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Activate the body and senses as instruments of perception. Arrive in the nervous system before arriving in the mind.
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Training · December 14–20, 2026
Script the World
You Want to Lead.
Physical Theater Workshop, Experience Design Retreat
A 7-day intensive in Bali for leaders, founders, and experience designers. Train with the movement director behind SEE, Thor, and I Am Legend to build a repeatable practice for creating and leading under uncertainty.
About the Instructor
Paradox Pollack
Movement Director, Cultural Designer
Paradox Pollack is a movement director, choreographer, performer, and creative collaborator with 35+ years across circus, dance, theatre, film, and television. Co-founder of Dream Circus and Mystic Family Circus, he has created work for Cirque du Soleil, performed internationally, and moved into film as a fight choreographer and motion-capture director. His teaching combines physical storytelling, character development, ensemble creation, and performance-making into one practical approach for performers today.
Credits: SEE (Apple TV+), Thor, Star Trek, I Am Legend, Snow White and the Huntsman.
About the Retreat
Return with a documented performance prototype and the exact tools to continue at home.
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You have the ideas and the vision. What you need is a structured, physical space to test them, with other serious people, in a place that demands something real from you.
Seven days of ensemble work, behavioral scripting, and site-specific making at Nuanu, for people who need to turn vision into action.
You will not spend the week talking about change. You will practice it.
Showcase
On the final day of the creative arc, participants test and share their created “worlds” as rituals, interactive scores, or visitor experience prototypes, with the group or invited witnesses.
Daily Format
Morning Session · 3 hoursBody tuning, imagination, movement, script, ensemble work.
Break / Lunch · 1.5 to 2 hours
Afternoon Session · 2 to 3 hoursCreation lab, rehearsal, feedback, site work, enactment.
Optional EveningReflection, salon, video references, integration, or informal gathering.
5–6 hours per day
About Nuanu
A Futuristic Creative City on Bali’s South Coast
Stay inside a 40-hectare eco-luxury destination city where culture, education, creativity, environmental design, and technology share one living environment.
The Daily Engine
7 Days, One Piece
Tune → Script → Shape → Enact → Reflect → Create
Each day moves through all six steps, centered on a different discipline: one repeatable structure for entering creative work with presence, deciding under uncertainty, building with others, and producing something real.
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Accommodations
Labyrinth Bungalows
Accommodation for actors, musicians, and artists in Nuanu’s Communities Zone, beside the Labyrinth music studio and Dome, with a pool, cold plunge, firepit, and sunbeds.
Retreat Packages
Choose Your Experience
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The Method
The 6-Step Paradox Method
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Script
Give the inner world a written structure. Map the image, the tension, the roles, and the transformation you want to create.
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Shape
Turn the script into a form another person can enter: a ritual, a game, a score, a journey, a scene.
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Enact
Put the work into a real body, a real group, a real place. Test it live.
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Reflect
Integrate what the enactment revealed. Adjust, refine, document.
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Create
The final step: bring it back into the world as a repeatable, documented prototype.
Who Should Apply
Built for people who make things happen.
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Applications Open · December 14–20, 2026 · Nuanu, Bali
Script the World