
🏷 Price: 8.000 czk / 6.500 czk (student discount)
📍 Location: Londýnská 674/55. Praha 2 - Vinohrady, located in between metro stations Náměstí Míru and I.P. Pavlova
📅 Dates: every Sunday 10:00-16:00 (1h break for lunch), starting on 23.11 and finishing on 01.02. (Winter holiday - no workshop on 28.12.2025)