In the framework
of
Holstebro Kommune - Odin Teatret - IKC,
Interkulturelt Center
(WORKOUT FOR
INTERCULTURAL NAVIGATORS - THEATRE AS SOCIAL INTERFERENCE) 2012
programme
LOST IN THE FOREST - ACTOR'S DRAMATURGY AND
CHARACTERS
A 4 week workshop led by Pierangelo Pompa (director of Altamira
Laboratory in residence at Odin Teatret)
29 October - 25 November 2012
In week 47 we will visit the residential
care homes of Holstebro with 30 minutes of songs and colourful
scenes.
Calendar:
Monday 19 November at 3 p.m.: Plejebolig Beringsvej
Tuesday 20 november at 10 a.m.: Plejebolig Parkvej
Wednesday 21 November at 11 a.m.: Sønderland center -
barter with the locals and the theatre group.
Thursday 22 November at 2 p.m.: Plejebolig Mellemtoft
Friday 23 November at 11 a.m.: Plejebolig Thorsvej .
The workshop will focus on actor's dramaturgy in its various
phases - from training to the final montage of a performance. Each
participant will create a character for one or several interwoven
scenes which will be shown at Odin Teatret, in old people's homes
and in other places in Holstebro.
The work will start every day with physical training aiming to
detect a common technical language based upon some fundamental
principles of the craft:
- physical actions: which is to say the smallest unity of stage
behaviour;
- action's segmentation, and synchronization of physical and
vocal impulses: the necessary premises for a dialogue through
actions, music, songs and words.
During the workshop each participant will have to invent a
character in reference to the theme "Lost in the forest",
understood in its literal and metaphoric, geographical or personal
meaning. The individual characters will be developed through
physical composition (postures, rhythms, dynamic qualities, etc.),
and the use of costumes and props as organic extensions of the
actor's body. Various forms of improvisation and different
strategies for the creation of personal stage material will be
applied. Each character will unfold its own particular gestures and
ways of relating with other figures and with the space, using
narrative, visual, musical, biographical and other kinds of
references as inspiration and according to a coherent motivated
stage behaviour.
The material developed by the participants will be elaborated
together with the director and put into relationship with partners
and music, placed in different spaces, inserted in brief scenes,
underlining the creative tension between the dramaturgy of each
single actor and the demands of a general dramaturgy.
On arrival in Holstebro, each participant must present a costume
to be improved during the workshop, and three props that
distinguish the character. A week before the beginning of the
workshop, the participants must send half a page with the
information they consider fundamental in relationship to their
character (to pierangelopompa@gmail.com).
The participants should also know three songs and three texts by
heart in their own language connected to the theme of the workshop.
The texts must be of about half a page length and can be of any
kind: poetry, prose, newspaper articles, etc. A musical instrument
can be used. Other kind of already worked upon material is welcome,
provided it is connected to a personal interpretation of the theme
"Lost in the forest".
The programme can include meetings with various members of Odin
Teatret and with its director Eugenio Barba; performances and work
demonstrations by Odin Teatret and other guest performances;
historical and theoretical lectures by the staff of OTA (Odin
Teatret Archives), with films and videos from the archives.
The common work language is English. The director can also
communicate on a personal level in Italian, Spanish and French.
The workshop is open to a maximum of ten participants.
PIERANGELO POMPA, born in Rome, (Italy) in
1979, is a theatre director. Since 2006, he has worked at Odin
Teatret as Eugenio Barba's assistant in various productions and
projects in Denmark, Italy and Taiwan. In 2008 he founded in Italy
the Altamira Laboratory, with performances and teaching activity,
also at the Centre of University Theatre at the University of
Ferrara. Since 2008 he has directed: I Look at the Sea
(Antas Teatro), Don Giovanni - A Scherzo for Servant and
Master (Altamira Laboratory) and Twelve Good Words
(Altamira Laboratory-Antas Teatro), and The Garden
(Altamira Laboratory-CTU Ferrara). In 2012, in residence at Odin
Teatret, he has directed the international project The Misty
Road to a Performance. He completed his university studies in
theatre history and Chinese language and literature. He specialised
in Chinese classic theatre and has made several stays in China and
Taiwan, studying in particular the writings of Mei Lanfang. Since
2009, he has published essays and reports in the Italian magazine
"Teatro e Storia".
FEE: DKK 4.000 (about
500 Euro) for the whole period, including spartan
lodging in the Odin guesthouse, free access to services (kitchen,
laundry, internet), use of working venues and stage equipment.
Participants will be requested to help with the practical tasks of
life at Odin Teatret, including daily cleaning.
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