PHYSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOPS
PERFORMANCES AND JAM IN LIVERPOOL
Tmesis Theatre is happy to be hosting the 5th Physical Fest and to continue the close association with Hope Street Ltd which houses the festival. Since it’s inception in 2005 the festival has grown but maintained it’s welcoming and warm atmosphere. We are happy to bring new and exciting practitioners from all over the world as well as people we have met along the way such as Jean Sasportes who invited us to perform at his festival in Germany in 06 and Gennadi Bogdanov who we worked with in 05. After an excellent workshop from Yoshi Oida last year we are very pleased to host his solo show for the first time in the northwest as well as our re-worked and very personal, first piece, Tmesis.
21st-30th May 09
Hosting:
Yoshi Oida
Jean - Laurent Sasporters (Pina Bausch Tanztheater)
Gennadi Bogdanov (Biomechanics)
Jorge Lopes Ramos (Zecora Ura)
Airborne Entertainement
Tmesis Theatre
and
many more....
PERFORMANCES:
YOSHI OIDA
INTERROGATIONS
30/5/09
TMESIS THEATRE
Tmesis
28&29/5/09
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FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
MAIN WORKSHOP TRAINING
THURS 21ST -& FRI 22ND MAY - 2 DAY WORKSHOP (11-17.00)
GENNADI BOGDANOV- BIOMECHANICS
About the workshop...
Biomechanics is an approach to actor training and to theatre developed by Russian actor, director and teacher, Vsevolod Meyerhold during the 1920’ and 1930’s. Biomechanics begins with physical training, the intention being to forge the connection between mind and body. This workshop will look at the preparatory training including, rhythm, space, geometry of movement, balance and physical control, basic principles of actor’s gesture construction and elements of Meyerholds classic etudes, highly stylised movement pieces.
About Gennnadi....
Gennadi Bogdanov is the founding director of the Moscow School of Theatrical Biomechanics and instructor of Biomechanics at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS), the Moscow theatre school founded by Vseveld Meyerhold. Bogdanov developed his methods through extensive study with Nikolai Kustov, actor and teacher in Meyerhold's theatre. He worked for twenty years in the Moscow Academic Theater. An actor and movement director of more than 25 years experience, Bogdanov has taught Biomechanics all over the world and regularly teaches at Mime Centrum in Berlin and at the International Centre of Biomechanics in Italy. He was honoured in 1997 at Eugenio Barba's World Theatre Conference in Europe.
SAT 23RD AND SUN 24TH MAY - 2 DAY WORKSHOP (11- 17.00)
TMESIS THEATRE (FORMERLY KNOWN AS MOMENTUM) WORKSHOP
About the workshop...
Tmesis Theatre workshops introduce the company's powerful and experimental movement training, exercises for body awareness, movement techniques and looks at physical methods in devising theatre and how improvisation can be used to create material as well as physical starting points for creating characters. Tmesis Theatre's strong physical style of theatre and training methods have been enriched by their challenging collaborations with Derevo and Pina Bausch Tanztheater for the production of Memento Mori and Anima. The workshops are well known for teaching the participants ways to push their barriers through training and improvisation.
About Tmesis Theatre...
Yorgos Karamalegos and Elinor Randle met at Hope Street's Physical Theatre Programme in 2002. Together they formed the company in 2003 and created their first piece "Tmesis" which is re- launching at this year’s festival.
The company style is a strong expressive body language that combines the art of movement/dance with a comic-tragic style of acting, creating theatre accessible to its audience even if the story is abstractly approached. Momentum have brought together some of the best national and international directors/practitioners from the physical theatre world to produce innovative, visually stunning, thought provoking and evocative pieces. The trilogy of Tmesis, Memento Mori and Anima has toured nationally and internationally to critical acclaim. Anima was a Commission of Liverpool Culture Company and a part of the 2008 artistic programme.
MON 25TH TO WED 27TH MAY - 3 DAY WORKSHOP (11-16.00)
JEAN LAURENT SASPORTES (PINA BAUSCH TANZTHEATER)
About the workshop...
