BODY
RIOTS
LONDON AUTUMN INTENSIVES
NOV – DEC 2026
NOT A WEEKLY CLASS,
BUT A SERIES OF CONCENTRATED
ENCOUNTERS WITH THE WORK.
Each intensive offers four hours to enter deeply into physical practice — working with impulse, attention, contradiction, imagination and the relationship between bodies.
The training is physically and mentally demanding. It asks for presence, curiosity and a willingness to move beyond familiar patterns.
15
NOVEMBER
2026
THE INDIVIDUAL BODY
IMPULSE · CONTRADICTION ·
PHYSICAL IMAGINATION
4 HOURS
CREATE DESTROY STUDIOS
HACKNEY, LONDON
29
NOVEMBER
2026
THE RELATIONAL BODY
ATTENTION · REACTION ·
RESISTANCE · CONNECTION
4 HOURS
CREATE DESTROY STUDIOS
HACKNEY, LONDON
12–13
DECEMBER
2026
PARTNERING BODIES
WEIGHT · TRUST · DEPENDENCY ·
PHYSICAL DIALOGUE · COMPOSITION
8 HOURS (WEEKEND)
CHISENHALE DANCE SPACE
LONDON
THE TRAINING
INTENSITY · PRECISION · RISK
This is a practice of intensity, precision and risk. It challenges the body, the mind and your usual ways of moving, thinking and relating.
WHO IT IS FOR
Artists, performers and movers ready for physically and mentally demanding work. Presence, curiosity and a willingness to move beyond familiar patterns matter more than any single movement background.
PRICING
4-HOUR INTENSIVES
£45 Advance · £50 Regular
DECEMBER WEEKEND
£85 Advance · £95 Regular
Returning participants always receive the Advance price for their next intensive.
LIMITED PLACES & LOCATIONS
Maximum 14 participants per intensive.
15 & 29 NOVEMBER
Create Destroy Studios · Hackney, London
12–13 DECEMBER
Chisenhale Dance Space · London
Testimonials:
"Matej is an exceptional practitioner of not just the craft of performance, but also in the art of holding provocative but tender spaces for artists to soften boundaries within the self to deepen our own questioning. Encountering Matej's work has in many ways challenged the structure in which I have built myself throughout the years and that has brought upon inspiration and strength to allow for further transformation in my own practices."
Vinna Law - Actor, performer, meditator and writer
“One of the most skilled and experienced teachers of physical acting in the world. … A consummate master in teaching and training actors in physical work and movement.”
Dr. Ben Spatz, University of Huddersfield, UK
“Matej Matejka has an extraordinary talent and gift for teaching… I am always surprised by how far his actors develop the craft of physicality and the intelligence of their bodies.”
Milan Kozanek, choreographer/teacher, SK
“Precise yet open and flowing, Caring but rigorous, technical and poetical, working with everybody in and through the group. An excellent teacher.”
anonymous workshop participant