Physical Theatre Course

This Course is a great opportunity to explore Jacques Lecoq’s Techniques and Physical Theatre.The central idea is to release preconditioned views of acting and to explore new espressive possibilities.

Students are introduced to physical exercises, movement improvisation, movement analysis, and devising process to discover the expressive possibilities of their body and to developed self awareness.

BREAKDOWN OF THE COURSE.
The course will be articulated in two modules:

- 1st Module. Encountering with your own body.
The first module will be based on “meeting with your own body”! Exploring in which ways we can move in a more sustainable, playful and creative way.
We will be working on playfulness, core connection, gravity and balance. We will explore how our body can function better when we use our core to generate movement, and which kind of movements we can create when we “move from the centre”.
We will investigate the concept of balance, equilibrium and disequilibrium, and how we can perform them in order to create drama and action.

- 2nd Module. Applied Techniques.
Starting from this acquired exploration of our own body we will then move towards studying fundamental movement principals, discovering time, space, rhythm, shapes and gestures.
In this module students will be asked to observe reality and nature and to analyze the interconnection between the human body and reality.
Therefore we will be working on embodying states of flow, resistance, push and pull and natural integral forces regulating nature and life.

JACQUES LECOQ PEDAGOGY

The central idea in Lecoq’s pedagogy is that theatre is a poetic medium and the performer is first of all a poet. His language is the body. Lecoq’s pedagogy trains the body of the performer to be able to become a poetic instrument. At the base of this poetry of the body there is mime. For Lecoq “mime” doesn’t simply means: imitation of reality. A mime is, first of all, somebody who can observe the world around him, take an impression in his body and then represent it through gestures.

A physical theatre performer has the capacity to listen and observe the reality around him and to generate impressions. Once this process is activated the performer is able to transpose this reality with and through the body into poetical shapes and gestures.

Within the poetical shapes, the personality of the artist comes out, in the way he treats these elements of poetry. But it’s not about him, it’s about his relationship with the world.

The real talent of the performer is not to act but to re-act. It’s about the ability of the actor to see, reflect and respond.

The drive of this course is to inspire participants to start a journey within their body. We aim to provide you the opportunity to be a creator in shaping your own sustainable practice, experimenting the potentials hidden in your body.

Duration of the course: 3rd of May – 19th of July. 12 weeks consecutive course.

3 hours weekly class. Every Wednesday from 7pm to 10 pm.

This course welcomes students from different backgrounds and interests. We want to offer a stimulating and challenging space in which students will be able to experiment, acknowledge and create, using their body to create a dialogue with creativity.

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