Monday 1 September – Rudzani Moleya

Bodily Archive invites you to step into an intimate exploration of self through movement and reflection. This workshop bridges the physical and the emotional, helping us uncover how the body holds, stores, and expresses our lived experiences.

Through improvised movement, voice, somatics, and reflective writing, you’ll be guided to connect with your body as a living archive—a vessel of memory, healing, and creativity. This is a space to pause, to feel, and to create from your past and present selves, without needing any prior movement or dance training.

In this workshop we will be exploring how touch echoes the body and the voice. Please wear clothes you feel comfortable moving in, bring a journal or paper, something to write with, and a water bottle.

Rudzani Moleya (They/She) is a multi-interdisciplinary performing artist, movement director, dramaturge and facilitator from South Africa. They trained at The Cape Academy of Performing Arts (Cape Town) , where they graduated with a distinction. . As a performer they have performed at The National Arts Festival in Grahamstown(South Africa), Brixton House(UK), The Roundhouse(UK), Sadler Wells (UK), Theatreformen (Germany), and ArtsCross (China). Their personal practice currently explores the body as an active archive. They began running Bodily Archives workshops at RichMix as part of the Practice Lab programme run by Projek Europa. They have since facilitated workshops at Queer Circle(UK), Summerhall (Edinburgh) and The Nest Space (South Africa). Bodily Archives uses a combination of improvised movement, voice and reflective writing, inviting participants to slow down and notice through witness what is underneath the surface. 

Tuesday 2 September – Ewa Emini

What moves you? How can you connect your own truth to a given structure? In a world full of borrowed forms and borrowed voices, how do you uncover your own creative movement voice?

This movement-based workshop invites artists of all disciplines to reconnect with their creative instinct, body, and impulse in search of their authentic voice.

We will investigate this through two key approaches:

1. Creating your own movement vocabulary: Tapping into internal impulse, sensation, and emotional truth, we will explore how to generate movement that is personal, raw, and deeply felt. Using somatic practice, Authentic Movement, elements of Grotowski’s Poor Theatre and improvisation, we’ll work to strip back performative habits and discover what genuinely drives us to move.

2. Finding your voice within given structures: We’ll explore how to bring personal ownership and authenticity into set forms, choreography, or directed movement. Through interpretation, transformation, and reimagining, we’ll learn to bend structures to reflect our individual artistic voice.

The workshop is a space for experimentation, vulnerability, and embodied research. Open to performers, dancers, devisers, and interdisciplinary artists, it offers a supportive environment to move beyond imitation and into expressive integrity.

Ewa is a movement director, director, and movement teacher originally from Krakow. She trained in Physical Theatre ,Grotowski Technique at Gardzienice Theatre and Contemporary Dance in Warsaw. After completing an MA in Movement: Directing and Teaching at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, she has worked on theatre productions and short films. Ewa currently teaches as a visiting lecturer at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Mountview

Academy of Theatre Arts, and private acting studios. Her work focuses on exploring authentic physical expression and movement language through collaborative, multidisciplinary approaches. Since 2023, she has been part of the PROJEKT EUROPA community, collaborating on various projects ever since. 

Wednesday 3 September – Yasmeen Audisho Ghrawi

Our “authentic voice”—human and artistic—is born from daily acts of self-encounter. To meet ourselves, we must feel safe enough to dare: to cross internal borders, confront fear with empathy, and trust the deep intelligence of intuition. This begins in the body.

Through improvisation and movement, we’ll playfully arrive in our bodies and connect with one another. Drawing from physical theatre, movement practices, and traditional dance—Palestinian/Lebanese Dabkeh, Iraqi/Kurdish Chobii, and Iraqi Roma dance, Hach’a—we’ll explore the stories held in traditional gestures and those mapped in our own fascia.

Together, we will move, devise, and reflect on vulnerability as a living pathway to authenticity—not a fixed truth, but a multidimensional, evolving experience of self and story.

The body is not just a site of trauma, but a recorder of memory, joy, resistance, and possibility. In this time of censorship and shrinking freedoms, we will ask: How does the body carry the weight of silencing? How can it also speak the language of liberation—and of worlds yet to come?