The workshop has a technical and creative part. Some elements in the technical part are; feet and the floor, verticality, balance, lengthen and release of muscle chains, articulation, release, and lengthening of the body lines and various body work techniques from dance, Tai chi, Kinomichi, and Feldenkrais. The workshop part is based on the study of the five elements of movement analysis; The Form, Space, Motion, Timing and The rest and essential thing (or “the little flower” from Zeami). Each of those elements is studied separately; then in connection with each other. First of all from an abstract point of view then closing more to an everyday life situation. From this base a use of movement and gesture evolve, which integrates itself into dance, dance theatre, theatre or opera. The largest part of this work is based on improvisation and composition.
Jean’s workshop is suitable for non- dancers and dancers.
About Jean...
Jean-Laurent Sasportes studied dance and has practised Kinomichi (with M. Noro, founder of Kinomichi and of the International Kinomichi Center in Paris) and Tai Chi for more than twenty years. From 1979- 1996 Jean was a solo dancer in the Pina Bausch Company,dfdffsffs he still guests as a soloist for the repertory pieces but now dedicates himself mainly to his own work. Jean works as an actor, dancer, dance teacher, choreographer for theatre, dance theatre and opera, works on duets with musicians, he is artistic director of the Ikonclaste festival in Wuppertal and has recently formed a dance theatre company with Malou Airaudo called CafeAda.
FRI 29TH MAY (11-17.00)
AIRBORNE ENTERTAINMENT- FREE RUNNING - 1 DAY WORKSHOP
Airborn Entertainment has been described as "The Next Level in Motion" and is a multi level movement production team based in Liverpool. The workshop will be led by Anthony Doyle (black belt in Kuku Solo Won and national tricking champion) and Kevin Stokes (Hung Gar Kung FU expert and recognised free runner status).
It is a unique and exciting blend of Extreme Martial Art Tricking, Street Acrobatics and Free-Running/Parkour (Currently the fastest growing sport in the UK ).Airborns workshops are taught with a strong emphasis on performance and showmanship, which explains why it is so successful in the media (i.e. Casino Royal). Students will be given an insight to the philosophy behind this art form and be given the opportunity to learn the skills required to safely execute basic strikes, rolls, twists and flips, whilst recognising the hazards by controlling the risks to themselves and others. Everything will be taught through the emphasis and motions of Body-Conditioning, Stance, style and Technique.
SAT 30TH MAY (11-17.00) - 1 DAY WORKSHOP
JORGE LOPES RAMOS / BRAZIL- INTERCULTURAL PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE
About the workshop...
Jorge Lopes Ramos will be drawing on Japanese Butoh principles to approach ways to transform the body's inner and outer life in solo performance and Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Angola to provide artists with a deeper understanding of their performance potential though acrobatics, voice, movement and rhythm exercises. The work will introduce the company's approach to actor training and creative work through the development of existing skills and the introduction of new approaches to physical performance. We will touch on voice, body and movement through exercises that give actors new ways of experiencing their body and opening up ways of seeing the performative body through rhythm and imagination.
About Jorge...
After his early career as an actor in Brazil, Jorge has worked consistently as a theatre director in London for many years. His work has toured internationally and it is known for it’s innovation and boldness. For the past five years Jorge has also taught worldwide in his radical approach to theatre- The Body as a Channel. Jorge is co-founder and artistic director of ZECORA URA Theatre Company and network.
EVENING CLASSES/EVENTS
PERFORMANCES& JAM
THURS 21ST MAY- FESTIVAL LAUNCH @ HOPE STREET LTD @ 7PM
Launch with drinks to celebrate the start of the Fest with film extracts from the festival’s practitioners.
SAT 23RD MAY (18-20.00)- EVENING CLASS - CAPOEIRA
CORDAO DE OURO- CONTRA MESTRE PARENTE
Capoeira is an art form, a way of life, a story of survival from slavery, rich in history, friendship, fight, dance, culture, music & mandinga (magic).Capoeira is a dynamic Brazilian Martial Art that originates from the Afro-Brazilian Slaves. The game is played to the rhythms of live music and songs.
Contra Mestre Parente is one of UK's best Capoeira teachers and Momentum are proud to host him at their festival.
