Kick-start your new year with the Wolves!
Taking place across January 2027 and led by joint artistic directors Anna Porubcansky and Ewan Downie, these workshops are based in Company of Wolves’ rigorous and playful body-centred training built on years of investigation into non-hierarchical and collaborative creation.
For our 2027 edition, we're offering a programme of workshops across Glasgow and Edinburgh.
“A totally world-expanding experience. Wonderful, rigorous, and gloriously focused on the human.”
Body-Voice-Play
Mon 11 - Wed 13 January 2027, 10am-4:30pm @ Dance Base, Edinburgh
Thu 14 - Sat 16 January 2027, 10am-4:30pm @ Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
Body-Voice-Play is a workshop about how we play, both together and alone, and how we can be present with ourselves and with others. We'll awaken our bodies, voices and imaginations to free creativity, develop confidence and resilience, and build connections with other people. This is open to anyone interested in the company’s work. In the past we’ve welcomed community workers, teachers, writers, administrators, dancers, musicians and therapists to our workshops as well as theatre-makers, writers, actors and artists of all sorts. Expect to smile and sweat!
Making Together: Collaborative Creation
Tue 19 - Thu 21 January 2027, 10am-4:30pm @ Citizens Theatre
Over the course of this workshop, we will make messy performance material, and practice sharing it with each other -- through this, we’ll investigate how to inspire and be inspired, how to say yes and when to say no, in addition to examining the role of the director, exploring different ways to give feedback, and building our own voices and visions as creative artists. Expect the strange, the beautiful, the absurd and the profound — sometimes all at the same time! **Please note some performance experience is required for this workshop.
"An inquisitive and non-judgemental workshop providing a perfect start to the new year.”
Company of Wolves is a highly acclaimed laboratory theatre company based in Glasgow. We make performances that use elements of theatre, dance, music, and improvisation to inspire, challenge and question. Since 2012, we’ve led over 60 workshops to more than 1000 participants, both in Scotland and abroad.
“It is a gift to work with leaders who truly understand and facilitate their craft, and work with such openness and beauty.”
“Invigorating. Joyful. Experimental."
WHAT TO EXPECT
Winter Training involves medium to high physical engagement, including a wide range of activities from meditative practices to running and dancing. The work will involve solo, partner and group exercises. Please get in touch with Emma at info@companyofwolves.org if you have any questions.
Listen to what participants had to say about last year's Making Together // Winter Training 2026 workshop. Interviews with Louise Mather, trailer by Serden Salih.
HOW TO APPLY
Please use this online form to tell us a bit about yourself, why you want to be involved in the training and which workshop you'd like to apply for.
FEES
£195 per person per workshop // Bursaries available on a self-selected basis, see below.
** Book two workshops, get the second one 20% off (i.e. £350 for two workshops).
** Full payment is required to secure a place.
Half-price bursaries are available for people who experience barriers in participating in the arts due to any form of prejudice or oppression. Due to demand, bursaries are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Please note: in order to help us support as many people as possible, anyone who has received a workshop bursary from us in the last year will not be eligible for a bursary this year.
Bursaries cannot be combined with the discount for booking two workshops.