Protein's approach to teaching aims at creating a friendly and creative atmosphere between participants and teachers and at generating a genuine sense of play from the beginning.

Devised specifically for every particular group, all our participation projects encourage bodily and spatial awareness, group interaction and exploration of movement qualities and ideas attached to a particular theme/subject (eg from the company's performance repertory). A colourful use of imagery, sounds, games, emotions and familiar situations stimulates and enriches each participant's imagination and access to the theme.

Starting with an appropriate warm-up designed to introduce physical and thematic ingredients of the workshop while preparing the body for work, each session follows a creative process that allows the participants to explore, devise and perform original movement and theatrical ideas. Short group discussions are instigated at different stages of the session, while a final evaluation aims at developing skills of critical appreciation.

Facilitated by excellent dancers and teachers, seeding inventive, imaginative dance activities in a relaxed, lively, social atmosphere, Protein's participation projects are designed to promote personal creative discoveries, dance-theatre making skills and a sense of enjoyment in simply taking part.

All Protein participation projects aim to:

• provide a creative learning experience for our clients
• develop individual movement vocabulary sourced from recognisable gesture, and everyday situations
• Develop confidence
• encourage self-expression
• develop problem-solving skills
• encourage a love and enjoyment of dance-theatre
• develop social interaction and awareness of self in relation to one another