theatre laboratory
The purpose is to create a group of people who train together towards a performative result. It is necessary the group to be fixed and keep the same through the whole duration of the laboratory in order to promote the mutual trust on each other and on the work and to help the individual development through the group experience. Every meeting is divided into two parts. The first part concentrates on the actor's physical and vocal training and the second part is dedicated on composition/creation-
Concerning the training:
Through an intense body/mind connection, the exploration of different qualities of energy and the experience of uncomfortable zones in the body and voice, the training aims to help the actor break his automatisms and reach a stage expression beyond his physical habits and clichés. The actor will work not towards a body that moves, but towards a body free of personal blockings and transparent enough to communicate a story, through movement or stillness.
The training is based on the technique of physical and vocal actions and exercises the ability of the actor to treat his physical and vocal instrument with conscience, detail and precision, as well as to engage his body and mind in acting (to act= to realize actions)- not in description, nor pretension. Through real actions (movements with real impulses) the actor will focus on how to build his own presence on stage.
Concerning the creation:
At the beginning individual scores of actions will be built which gradually will be merged together into one piece/performance. The starting point is old family photographs. Every participant must bring one old song, one old family photo and one poem.
Contents:
- Training: body/mind connection, spherical awareness, breathing, rhythm, flow, resistance, energy, concentration, balance/unbalance, work with weight
- Creation: difference movement/action, construction of physical and vocal scores of actions, interaction between organic and narrative dramaturgy, repetition, relation body/space, improvisation/connection between text/body.
Space: TheaterSpiel Raum, Mariannenplatz 2B, Bethanien, Berlin Kreuzberg
Dates: Mondays 30.1- 26.3, 11-15h
*It is obligatory the participation in every meeting.
The laboratory is conducted in English.
Cost: 150 euro
Contact:
030 44 04 01 43
0174 57 58 138