EMBODIED THEATRE WORKSHOPS – Theatre-making with movement at its heart!

Highly qualified and internationally experienced choreographer, director and teacher, Deborah Mills ( M.A.Hons in Dance-Theatre) is teaming up with Lismore Theatre Company to offer an exciting and innovative project. Ms. Mills is calling all interested creative people wanting to learn new skills and have the opportunity to perform on stage. 

This is the first time LTC (local, not-for-profit, community theatre) is investing in the creation and development of an original theatre work from the ground up: from script-writing to stage. This ground-breaking project consists of 12 months of workshops culminating in an original production in February 2026 at Rochdale Theatre.

Ms. Mills calls this process Embodied Theatre. When asked to explain her term she says, “My process places the human body at the heart of the narrative. I train the performers to use their bodies to express their emotions, so the spoken text is fully embodied. My hope is that participants will take to the stage this time next year!”.

Adults of all levels of experience with an interest in improvisation, movement exploration, experimentation with props, script development and performance, are most welcome to join the workshops and share in the fun of theatre-making. 

Workshops will be held at Rochdale Theatre, Goonellabah on Tuesdays 6-9pm (starting 18th February) and every third Sunday of the month 10-4pm (starting 16th February). 

Cost: $75 per semester and ($50 for LTC members).

Call Deborah for more details on 0406399842

Bookings are essential – https://events.humanitix.com/embodied-theatre

Biography of Deborah Mills

Deborah Mills brings to LTC and to this new project her passion for the theatre and her extensive experience in choreography and movement direction. Both her aesthetic perspective and creative process have been influenced by her twenty years living and working in Europe and her postgraduate research studies in Dance-Theatre. Deborah established and directed Deborah’s Dancers in Geneva, Switzerland, where her company performed in various festivals, theatres, cabarets, on Swiss Television, at the United Nations Building for International Aids Day and successfully competed in the Torino International Choreographic Competition. During her academic research at UWS, School of Contemporary Arts, where she completed and was awarded M.A. Honours by Research in 2006, Deborah set up and co-directed Split Tits in Sydney. She collaborated with visual and digital media artists, sculptors  and musicians, staging several experimental hybrid performance works at various venues and festivals, including; Mardi Gras Cultural Festival and Bodies at Performance Space and Newtown Theatre. For 40 years, she has also taught dance and theatre studies, facilitated workshops and delivered Master classes, including at: Sydney Dance Company, UWS, Queensland University as well as in secondary and primary schools in Sydney and adult and Master classes in Europe. Her particular interest is the creation of moving metaphors and in teaching skills to  convert pedestrian movement into abstract movement. This process will be an essential part of her new Embodied Theatre workshops.