# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Panel Discussion #1: Neutral Mask w/ John Bolton, Giovanni Fusetti, Steph Kehoe and Kimberley Twiner
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 09 Feb, 2026 at 12:00 am – Mon, 09 Feb, 2026 at 02:00 am
- **Event Description**: Panel #1 as part of CONVERSATIONS WITH THE FOOLS

The Neutral Mask is one of the most precious gifts that we have received from the research and practice of theatre masks within the lineage of Jacques Copeau, Suzanne Bing, Jean Dasté, Jacques Lecoq and Amleto Sartori, just to name some key names in the story.

The Neutral Mask is a fundamental step in the journey of Movement Based Theatre. It is a mask that doesn’t have any dramatic expression, it exists before all other theatre masks.
The Neutral Mask is a powerful pedagogic instrument. It inspires a fascinating learning process, profoundly poetic, both intimate and collective. It allows the actor to explore the difference between movement and drama, between body and character.�

It emerged from poetic and pedagogic questions like these ones…

Is there a mask that can train the actor to reach the physical state of engaged presence that is necessary in order to play all other masks?

Is there a mask that can prepare the poetic body to the process of shape-shifting and form-shifting that character play requires?

Is there a mask that can teach the actor not only to create space and time, but to become space and time?

What is the body saying while the actor is trying to not say anything?

And maybe the most crucial of all questions: do we share a common language, a common somatic vocabulary that comes before culture and time; before and beyond gender and race; what Lecoq named the common poetic background? What is the relevance of this question today, in a time of relativism, post-modern thinking and identity quests?

In this panel we will explore the core elements of this poetic quest and we will try to re-actualise the powerful depth of this mask.

This panel brings together two elders of the work: Giovanni Fusetti and John Bolton. As well as Steph Kehoe who teaches at VCA. And Kimberley Twiner who has begun teaching the work in the Melbourne community.

Tickets are a sliding scale pricing.

https://giovannifusetti.com/the-fools-seminars-2026/
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/coburg/panel-discussion-1-neutral-mask-w-john-bolton-giovanni-fusetti-steph-kehoe-and-kimberley-twiner/200029640024315
- **Event Categories**: art, theatre, business, performances, sports, workshops, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 14

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Coburg
- **state**: VI
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: Coburg Uniting Church
- **lat**: -37.743163958373
- **long**: 144.96488928795
- **full address**: Coburg Uniting Church, Coburg, Australia

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Panel Discussion #1: Neutral Mask w/ John Bolton, Giovanni Fusetti, Steph Kehoe and Kimberley Twiner being held?
  - **A:** Panel Discussion #1: Neutral Mask w/ John Bolton, Giovanni Fusetti, Steph Kehoe and Kimberley Twiner takes place on Mon, 09 Feb, 2026 at 12:00 am to Mon, 09 Feb, 2026 at 02:00 am at Coburg Uniting Church, Coburg, Australia.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Panel Discussion #1: Neutral Mask w/ John Bolton, Giovanni Fusetti, Steph Kehoe and Kimberley Twiner?
  - **A:** Panel Discussion #1: Neutral Mask w/ John Bolton, Giovanni Fusetti, Steph Kehoe and Kimberley Twiner is organized by Melbourne Physical Theatre School.

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