/‘jes.mɪən/ /’aʊdiʃəʊ/ /’ʁrɑː.wiː/ is a queer Iraqi/Syrian/Assyrian performer, story-maker and writer working across theatre, live performance, film, and protest to shift oppressively hegemonic narratives and dissolve the borders of our imagination. She works with and through the physical body to access stories we hold and that need urgent birthing. She is often found collaborating and devising, which is the act of co-creating in ways that challenge and play with hierarchy. She is committed to the concept and act of expansion that mirrors galactical movements, and firmly

believes that individual and collective liberation can only happen through a commitment tointentional play and joy. Yasmeen Audisho Ghrawi is the lead facilitator of NO DIRECTION HOME,the first stand-up comedy collective that platforms upcoming migrant/refugee stand-upcomedians. She recently assisted in creating and directing IBN BATTUTA TRAVELS, a participatorypiece of theatre with members of the SWANA community which opened at The Biennial ShubbakFestival. Yasmeen is also a member of THE RADICAL FILM SCHOOL and worked closely withfilmmaker Ken Loach on his latest film THE OLD OAK. She sits on the Artistic Advisory Board of theInternational Theatre Company , Projekt Europa and is a regular guest lecturer on the courseTHEATRE AND SOCIAL CHANGE at Rosebruford College for Performing Arts. She is also an ArtsAdmin artist-in-residence and is currently working on the second tour of her solo show FROM THEDAUGHTER OF A DICTATOR which was co-created with a community of 15 first-gen migrant artists.

Thursday 4 September – Paula Rodríguez

Theatre is a living conversation with tradition; constantly challenging and reshaping the stories we inherit. This workshop uses classical texts from diverse origins, including Ancient Greece, the Renaissance, and the Spanish Golden Age, as a springboard to explore the stories we need to tell as artists today.

Participants are invited to bring a classical text from their own heritage or tradition of choice. Through reflection, storytelling, and Viewpoints-based exercises, they will engage with these texts as dynamic tools for developing their unique artistic voice.

This workshop is a welcoming, inclusive space open to all theatre practitioners, writers, directors, actors, and creatives, and offers a supportive environment to critically engage with the classics and generate original, powerful work.

Paula Rodríguez is an award-winning director, writer, and actor working across theatre, film, and television. She is the co-founder of Teatro Inverso, a company dedicated to reimagining Spanish Golden Age theatre for global audiences, and the creator of Project AURIC, which blends classical texts with contemporary music. 

She has worked at leading venues including the Bridge Theatre, Young Vic, Orange Tree, Cervantes

Theatre, and Chichester Festival Theatre in the UK, and international festivals across Europe and the US. 

A graduate of RESAD (Madrid) and the MA Acting programme at RCSSD (London), Paula is a member of Spain’s Academia de las Artes Escénicas. She regularly leads educational projects and student productions at leading universities in the UK, Spain, and the US. She directed Mad for Love for BADA (2023) and co-wrote and directed Lysistrata (Uprising) for RCSSD (2025). 

Friday 5 September – Andreea Tudose

This workshop invites participants to explore the idea of an “authentic voice”—particularly in the context of performing, embodying, and sometimes monetising otherness. Using an excerpt from Sheena Patel’s I’m a Fan as provocation, the session will reflect on how identity is constructed and consumed in performance, and how artists can navigate the need to 'find their niche' in a way that is fruitful rather than limiting.

Through a mix of clowning, acting, and drag-based techniques, participants will be guided through exercises that prompt deep self-reflection, creative risk-taking, and playful experimentation.

No prior experience in drag or clowning is required—just openness, curiosity, and a willingness to respond, perform, and play.

Andreea is an actor and theatre maker. Originally from Romania, she trained as an actor in France, Colombia, and Estonia. Her practice centres around the cultural, linguistic and material realities of migration. She is investigating how artistic training could better serve artists who speak more than one language or have more than one heritage. She writes and translates, and over the last few years has become interested in making multilingual work that aims to destabilise the dominance of the English language.