Workshops
Shona can offer classes nationally and internationally delivering courses, classes and workshops in the following techniques:
Neutral Mask
Character Mask
Chorus Work
Animal Study into Character
Pure Movement work
How to find the movement vocabulary for your production
How to find the physical life of a character
She has developed her own unique approach to working on Chorus which she uses as an approach to ensemble-based training for companies or as a way to create connectivity and harmony for business or education.
She can teach bespoke courses in Pure Movement to release and empower an actor’s range of physical expression.
Her mask work uses her own handmade Neutral Masks (leather) by Satori and character masks hand-crafted by Finn Caldwell.
Her techniques are based on the craft and expression of Actors’ Movement.
“Shona Morris has a justifiably distinguished reputation as a teacher of movement but in fact she is more than that. As someone who started her career as an actor, she has developed a system of work which firmly integrates the physical life of a performer within all their other skills as an essential part of their expressiveness and not some sort of add on.
Above and beyond her acting training, she has studied an impressively wide range of physical disciplines and techniques and then been able to amalgamate them into a training process of her own. I admire her work very much indeed.”
Workshops and residencies include:
Greek Chorus Workshop Ancient and Modern
Workshop leader to share Chorus Techniques with professional practitioners July 2021
Vienna Kinder Theatre in Vienna and Bucharest
Movement Coach and Movement Director
Di Trevis Workshops
Movement Teacher
National Theatre
Various workshops
The Actors Centre
Various Movement workshops
Centre Pompidou (2007)
Les Jeudis, site-specific all day immersive movement theatre piece in front of, and inspired by, the paintings of the Musee D’art Moderne (general public audience, 3000 people)
RSC (2010)
Lecture demonstration on the Neutral Mask
University of Cambridge (2012- 2014)
PACE (Performance Art Critic Experiment)
Led by Professor Robin Kirkpatrick and Professor Vladimir Mirodan - a series of research-led events, symposia and conferences into movement-based approaches to classical text through embodiment. Using The Chorus as a way into the collective storytelling explored.
“When the Chorus retreated en masse at the finale of their demonstration while chanting from the comedia, Dante’s words took on a universal magical power: shrinking into a vortex. Breathtaking. And how dramatic to have left us with this act of wonder.”
Grotowski Centre Poland (2016)
Crossing Borders, workshop using “inner” to “outer” physical techniques to explore text and dance, with students from visiting international Drama Schools
The Global Alliance of Theatre Schools (2016)
Masks and animal study - commedia dell’arte, workshop at ENSAD (National Theatre School of Dramatic Arts Lima/Peru)
RESAD (Royal Theatre School of Madrid) (2017)
The Chorus and the individual, 3 day workshop for RESAD acting students and contributor to RESAD's conference on International Theatre Training
RADA in Business (2018)
Hands Across The Space, workshop on working together and creating harmony as a group, using the techniques of The Chorus as a starting point