Company Project
Transdisciplinary Physical Theatre Training in Barcelona
The Company Project is not a typical theatre course: it is a theatre-making journey
culminating in one or several performances of an original work. At the same time, it is a dynamic environment designed for those looking for a unique and impactful approach beyond traditional schools: professional performers aiming to refine their stage language, experienced practitioners exploring new methods, and theatre enthusiasts wishing to engage deeply with a guided artistic process. It can also serve as a starting point for those interested in joining the theatre company that Samuel is creating in Barcelona.
Over the span of the course, you will receive a comprehensive introduction to Transdisciplinary Physical Theatre, along with practical tools for performance and production — from psychophysical training and research to concept development and staging.
At the same time, you will work as in a professional company, supported by the guidance of an experienced director. You will have the opportunity to experiment, take creative risks, and develop your performance skills, within a process where artistic vision, technique, and collaboration intersect to produce a compelling and transformative theatre experience.
Physical Theatre training
Rehearsal Company Project Berlin
Areas of Study
- Training and techniques in Physical Theatre
- Performance techniques for theatre and film/TV
- Improvisation and choreography
- Noh and Butoh theatre
- Installation, Body Art, and Performance
- Development of a visual-poetic language
- Time and space as artistic elements
- Physical actions according to Grotowski
- Emotional expression (working with genuine emotions)
- Object theatre
Who is this course for?
The Company Project is open to participants with or without previous experience. Both formally trained artists and self-taught practitioners from any discipline — acting, dance, acrobatics, music, visual arts — are welcome, as well as those without performing arts experience who come with curiosity and motivation.
We deeply value the richness of this mix. Over the years, we have seen how the encounter between different paths generates a living, mutual learning experience: professionals are refreshed, beginners dare — and often surprise. Here, it is not your prior experience that defines your place in the process, but your presence, your commitment, and your willingness to be moved by the work.
Working together
Final performance
Director
Samuel Núñez is a theatre director, filmmaker, coach, and performing arts teacher specializing in emotional expression, actor direction, Physical Theatre, and transdisciplinary performance. With over 25 years of theatrical research, he has explored, systematized, and developed techniques for directing and training artists, creating his own methodology. He currently works in Germany and Catalonia. You can read more about him in Samuel’s biography.
Practical Information
Duration
November 2025 to April 2026
Schedule One day per week, from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM (day to be confirmed)
Languages Spanish, English, German (you only need to speak one)
More información: info@samuelnunez.de
Past Company Projects
Company Project OTR@
Theatre Class in Barcelona starting March 2024
During the Company Project OTR@ ("OTHER") we are going to immerse ourselves in a collective process of research and creation that will be based on the play "In the Solitude of Cotton Fields" by Bernard-Marie Koltès:
How to communicate with the OTHER? How to accept their difference? Is there a way to love them? Or is love just another kind of trade, a selfish and cynical exchange? In a world in which differences of all sorts keep human beings in continuous conflicts, is dialogue possible? Is it possible to trust the other, the unknown, the different? Is trust possible?
- Physical Theater training
- Training in emotional expression
- Dramaturgy in motion
- Installation & Body Art
- Improvisation and choreography
- Noh Theater, Butoh
- Physical actions according to Grotowski
- Text and concept work (depending on the piece)
- Translating text into movement
- Time and space as elements of a performance
- Development of the transdisciplinary visual poetic language
Reading
Bernard-Marie Koltès: "In the Solitude of Cotton Fields"
Eugenio Barba: "The Paper Canoe"
Jerzy Grotowski: "Towards a Poor Theatre"
Peter Brook: "The Empty Space"
Working in a group
Final showing
Performance STEPPE / Company Project Berlin
Closed & past Projects
Company Project STEPPENWOLF
Physical Theatre class in Barcelona / Final performance in February!
As a lamb I go through the world, trying to adapt.
Be a good citizen. Accomplish the goals of others.
Without looking at the wolf that I carry inside, that demands that I be myself.
Be authentic. Be free.
During this Company Project we are going to immerse ourselves in the elaboration of a performance based on the novel Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse.
