Training in Movement and Theatre Making
WORKSHOPS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
An exciting opportunity to train with the award-winning and critically acclaimed Feet First Collective (FFC), a boutique Australian producing house making contemporary independent theatre.
Samuel Addison as Flynn in Shadow Boxing
The Feet First Method is supported by a unique combination of training methodologies: Teresa Izzard’s approach to Laban and Somatic Movement for actors, Anne Bogart’s Viewpoints and Composition and Lecoq’s approach to actor training and theatre making. Feet First Collective’s training team offers opportunities to artists, educators and students to experience our expertise and working processes. We are available to work with individuals, collectives and organisations. In 2026 we are trialling bi-coastal offerings and have worked with a variety of schools and training organisations in WA and NSW, including teaching for the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Busselton, Red Earth Arts Festival in Karratha and collaborating with Sydney Acting Studio to offer movement masterclasses in Sydney. The following workshops are a good sample of the range of our offerings:
Practitioner Workshops
FFC can provide incursions and professional development for students / educators in the following practitioners / methodologies:
Anne Bogart: Ensemble Building and Physical Approaches to Devising
1: The 9 Viewpoints
2: Viewpoints in Rehearsal
3: Composition and Devising
Rudolf Laban: A Language for Generating and Describing Movement
1: Effort – Time, Weight, Space and Flow
2: Space – Kinaesphere and Dynamosphere
3: Effort and Character
Other Practitioners:
1: Steven Berkoff and Artaud 2: Frantic Assembly 3: Lecoq
NB: We recommend that an Introductory session on Viewpoints or Laban be at least 90 minutes if at all possible. 120 mins is preferable. This is to allow us time to deliver the material in a thorough manner for the students. Please contact Teresa if you would like to discuss this recommendation.
Also available: Directing, Brecht, The Theatre of the Absurd, Grotowski and Poor Theatre, Vocal Viewpoints, Practical Aesthetics and Candidate’s Choice workshops.
We can also curate a bespoke workshop that meets your needs. Feel free to call me (Teresa) on: 0416530079 to discuss.
Lauren Beeton as Chloe in This is Where We Live
Samuel Addison as Man and Gabi Munro as May in S-27
“I thoroughly recommend them. Amazing knowledge and great fun in a highly practical workshop that we could use immediately in our classrooms.”
Each session as described can be delivered at an introductory level in 50 minutes to 1 hour. However, all / any of these sessions can be expanded and/or designed to meet the needs for different year levels or tasks. We can also create a teacher development day or series of masterclasses. FFC coaches have expertise in a wide range of movement and theatre practitioners and methodologies so just ask us if you would like to design your own bespoke workshop.
“Feet First are by far the best group to bring to take your senior classes through the process of making theatre. Their bespoke approach to physicalising and bringing text to life is refreshing, enriching and steeped in professional practice... Students don’t just appreciate the practitioner techniques, but gain real lived in experiences that they can apply... A must for all classes studying Drama as a Performing Art.”
Rates
All our rates include consultation, preparation, a coach, travel to your venue* and resources as appropriate. This reduces if you book us for more than one hour which we encourage you to do.
Minimum Call Out (up to 1 hour): $400
Masterclass (up to 2 hours) : $500
Half Day (up to 3 hours): $225 per hour ($675)
Full Day (up to 5 hours): $200 per hour ($1000)
Please contact Teresa on 0416530079 if you would like to discuss the rates or would like us to provide a quote for a particular context as we aim to be flexible and accessible.
FFCT's Terms and Conditions:
Bookings & Payments: All training sessions must be booked in advance. Payment is required in full within 7 days of receipt of invoice as per our current rates (see above) unless otherwise agreed in writing.
Cancellations: We understand that things crop up and want to be as supportive as possible. However, as a small initiative we need to ensure we are covering our costs. Therefore, once you have booked a workshop with FFCT a cancellation in writing received more than 7 days prior to the workshop will incur a $50 administration fee. If you cancel all or part of your booking within 7 days we will invoice you for 50% of the cancelled portion of your booking to cover our costs. Any workshop cancelled within 48 hours will be charged in full.
Rescheduling: We are happy to reschedule booked workshops once free of charge if we are able to. If we are unable to reschedule a booked workshop within a reasonable timeframe (i.e. a couple of weeks or so) it will be considered cancelled and the conditions of the previous clause will come into effect. We will do our best to reschedule at a later date, but it will be considered a new booking and will be charged as such. If we are rescheduling part of a booking, additional fees may be added to cover our costs of returning to your venue to deliver this section of the workshop. If a workshop has been rescheduled once it will be treated as a cancellation and we will also add a $50 administration fee to our invoice.
Liability: All coaches have public liability insurance and a valid WWCC. Copies of our COC and WWCC card available on request.
Code of Conduct: Respectful behavior is expected at all times. Please ensure participants are wearing appropriate movement clothes.
Changes & Cancellations: Feet First Collective reserves the right to reschedule or cancel sessions if necessary.
Agreement: By receiving these terms and conditions, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to them.
