BE PREPARED TO LAUGH, CRY, SWEAT, AND REJOICE.
— Ben Rivers,
Director (Egypt)
WORKSHOPS
Troupe Courage offers several workshops in which participants have the unique opportunity to discover Troupe Courage's theatre. Their playful, positive approach, rooted in a unique pedagogy, encourages creativity and innovation. It requires dedication and rigorous training, and it is easy to fall in love with it.
Methodology:
At the heart of Troupe Courage's pedagogy are its masks. These masks unlock an actor's creativity and imagination, making the body the primary storyteller. Through mask work, thoughts, emotions and actions transform into playful expressions, resulting in actors and characters that come fully to life-born with passion, needs and flaws.
Di Trevis (Royal Shakespeare Company/Britain's National Theatre) describes Troupe Courage's work as ‘deadly serious and enormous fun’. Theaterkrant reviewer Kester Freriks calls it ‘important and innovative theatre’.
Troupe Courage conducts workshops at renowned institutions such as the Amsterdam School of Drama & Contemporary Music (ATKA) and NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
“I was deeply impressed with the company’s work. Troupe Courage has a unique theatrical style and pedagogy. They workshops helps actors joyfully access and embody the farthest reaches of their imaginations.”
Kevin Kuhlke,
Director,
NYU Tisch School of the Arts (New York)
7 - 13 JULI 2025
COURAGE
SUMMERSCHOOL
A 1-week intensive training for theatre professionals; actors, makers, mimers, dancers, musicians.
The training will take place in Amsterdam or surroundings.
28 FEBRUARY from 21 MARCH
THE BODY'S LANGUAGE
Experiential workshop
Actress and theatre maker Katrien van Beurden and GZ psychologist Esther Veldkamp join forces.
ON REQUEST
RESILIENCE AND RESOURCEFULNESS
An interactive lecture, training & daytime talk by Katrien van Beurden on resourcefulness and resilience in challenging times.
WORKSHOPS
IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
Troupe Courage's home base is in the Baarsjes of Amsterdam West at Balboaplein. Since the project ‘The hero of BB’, there has been a strong connection with the neighbourhood and the group playfully brings different activities art to the neighbourhood.
See our previous work here.
