About the Workshop:
The workshop is an exploration into a work in progress approach to the body as a character within the world of the project ( a film, a play or series), you as an actor and how you can physically move through the space and unit using your body as a tool rather than text. Throughout the workshop we will explore through games, exercises and text play how this can unlock a new approach in a kind and brave space through personal and shared language .
A bit about Rai:
Rai is a queer, non-Binary, neurodiverse, multi- disciplinary artist with a main artistic focus within film, theatre and audio work; predominantly as a writer, director, producer and performer. He has an extensive movement direction/ choreographic portfolio with a background in being a faculty teacher for Danceworks London, Pineapple Dance Studios and Base Dance Studios teaching styles such as Bollywood, Bhangra, Contemporary, Commercial and Street Dance to name a few His choreographic credits include: Jiggy x Bhangra at Traflagar Square (2024), Brown Girls Noise (2023), What’s Love Got to do with it (2023), Port Magazine (2023) and Diwali at Trafalgar Square (2018) to name a few.
As a performer he recently starred as ‘Varun’ in The Musical ‘Bhangra Nation’ at Birmingham Rep in 2024 and other credits include: Aladin, The Eternals, Fame- The Musical, Levis, Tui, Ikea, Nio Cocktails, Hotel Du Chocolat, Oliver Awards '15, Strictly Come Dancing, Adidas, X Factor and Britain's Got Talent. Alongside that he produces a weekly Life & Culture podcast called ‘Chai with Rai’ diving into mindset and business of being a creative whilst sipping and spilling some Hot (Garam) Chai.
He recently produced and directed an 8 episode short audio storytelling series featuring 8 Global Majority, Female and Non-Binary identifying, Neurodiverse writers. The series is called “Symphonies of Beaded Threads” and you can stream them on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible and all major streaming platforms.