*NB: If coaches are travelling locally (in NSW or WA), travel outside 25km radius from CBD will be charged at 88c per km, if parking is not provided on school grounds parking costs will be added to our invoice. If travel involves a coach travelling interstate (to NSW or WA), flights and travel costs will also apply. If more than one school is booking, these costs can be split.
“If you haven’t had Teresa Izzard out to work with your students, then you are missing out. It’s a great PD opportunity and our students just loved it. It was engaging, thought-provoking, well-paced, and fun! Thank you, Teresa and Feet First Collective!”
OUR TEAM
Teresa Izzard – Lead Coach
Teresa Izzard (Artistic Director / Creative Producer / Lead Coach)
Dr Teresa Izzard CMA DEP (she/her) is a theatre and movement director, dramaturg, creative producer and educator who brings her background in Laban, Viewpoints and Somatic Movement Education together with rigorous directorial processes to create clear visual and physical dramaturgy for challenging, provocative texts and devised works. Teresa has presented and taught internationally including for; Shapes in Motion, The Labanarian and Guildford School of Acting (UK), the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS, NYC) and BSSTC, WAAPA and the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia. Key movement training includes; Lecoq with Lorna Marshall, Laban at LIMS, Somatics with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Martha Eddy and Wendell Beavers, Viewpoints with Mary Overlie and the SITI Company. Highlights for Feet First Collective include Shadow Boxing, the WA and SA premieres of S-27; original works Medusa and Frankenstein; and This Is Where We Live which was described as “complex and tense ... compelling viewing” by Arts Hub. Her co-adaptation (with Silvia Lehmann) of The Yellow Wallpaper was nominated in the ‘Best New Play’ category of the WA Equity Guild Awards and won the Phillips Parsons Prize. She has directed the WA premieres of Machinal, Afternoon and Berkoff’s Metamorphosis. She is a trained dramaturg (Playwriting Australia) and has studied under prestigious directors including; Di Trevis, Elen Bowman, Lorna Marshall and Anne Bogart. She is Feet First Collective’s Artistic Director and Creative Producer.
After founding Feet First’s Training initiative in 2021 she has run hundreds of workshops with Samuel Addison in Perth, Regional WA and Sydney, supporting artists, students and educators on their embodiment journeys. In addition to their work through FFC, they have taught and presented together for Black Swan State Theatre Company (BSSTC), the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), Drama West, the Catholic Education Office of WA, the Independent Schools Association of WA and the Red Earth Arts Festival.
She trained Samuel Addison and Shelby McKenzie in Laban and Viewpoints at Curtin University as their movement teacher and in application to performance through productions as their director.
Find out more: https://teresaizzard.com/teresa-izzard
Samuel Addison – Senior Coach
Samuel Addison (Associate Artist / Senior Coach)
Samuel Addison (he/him) is an actor, content creator, designer and producer who holds a BA in Theatre Arts from Curtin University. He has a background in creating powerful embodied performances and taking on extreme challenges. Highlights for Feet First Collective include learning to box for Shadow Boxing, training in aerials for Medusa and his performance as Chris in This is Where We Live which was described by Arts Hub as ‘extraordinary’. Other notable achievements are his award-winning performance of Playing with Shadows for Unbalanced Productions and his performance as Gregor in the WA premiere of Berkoff’s Metamorphosis. He recently played leads in short films Neural Command and The Will. He was an FFC core artist between 2019-2024 and is now Feet First Collective’s Associate Artist.
He has been part of FFC’s training initiative since it was founded 2021. He has run hundreds of workshops with Teresa Izzard in Perth, Regional WA and Sydney, supporting artists, students and educators on their embodiment journeys. In addition to their work through FFC, they have taught and presented together for Black Swan State Theatre Company (BSSTC), the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), Drama West, the Catholic Education Office of WA, the Independent Schools Association of WA and the Red Earth Arts Festival.
Find out more: https://www.instagram.com/s_laddison/
Shelby McKenzie – Senior Coach
Shelby McKenzie (Senior Coach)
Shelby McKenzie (They/She) is an actor, theatre maker, and movement artist. They graduated with first class honours from WAAPA, where they focussed on embodiment in live theatrical performance through a hybridisation of Stanislavskis script analysis, Laban Movement Analysis and Bogart’s Viewpointing techniques. Their thesis Moments in Performance; developing an aid for articulation and reflection has been published through the Edith Cowan University library.
Shelby joined Feet First Collective as a senior coach in 2026, having assisted Teresa Izzard, Shelby also works as a teaching artist across companies such as WAAPA, Black Swan State Theatre Company and Barking Gecko Arts. As a regional kid themself, they feel strongly about furthering creative opportunities for children and teens living in regional and remote communities.
Shelby is a bilingual/bi-modal artist studying towards a diploma in Auslan, with the intention to incorporate the language into their practice. They aim to increase access and opportunity to theatre through language inclusive practices.
“It was the physical ‘doing’ of the viewpoints that allowed me to really understand each of them, how they worked and how I could manipulate them in my own work and written situations …The OSP workshop got me to jump over my overwhelm about the enormity of the task...”