TmesisTheatre
in association with Hope Steet Ltd
present
7 DAYS OF EXCITING PHYSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOPS
30TH OF MAY TO 6TH OF JUNE 2006
with workshops from
MARIE-GABRIELLE ROTIE (Butoh UK)
Andrea Buckley (CH4PTER)
TMESIS THEATRE (Yorgos Karamalegos & Elinor Randle)
CORPUS SOMA/EX-GENERAL LUDD (Yorgos Bakalos)
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Physical Fest is an annual physical theatre workshop festival with the aim to introduce powerful and experimental movement forms and styles, to research into body expression, exchange information between national and international practitioners as well as finding and experimenting with different ways of producing theatre material.
THE WORKSHOPS
BUTOH - BODY OF TRANSFORMATION
MARIE-GABRIELLE ROTIE
TUES 30TH / WED 31ST MAY (£55)
This workshop is suitable for anyone of any age with an interest in movement and no prior experience is necessary. Participants should however be in a general state of good health.
Butoh acts as a radical challenge and catalyst for a deep and personal enquiry into the moving body. Butoh is not about doing movement but about being moved. Concentration is turned inward, away from the external mirror image of the body, to encourage a deep connection to the origin and impulses for movement. The body can discover many selves and extend into animal, plant or non-human entities. Each day begins with intensive body training incorporating wave, spiral and circular movement patterns allied to breath and voice. Group and solo structures allow exploration of the fluid interface between inner and outer space and time to enjoy the delicious quality of slow motion work allied to working with dynamic energy and impulses.
Marie-Gabrielle Rotie studied Fine Art and then Dance, encountering Butoh in 1992. She has studied with over 25 Butoh teachers in Japan and Europe and collaborated extensively with Ko Murobushi. Regularly funded by the Arts Council of England she has created works in performance and installation, touring the UK and internationally. Stage works include for The Place Theatre, Laban, Royal Opera House and Royal National Theatre. Commissions include for The Place Prize in 2004, several community education projects for Chisenhale Dance Space. Commissioned by International Almaida Dance Festival, she is creating a work for Portuguese dancers, premiering November 2006. Commercial choreography includes for Sir Peter Hall’s ‘Bacchai’ at RNT (2002) and for Armonica Consort ‘Fairy Queen’ (2003). She is director of Butoh UK. www.rotieproductions.com
CONTACT IMPROVISATION
ANDREA BUCKLEY
THURS 1ST JUNE (£30)
Andrea Buckly approaches teaching in a relaxed and supportive way to allow the dancing to spontaneously and effortlessly arise. Participants can fully engage in the process of improvisation and contact work using the tools of listening, watching, exploring and expressing the body into the physical form of dancing fully. From solo to group work the landscape of anatomical imagery will aim to increase creative potential, self awareness, survival mode in the body and energy flow through the heightened observation of our senses.
Andrea Buckley is a freelance dance artist. Improvisation and contact work has been the main source of inspiration and after a 3 year Diploma course at the Laban Centre, London she went on to work with independent choreographers and companies on a project basis. Andrea has travelled abroad to specialise within the improvisation and contact field.
She is involved in presenting projects with CH4PTER and Liverpool Improvisation Collective. Currently Andrea is researching a new solo performance piece with video artist Danny Williams and is a visiting lecturer at Hope University, Liverpool.
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TMESIS THEATRE - Yorgos Karamalegos & Elinor Randle
SAT 3RD / SUN 4TH (£55)
FOR TMESIS WORKSHOP INFO CLICK HERE
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PHYSICAL THEATRE
YORGOS BAKALOS / CORPUS SOMA / EX-GENERAL LUDD
MON 5TH / TUES 6TH JUNE (£55)
The participants will train their voice and body through exercises based on the principles of Meyerhold and Grotowski’s theatre techniques. Through these systems of actors training the participants will explore elements of acting like body awareness, discipline in the space, sense of the rhythm, reaction to impulses. The aim is to work against our tics and physical habits, focusing on the discovery of the neutral presence.
Yorgos Bakalos is an international physical theatre performer/workshop leader and he has worked extensively for companies such as Para Active, La Fura Dels Baus and Senza Tempo. He is a Co-founder/artistic director of General Ludd Physical Theatre Company and Corpus Soma. Yorgos has trained in theatre, specialising in Meyerhold and Grotowski’s theatre techniques. He also trained with Jaroslaw Flet, Phillipe Gaullier, Complicite and Tapa Sudana (Peter Brooks’ actor).