Points of study
- Physical Theater training
- Training in emotional expression
- Dramaturgy in motion
- Installation, body art and performance
- Improvisation and choreography
- Noh Theater, Butoh
- Physical actions according to Grotowski
- Text and concept work (depending on the piece)
- Body-based role work
- Development of the visual poetic language
- Working in front of the camera
- Tools for group work
Reading:
H. Hesse: "Steppenwolf"
Further reommended reading: A. Artaud: "The Theatre and Its Double", J. Grotowski: "Towards a Poor Theatre", E. Barba: "The Paper Canoe", P. Brook: "The Empty Space". 
Performance "L´Inferno di Dante", Barcelona 2019
Performance "HamletMachine", Barcelona 2020
More information
Place
La
Salamandra, Carrer de Burgos, 55, Barcelona-Sants
The current project is full already, but new groups will start soon.
Further information & registration info@samuelnunez.de
Project KING LEAR
Theatre of Objects Intensive Course
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars.
We will immerse ourselves in the elaboration of a transdisciplinary performance focused on the potential and tools of the theater of objects. Our main inspiration will be Shakespeare's "King Lear" .
Main topics
- Physical theater training
- Improvisation and choreography
- Poetry of the object
- Masks
- Hybrid puppets
- Time and space
- Dramaturgy
- Development of visual poetic language
- Emotional expression
- Tools for working in groups
Recommended reading:
W. Shakespeare: "King Lear", J. Grotowski: "Towards a Poor Theatre", P. Brook: "The Empty Space".
Director
Samuel Núñez
Languages
Spanish, English, German (one of those is enough)
Information and inscription
Performance Project Metamorphosis
Physical Theatre Intensive Training
After a certain point there is no return. That's the point we have to reach.
Franz Kafka
During this Performance Project we are going to immerse ourselves in the development of a performance inspired by Kafka's novel The Metamorphosis.
Topics
- Physical Theatre training and techniques
- Improvisation and choreografy
- Noh Theatre, Butoh
- Dramaturgy in movement
- Installation and Body Art
- Text and concept work
- Development of the visual poetic language
- Body based role building
- Physical actions according to Grotowski
- Emotional expression techniques
- Tools for working in groups
Recommended lecture: F. Kafka: "Metamorphosis", A. Artaud: "The Theatre and Its Double", J. Grotowski: "Towards a Poor Theatre", E. Barba: "The Paper Canoe", P. Brook: "The Empty Space"
Information and inscription
Performance Project HamletMachine
Physical Theatre Intensive Training from October 2019
I am not Hamlet. I don’t play a role anymore.
My words have nothing more to tell me. My thoughts suck the blood out of the images. My drama is cancelled.
Behind me the set is being built. By people my drama doesn’t interest, for people it doesn’t concern.
It doesn’t interest me anymore either. I won’t play along anymore.
During this project we are going to immerse ourselves in the development of a performance on the postmodern play Hamletmachine
by Heiner Müller.
Topics
- Physical Theatre Training
- Noh Theatre, Butoh
- Dramaturgy in movement
- Installation and Body Art
- Improvisation and choreografy
- Space and time as elements of theater production
- Transgression of the role and dramatic structure
- Text work based on body and emotion work (not from the point of view of classical theater, but of integral theater, based on laboratory theater work by Jerzy Grotowski)
- Tools for working in groups
Recommended lecture: H. Müller: "Hamletmachine", A. Artaud: "The Theatre and Its Double", J. Grotowski: "Towards a Poor Theatre", E. Barba: "The Paper Canoe", P. Brook: "The Empty Space"
Information and inscription
Performance Project L'inferno di Dante
Physical Theatre Intensive Training from October 2019
"Halfway through life,
I found myself in a dark wood
because my route I had lost. -
Well then, find a guide,
Start to walk
and knock down the door of your hell. "
We will work on a performance based on the classic play "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
Main topics
- Physical theater techniques
- Expressionist work with masks
- The clown in magical realism
- Surralism
- Butoh
- Dramaturgy in motion
- Installation, Body Art
- Video Art
- Tools for group work
Recommended lecture:Dante Alighieri: "Divine Comedy", J. Grotowski: "Towards a Poor Theatre"
Information and inscription