Look After Your Knees Workshop

Saturday 5th October

11am – 2pm

Join Nat for a workshop exploring some of the techniques and approaches she used making her new solo show, co-created with Jamie Wood.  The workshop will be an opportunity to play, share and experiment, in a supportive environment, with new, old or yet to be conceived ideas.

We’ll move, write and hopefully do some stuff we can’t even imagine at this point.

 

About Natalie Bellingham:

Natalie Bellingham is a theatre maker, performer and physical comedian, raised in Manchester and now based in Yorkshire.

She was co-founder of Uncanny Theatre and toured original work for a decade to theatres and festivals throughout the UK, including HOME Manchester, The Lowry, Transform, A Nation’s Theatre, Incoming Festival & Gateshead International Festival of Theatre (GIFT).

She was a Funny Women Finalist in 2021 and most recently toured the UK with The Polar Bear (Is Dead) a show made in collaboration with Italian theatre maker Daniele Pennati about loss, climate change and the Spice Girls.

Natalie makes work that embraces the honesty of clown and the complexity of being human using comedy to explore difficult subject matter. Beautifully researched, with a balance of storytelling, absurdity and powerful visual moments, her work is entertaining and challenging in equal measure, acknowledging the audience and creating a relaxed environment where no one is the expert.

She uses small ideas to shine a light on the more unwieldy ones. Her work can be autobiographical, although not always. Sometimes it’s about the pain of losing a parent, sometimes it’s about tiny little birds and often it can be about both