Winter Training is your creative kick-start to the new year. Taking place across January 2026 and led by Company of Wolves‘ 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 their fourteenth edition, they’re offering a new programme of workshops across Glasgow and Edinburgh.
“A totally world-expanding experience. Wonderful, rigorous, and gloriously focused on the human.”
Body-Voice-Play
Company of Wolves are running this workshop twice – once in Edinburgh and once in Glasgow:
Wed 14 – Fri 16 January 2026, 10am-4.30pm @ Edinburgh Open Workshop
with Ewan Downie
Mon 19 – Wed 21 January 2026, 10am-4.30pm @ Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
with Anna Porubcansky and Ewan Downie
Body-Voice-Play is a workshop about how we play, both together and alone; how we can be present with ourselves and with others. Awaken your 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 they’ve welcomed community workers, teachers, writers, administrators, dancers, musicians, and therapists to workshops, as well as theatre-makers, writers, actors, and artists of all sorts. Expect to smile and sweat!
Making Together: Collaborative Creation
with Anna Porubcansky and Ewan Downie
Thu 22 – Sat 24 January 2026, 10am-4.30pm @ Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
Over the course of this workshop, you’ll make messy performance material, and practice sharing it with each other — through this, you’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 your 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-judgmental workshop providing a perfect start to the new year.”
About Company of Wolves
Company of Wolves is a highly acclaimed laboratory theatre company based in Glasgow. They make performances that use elements of theatre, dance, music, and improvisation to inspire, challenge, and question. Since 2012, they’ve led over 60 workshops to more than 1000 participants, both in Scotland and abroad. For more information, visit their website at companyofwolves.org or contact them on info@companyofwolves.org
“It is a gift to work with leaders who truly understand and facilitate their craft, and work with such openness and beauty.”
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 if you have any questions.
“Invigorating. Joyful. Experimental.”
How to Apply
Please use this online form to tell Company of Wolves a bit about yourself, why you want to be involved in the training, and which workshop you’d like to apply for: https://forms.gle/hiBhXvVPU6FtvkYx7
For further information, please contact info@companyofwolves.org (Emma Jackson) or visit https://companyofwolves.org/.
Application deadline is 5pm, Wed 31 December 2025.
Fees
£180 per person per workshop, bursaries are available on a self-selected basis, see below.
** Book two workshops, get the second one 20% off (i.e. £324 for two workshops).
** Full payment is required to secure a place.
50% 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. Bursaries cannot be combined with the discount for booking two workshops.
