Dende Collective members run a series of education activities in schools, art centres and community projects. Some of the themes have varied from: masks, puppetry, storytelling, Brazilian culture, citizenship, radio drama, multi media, etc. Contact us if you would like to know more.
A PLAY IN A WEEK
Project for the Lyric Summer School
During a week we devised a show with 11 to 14 y.o. The final result was performed in the Lyric Hammersmith Studio.
THE DRAGONS RETURN
Magic Realism Residency
This was a short residency with final performance in July 2006, with the subject of Magic Realism. We devised a new version of the short stories The Dragons by Murilo Rubião, which was part of our show THE PIRANHA LOUNGE.
MASK ACTING
Workshop
Andre Pink led a master class on mask acting to young actors who wanted to learn this craft.
CLUB PIRANHA
A play with young people
Dende devised this show with the company after one-month residency. The show was a cabaret styled piece loosely inspired by short stories from the novel Stories of Eva Luna by the Chilean writer Isabel Allende. CLUB PIRANHA fittingly married Dende's Educational and Artistic ethos: while working with young people we devised and produced a professional show that became a sold out success during the whole run. Together we took the audience to a Latin American Club populated by the characters of those stories, where their highly emotional lives were portrayed using all sorts of theatrical devices.
OneFourSeven
Worshop on Devising for performance
Dende Collective ran a one-day workshop for their drama students of their module in devising theatre. We shared our strategies in how we created our show OneFourSeve