Skills Building and Enhancement Workshops are designed to support individuals, teams and entire organisations will help to deliver improved productivity, innovation, creative thinking and business end-user experience while improving staff wellbeing through increased confidence and success rates at work.

Our actors, drama therapists and project managers will work with your business to enhance your staff’s professional and/or interpersonal skills through away days, multi-day retreats or lunchtime labs. Teambuilding, communication techniques, mindfulness and strategic planning are just some of the themes that we can explore in workshops tailored to your business’s specific needs.

Our highly trained actors can share their skills in speech, oration and projection, as well as movement, body language, prop incorporation and presentation in communication/presentation workshops inspired by our work with graduates from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. We could include, for example, ‘Train the Trainer’ sessions to enhance the presentation skills of training delivery staff as well as speech techniques, body language and movement training for external-facing employees. Just as an actor commands the stage, so your employees can command a board room, sales meeting or conference!

Our drama therapists can work with individuals and teams to support interpersonal communication, staff relations and wellness through techniques that help to develop listening and expressing skills, setting and respecting boundaries, mindfulness and general wellbeing. And our project managers can support your strategic planning by providing training in our own rigorous methodologies to research and develop new projects from initial idea through feasibility and into outcome. The process we use to move from hundreds of possible shows to the two or three that make it on the stage, translates extremely well into the business environment.

Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre sit at the cultural heart of Dundee as a centre of creative excellence.

Together our twin ensembles have established a reputation as one of the UK’s leaders in theatre and dance production, carrying the Dundee brand far and wide.  We look outwards, creating and delivering work for local, national and international audiences. Learning sits at the heart of all we do, underpinned by our vision of ‘inspiring community transformation and wellbeing through the arts’.

As an organisation, we are agile and responsive. During the early days of the pandemic, our creative team conceived and produced ‘Where are you Dundee’ using our online presence to create short pieces involving tasks or ideas in which people could participate. This attracted an audience of over 120,000, earning multiple awards, and was the result of our multi-artform team of professionals bringing their skills, experience and creativity together to support public mental health and wellbeing during lockdown.

Dundee Rep Theatre ensemble actors are full-time Rep employees, professionally trained and with decades of experience in theatre, film, television, and radio, performing in drama, comedy, documentaries and musicals. Dundee Rep has also served as place of education and instruction for many years and we are experts in using drama as a vehicle for learning with students and now with business organisations too.

More than a theatre, more than a dance company, and more than a building with a stage, full of artists and creatives, Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre is a valuable and relevant resource for Scotland and the UK.