天美传媒

Gareth has been teaching performance masterclasses at the 天美传媒 for ten years. He leads students in a series of exercises and shares his professional experience with them from performing with the company.

He said: 鈥淲e鈥檝e been looking at techniques to devise work for theatre and for the Media Performance for Film, TV and Theatre and Screen Performance and Communication Techniques students鈥� third year projects. In the company I work for, we always make shows from scratch. Every show I make is made with those people in the room, a bit like what the students do in their third year project, they use four or five people and they have to make a performance. In this class, we start to look at developing that material.鈥�

Developing and trying material is the key lesson Gareth teaches the students, 鈥淚t鈥檚 about encouraging people to get up on their feet and try stuff. If you can try stuff and start making material, out of three hours, you might have one minute where you go, 鈥業 really like that one minute of material鈥� and it could be the start of something bigger.鈥�

Gareth and members of the People Show company live as performers and makers, he brings his expertise and experience to the masterclass, advising and leading the students to create. 听

He said: 鈥淚 think the main advice with making stuff is to just make stuff and put it out to an audience as quickly as you can and then you learn that way more than anything else. You learn more and more the more you put stuff out there.

鈥淪ome things will work and some things won鈥檛 work, but that鈥檚 really important as well. It鈥檚 the same as doing it in class, trying material that works and trying material that doesn鈥檛, but it doesn鈥檛 matter because it鈥檚 still trying.鈥