Workshop with David Glass 2026
Embodied Storytelling: Body, Presence, Myth
Four-Day Workshop | 4–8 August 2026
This four-day workshop brings together physical theatre and storytelling as interconnected creative
practices. Working through the body, imagination, and lived experience, participants explore how
movement and story can deepen presence, clarify voice, and give form to meaningful work.
Physical Theatre — Returning to the Body. Physical theatre practice runs throughout the workshop.
Through movement, ensemble work, spatial awareness, rhythm, and play, participants reconnect with
the body as an intelligent, expressive instrument. The work focuses on élan, presence, intention,
attention, and play, lowering judgment and sharpening responsiveness to impulse and image.
Story & Dramaturgy — Finding and Shaping the Story
. Alongside the physical work, participants
explore storytelling in its widest sense, supported by clear dramaturgical scaffolding. Stories emerge
from personal experience, myth, the contemporary world, and dreams and liminal states, and are
shaped through tools that interrogate structure, revealing clarity, strength, and direction. The work
supports stories for theatre, one-person shows, film, novels, and graphic novels.
Integration & Final Sharing — Body and story are treated as one creative ecology. On the final day,
participants create an informal performance sharing, integrating movement, voice, story, and simple
found objects as storytelling tools.
David Glass’s workshops are known for their joy, playfulness, and rigour, offering a living
methodology that participants can carry forward into their own creative work.
Open to performers, storytellers, directors, writers, educators, and artists from other disciplines.
No fixed outcome is imposed; the emphasis is on process, depth, and discovery.
DAVID GLASS
David Glass was trained at the Lecoq school in Paris. He has also studied with Augusto Boal,
Growtowski, Peter Brook, Alvin Ailey and Mike Alfreds. David worked as a soloist performing in forty
countries before establishing the David Glass Ensemble in 1990. He has now relaunched the
Ensemble as a platform to help establish young people in the arts and theatre internationally.
More info: http://davidglassensemble.org/
HAUTEVILLE (KANTON FRIBOURG)
Is a little village within the district of Gruyère in Switzerland. At an altitude of 850 meters, with a direct
view over the lake of Gruyère, not far from the dynamic city of Bulle, the isolated chalet benefits from
an atmospheric phenomena called the inversion layer during cold months. The fog remains in the
valley while the chalet benefits from more hours of direct sunlight. The 1804 mountain farm has been
modified over the years to adapt to its guests while keeping its intimate and authentic style. More
info: https://www.chalet-les-sots.com/thechaletlessotsWorkshop with David Glass 2026
What Physical theatre workshop and storytelling
Where Hauteville (Kanton Fribourg) Switzerland
When Tuesday 04.08.2024 - Saturday 08.08.2026
10:00 – 13:00 Physical theatre
14:00 – 17:00 Storytelling
Who For participants aged 18+
Experience in physical theatre / performance is welcomed but not required.
Anyone who is open to creative learning, no previous experience needed.
Come prepared to move. Wear comfortable clothing.
The workshop will be conducted in English.
Course fee CHF 1’220.00
Accommodation, breakfast and dinner included, simple, diverse, healthy & vegan.
In order to secure your place, a prepayment of CHF 350.
– is required.
Conditions min 9 participants
Questions / Application via email to olivia.bernoulli@gmail.com or phone +41 79 936 39 28.