NEW HAMBURG: THE PERFORMER IN CREATION
This workshop is addressed to:
Performers from all artistic fields, professionals or students, interested in developing their craft and devising original work, in a working process that integrates voice and movement, and encourages a deep, nourishing connection to the artist’s unique creative potential and personal resources.
How can the performer develop the capacity to devise original work that emerges from and connects oneself to a unique lifeworld, imagination, embodied experience, playfulness, desire, and creativity?
How might this work be informed by a deep, familiar, and yet surprising integration of voice and movement?
How might these elements of work lead the performer to the possibility of repeating a scene over and over again, in such a way as to preserve the force and subtlety of life and to retain its meaningfulness for the performer?
In this weekend intensive workshop, two days, with eight hours daily, participants will have the opportunity to explore the integration of voice, body, and movement in the process of performance creation and presentation. They will experience and experiment with the complexity of stage behavior and with the dynamics through which each person’s unique imagination and creativity can be accessed and articulated in a scene.
The work will be guided by Graziele Sena, an Afro-Brazilian actress, singer, director, dramaturge, community organizer, and acting instructor, who has honed her unique performance practice, as well as her approach to practice-based research and teaching, through a decade of rigorous training, research, and practice as a key member of the Open Program of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, an international performance research center based in Italy and founded by the renowned Polish director Jerzy Grotowski.
The workshop will feature three interconnected strands of work on the actor’s craft:
Graziele will guide participants through the process of devising a short „original work” based on both original and „found“ material, including a text and/or a song of their choice. Drawing upon their unique personal creative resources and imagination, participants will develop a score that is based on precise and repeatable elements, to compose a short piece with a clear dramatic structure with a beginning, middle, and end. Working together in this process, instructor and participant will also explore the exciting, dynamic process of collaborative creation.
Workshop participants will also be guided through work on songs of the African Diaspora and will have the opportunity to explore the many possibilities presented in singing, through the processes of the vibration of the voice, the dynamic integration of voice and movement, and the performative and personal effects of these integrated process in contact with oneself and with others in a stage context.
The participants will also work on a form of physical training that consists of an uninterrupted sequence of dynamic steps and games. This practice offers participants the possibility of expanding physical abilities and resources, including the performer’s agility, strength, endurance, and balance. However, the main objective of this work is to discover, through playing, individually or in group, a flow of the body’s imagination, its associative world and its emerging impulses, expressed and discovered through small contacts and a flux of intentions and reactions, all of which are essential elements of the work of the performer.
Pedagogic scope
The pedagogic scope comprises practical studies on:
Integration of body and voice, as well movement and voice
Improvisation inside an structure
Precision and spontaneity
Awareness of the space and its constitutive elements
Collaborative creation
Devising original work
Personal process and lived experience
Composition in the technique of organicity
Composition in the tradition of Stanislavski’s and Grotowski’s continuation of the “method of physical actions” and “impulses”
Technical Overview
Dates: 16th and 17th July 2022
Time: 11am to 7pm
Length:16 hours
Maximum number of participants: 12
Participation fee: 150,00
Place: Café Nova, Wilhelmsburger Str. 73, Veddel, 20539 Hamburg
Language:
Portuguese (native), English and Italian
The workshop will be held in English with German translation if required.
Registration: theperformerincreation@gmail.com
More information:
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