"Parente's commitment and hard work are a great example to us all, and we are all proud to be a part of the biggest Capoeira group in the North West" Cordao De Ouro
manchesterliverpoolcapoeira.co.uk
MON 25TH MAY (17.00-18.30)
PILATES WITH ALICIA SMITH - EVENING CLASS
Through a series of slow controlled movements, Pilates focuses on strengthening the ‘core ‘ muscles that stabilise and support the spine, realigning the body and correcting postural problems, bringing more awareness of the body.
TUES 26TH MAY (19.00-21.00)
JAM AND PERFORMANCE EVENING
@ HOPE STREET LTD (OPEN TO THE PUBLIC- FREE)
19.00 - COVER
A duet like no other, a girl dances with her bedclothes. Exploring issues of addiction and dependance.
Performed by Maria Malone and Christopher Murray.
Original concept and devising from Marcus Drummond and directorial input from Yorgos Karamalegos.
19.45- JAM
An hour of live non- stop improvisation from the practitioners and participants of the festival. An energetic theatrical experience not to be missed.
RSVP asap to physicalfest@momentumtheatre.com to participate or be in the audience.
WED 26TH MAY (18.00-19.00)
Samba de Roda with Maria Malone
An introduction to Brazilian Samba de Roda, an improvised social dance from Brazil involving singing, musical instruments, energy and fun!
SAT 30TH MAY- FESTIVAL CLOSING PARTY- 9.30PM
More details on festival's closing party coming soon........
PERFORMANCES AT THE UNITY THEATRE
28-29th MAY (8PM) - UNITYTHEATRE
TMESIS THEATRE
presents
Winner of Best New Show 2003 Daily Post Key Awards
A tale of universal significance - The Stage
Beautiful sensitivity...seduces us into it's unexpected world
**** Irish Times
Rarefied…intriguing…pure and beautiful…performed with exquisite precision
The Guardian
Totally Mesmerising
Daily Post
Click Here to watch a video of Tmesis (as performed in 2003 and 2005)
Tmesis was first made in 2003 and has toured nationally and internationally, the company have re-worked their successful first piece for two performers for Physical Fest. Striking visuals, acrobatics, movement and music combine in this beautiful ancient Greek story of the origin of love and the reason why we search for our other half.
Tmesis is based on Aristophanes speech from Plato's Symposium about the origin of love and it takes you back to the time where there were three different sexes, the man the woman and the hermaphrodite.
These eight-limbed creatures with two heads and the conflict with Gods and its power is a mesmerising evolutionary journey from the ancient Greek years to the modern man.
TICKETS: 0151 709 4988 or unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk
30th MAY (8PM) - UNITY THEATRE
YOSHI OIDA
presents
INTERROGATIONS
"Yoshi Oida shows how the mysteries and secrets of performance are inseparable from a precise, concrete and detailed science learned in the heat of experience.The vital lessons he passes on to us are told with such lightness and grace that typically the difficulties become invisible"
Peter Brook
"We are proud to host for a second time at our festival the big master of theatre Yoshi Oida"
Tmesis Theatre
The Koan is a collection of « words » written by Zen Masters and conserved in Chinese monasteries between then 11th and 13th centuries. In Japan today, Zen Buddhism continues, and in the meditation in the Rinzai sect, the master will ask questions on the ‘words’ of the Koan. To find a response to a question may take several years, may be even a lifetime… During the early 1960s, I travelled the world with Peter Brook’s experimental company, encountering audiences of every type and culture, Always asking key questions such as “What it Theatre? With Interrogations, I am returning to the spirit of those years of travelling, encountering, and creating, using the texts of the Koan as a starting point.
Live music by Dieter Trüstedt
TICKETS: 0151 709 4988 or unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk
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Prices for workshops:
Please book early to avoid disappointment.
Email: physicalfest@tmesistheatre.com or call us on: 0781 330 1517.
TMESIS THEATRE WOULD LIKE TO THANK:
Everyone at Hope Street, Unity Theatre, Keith's Wine Bar
and all the faithful Physical Fest friends.
