Gecko

Encountered in CPPM: Term 2

GUEST ARTIST PROFILE

CPPM ENCOUNTER

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SHORT BIOGRAPHY

[TO BE COMPLETED FROM VERIFIED SOURCES]

ARTISTIC PRACTICE

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CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Beginning of professional practice:

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PUBLIC RECOGNITION MILESTONE

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Specific event, production, award, appointment or institutional recognition:

Scale of recognition: local / national / international

Why this moment represents a change in public visibility:

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Confidence: verified / interpretation / still to verify

SELECTED WORKS

[TO BE COMPLETED]

CPPM CONNECTION

Nature of the workshop encounter:

Material to add later from protocols and Weekly Questions:

GECKO — CPPM SOURCE POSITION

CPPM WORKSHOP

The accessible documentation records a two-week Gecko workshop:

29 September–10 October 2025.

The facilitators are identified in the sources only as:

• Lucia;
• Katie.

TWO-WEEK ARC

WEEK ONE:

• tools for entering the Gecko physical language;
• preparation and ensemble attunement;
• breath;
• muttering;
• partnering;
• emotional and archetypal states;
• object work;
• movement composition;
• tools for devising.

WEEK TWO:

• devising in two groups;
• mindmapping;
• five story beats;
• generating physical material;
• selecting and composing scenes;
• transitions;
• technical rehearsal;
• Open Class;
• feedback.

PRACTICE POSITION

The workshop approached performance as:

BODY AND HEART LED.

It privileged:

• physical action;
• emotional availability;
• breath;
• rhythm;
• images;
• relations;
• non-verbal communication;
• ensemble awareness.

INTERNATIONAL PHYSICAL LANGUAGE

The source states that Gecko cannot depend exclusively on verbal language because of its international ensemble context.

Physical language was developed through:

• breath;
• gesture;
• rhythm;
• proxemics;
• contact;
• focus;
• muttering;
• mother tongue;
• recognisable archetypes.

DEVISING

The process moved repeatedly between:

• structured exercises;
• instinctive physical response;
• rapid generation;
• repetition;
• documentation;
• editing;
• feedback;
• longer craft.

ENSEMBLE

The workshop treated the ensemble as a field of co-authorship.

Individual material remained connected to:

• shared rhythm;
• collective awareness;
• mutual care;
• common physical frameworks.

SOURCE LIMIT

These sources document one CPPM workshop.

They do not provide:

• a complete history of Gecko;
• a definitive company methodology;
• an official company manual;
• a full transcript of the final Q&A.