There is a moment, before the curtain rises, when theatre stops being performance and becomes listening.
We look at each other, we breathe together. We stop acting and begin to truly be present.
This is where the work begins.
I use the tools of theatre to create experiences in which you can rediscover the pleasure of movement, self-listening, imagination — and give voice to what often remains unspoken.
Theatre and the human sciences, together. Because expression and understanding belong to the same process.
This is not an acting class, but a guided space to come into more authentic contact with yourself and others.
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Alessandra Busto
For over twenty years, theatre has been my work.
I began as an actress, then moved into directing, eventually founding the first Italian-language theatre company in Shanghai, with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute.
Over time, I found myself working mostly with people who had never done theatre before. And I kept witnessing the same thing: they became more open, more present, more connected to themselves and to others.
Not because they were performing. But because they were listening, feeling, and finding a space where they could truly be seen.
That transformation did not happen during the performance. It happened before: in the exercises, in the play, in the shared work.
That is where my approach was born.
To better understand what I was witnessing, I went on to study psychology in London. It was precisely by bringing theatre and the human sciences together that I found a language for what, deep down, I had already been observing for years.
When theatre is freed from performance, it becomes a real space for encounter and transformation.
Today I live in Trieste, where I continue this work in small groups — with those who feel that something, within themselves or in their relationships, has remained unexpressed.
I came looking for acting techniques and found myself instead. This workshop gave me permission to be vulnerable.
Frank T, London
The character I created became a mirror for parts of myself I'd been ignoring. I left feeling reconnected to my own voice.
Eve N, London
I expected performance anxiety, but found safety and play. For the first time, I truly learned to listen.
James L, Brighton