BE Next is BE Festivals’s free programme of workshops for young people based in Birmingham. Crossing Borders is going to be the Central Theme of the workshops. ‘Border’: any kind of boundary which may establish differences or similarities among people or groups of people (countries, neighbourhoods, language, clothes…). The workshop will draw on such tools and techniques used in collaborative theatre, such as exercises based on rhythm and choreography, or games which imply the competition and over coming obstacles. Two of the objectives for this worksop will be to explore the notion of collectivity through choral movement and group work, as well as the notion of individuality through charachterisation. The results of the work will be shared with a public audience as part of the final night of the festival