The Ensemble with Nadia Townsend

Course Overview

Ensemble is an ongoing practice (which runs in 6 week blocks), for professional actors who have already trained with Nadia. Two hours of physical and ensemble training to strengthen the muscles required to bring out the best in your work.  This is an extension of the one hour class warm up you would have done with Nadia in her classes. Delving deeper in to work that allows the actor to get more connected to voice, body and breath, follow impulses with confidence, as well as finding freedom in putting your attention outside of yourself.

Called ensemble practice because Nadia is interested in creating a core group of practitioners  with whom she can collaborate with on future film and theatre projects, via a short hand.  An ensemble who have a shared working methodology, a practice from which unique work has the possibility to emerge.

About Nadia Townsend

Nadia has been working as an actress in Australia and internationally for the last 17 years and more recently has become a much in demand dramaturg for film and television projects.  Nadia first trained with Atlantic Theatre Co in NYC then set up her own theatre company, producing independent theatre in Sydney.  She got her first TV gig on an ABC Ben Gannon production where she met long time mentor Nico Lathouris.  Nico ignited ideas and questions about drama that she has spent most of her adult life trying to answer.  

Nadia continues to train at the Roy Hart school of voice in France and with movement improvisor Tony Osborne.  Nadia has trained with US practitioners Ivana Chubbuck, Larry Moss, Ellen Burstyn.  The principles of Practical Aesthetics are still at the base of Nadia’s methodology but she has travelled the world to find practitioners and other practices from dance to marital arts that support and expand her ideas about the craft.