Month: December 2013

From November 14 to November 19, 2011.

Led by

Alredo IRIARTE

(Grupo Catalinas Sur / Argentine)

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Thanks to half-masks of the Commedia dell Arte we will enter in the eternal metaphor of human comedy and will discover universal mechanisms of theater.  

 

Program:

-Leather mask: history and principles of construction
-Analysis starting from different forms of masks
-Construction of a leather mask and introduction to the way to perform with it (Each participant will make a leather mask from a pre-existing negative mould)
-Nature of the different mask characters study: Behaviors, postures, gestures…
-Preliminary exercises of Commedia dell Arte.
-Vocal training.
-Individual and group improvisations.
-Commedia dell Arte: references and anecdotes.

 

 

Schedules from Monday to Friday (40 hours of training).

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From October 31 to November 11, 2011.

Led by

Haïm ISAACS

(Roy Hart/ France).

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Vocal Placement:

Breathing exercises, corporal resonances, enlarging the vocal range.

Corporal rhythm:

Coordination between foots stamping, hands clapping and voice singing rhythmic patterns.

Songs:

A wide repertoire (jazz, classic and world music), individual chant, Polyphonic chant, phrasing and rhythm, interpretation and theatricality.

Improvisations:

ased on a song, based on rhythmic or harmonic structures, individual and group improvisations, accompanied by instrument or a Capella.

Explorations:

ounds that go beyond the realm of “pretty” towards texture and vocal landscape.

 

 

Schedules Schedules from Monday to Friday (60 hours of training).

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From October 24 to October 28, 2011.

Led by

Marcelo SAVIGNONE

(Teatro Belisario/ Argentine).

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From the basic technics of improvisation, this workshop offers to participants a way to experiment and evaluate the different performance abilities and dynamics that allow nurturing and developing a theatrical situation.  How to create endless possibilities for the construction of a scene? From simple constraints, the improviser becomes a true instrument of the theatrical creation developing the situations in the now and here. The purpose of this workshop is to refine the availability of the actor in his creation work, to help him to develop a ludic body, to stimulate his own creativity and his capacity to open himself and to associate ideas in the situations he creates.

 

Schedules from Monday to Friday (15 hours of training).

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From October 24 to October 28, 2011.

Led by

Veronica Litvak

(Tango Protesta /Argentine)

 

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The Tango as a tool of performance for the actor allows in a ludic way to work on complicity and the sense of hearing through dance, as a fluent dialog, harmonious, that lays the foundation of the performance between two bodies. Through the music and the body language, an impromptu and spontaneous dance is created. This dance already tells a story, the story of two bodies that discover and learn themselves. As well, it’s a group work even if the tango is a dance for two people; dancers share a grupal experience in a same physical and musical space. In the end what interest us, it’s not to execute perfectly the steps of tango but find in ourselves and with the partner a personal dance that allows to the actors to live physically the sensation to perform together.

Schedules from Monday to Friday (10 hours of training).

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From October 10 to October 14, 2011.

Led by

Enrique FEDERMAN

(Argentine).

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This workshop offers exploring new expressive tools and learning how to use them better on stage.
It doesn’t mean minimizing the importance of the text or the word in the actor’s performance but limiting its use to create other means of expression. For this, we will give the word the same status as other tools, as an additional language to serve the actor’s performance.
During the work we will use tools as silences, gesture economy, ellipses, whispers, searching postures and how to fill space while creating theater scenes.

 

Schedules from Monday to Friday (25 hours of training).

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From September 26 to October 07, 2011.

Led by

Yves MARC

(Théâtre du mouvement / France).

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Objective: Find and develop possible drama vocabularies and dimensions of the movement to lean on for the acting. We will put our attention to the observation of corporal manifestations of though states.  “What do people’s bodies when they think?” The parameters composing and involving those states will be analyzed and experimented: the look (focal and orientation), the breath, the dynamism, the posture (corporal contradictions), auto-contacts. From improvisation games and situation scenario, we will develop theatrical movements variations to the fiction and the creativity.

HSchedules from Monday to Friday (60 hours of training).

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From September 19 to September 23, 2011.

Led by

Sophie GAZEL

(Théâtre Organic / France).

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Fundamentals of acting rely on technicals and emotions.  Emotions enable those technicals to serve life and human representation through the performance. This workshop helps the actors to understand how the technicality could organize the sensibility to serve the performance. Check out the actor’s fundamental expressive tools: Identify body parts and movement, fixed points, suspensions, breath, center of gravity, neutral state, spatial relationships and stage presence notion. Permanencies: Open mind, listening and complicity. Rules of improvisation: What’s a theater proposition? What’s a situation in theater?  The role and the importance of the conflict, how circulates the “jeu”: What’s playing in major and minor keys means? Know to identify when the actor is sender and when he is receiver. Be conscious that the space plays as well: The look structure the space and every movement made on stage receives an answer from the space. The script: When the script starts to play and is no longer only words? What are the tools to stop retreat into idea, meaning and psychological?

Schedules from Monday to Friday (23 hours of training).

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From June 04 to June 09, 2012

Led by

Alredo IRIARTE

(Grupo Catalinas Sur / Argentine)

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Thanks to half-masks of the Commedia dell Arte we will enter in the eternal metaphor of human comedy and will discover universal mechanisms of theater.
Program:
Leather mask: history and principles of construction
Analysis starting from different forms of masks
Construction of a leather mask and introduction to the way to perform with it (Each participant will make a leather mask from a pre-existing negative mould)
Nature of the different mask characters study: Behaviors, postures, gestures…
Preliminary exercises of Commedia dell Arte.
Vocal training.
Individual and group improvisations.
Commedia dell Arte: references and anecdotes.

 

Hours Monday to Friday (42 hours of training).

Full program

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From May 21 to June 01, 2012

Led by

Claire Heggen

(Théâtre du Mouvement / France)

 

 

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This workshop offers to discover an original language and to explore the multiple dimension of dramatic movement, interactively with the object-puppet. The work is based on anatomical capabilities in order to explore the potentials of movement. Exploring, probing, experiencing, creative process: with mime technics and the technic of objects and materials manipulation. The participants will explored these preliminary steps, progressing to the composition of a gestural composition and the dramaturgy, until the finalization of short-forms.
The process includes several steps:

Awakening of the consciousness and mastering the body’s fundamentals: look, breathing, tonicity, posture, states of body.

Exploring an elementary grammar of the body/object relationship, using simple materials. Structuring this relationship in time, space and dynamic. Metaphorical performance with materials.

Creating miniatures composition bringing these principles.

Hours Monday to Friday (60 hours of training).

Full program

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 From April 23 to May 04, 2012

Led by

Alain MOLLOT

(Ecole Lecoq / La Jacquerie / France).

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Le stage

What is the « Drama » ? The word means at the same time an action dark and solemn but as well every kind of theatrical action. What is the tragedy ? What are its basis, its nature and its difference with the drama? How can it serve us in, in an era that takes its distance with the sacred, the religious? That’s what we will explore, always in relation with the performance (text or improvisation).

I – The drama: From three classic scenes, we will search the necessary ingredients to build a dramatic scene.

II- The tragedy: How to build a tragic chorus, to give it a shape and autonomy? What can we make with it relative to the drama? Using the «neutral mask» we will try to work on the elements (water fire, air and earth), to find a cosmic and poetic dimension in the performance. Finally we should fine a mixture of drama and tragedy, to serve the author: Dostoevsky, he offers us a land application about the interpenetration of the two styles. At the end, the participants will work from the texts of Dostoevsky.

 

Hours Monday to Friday (65 hours of training).

Full program

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