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• Training: physical (plastics, dynamic–impulse relation, rhythmic body, actor’s acrobatics), vocal (breathing and emission techniques, physical resonators, vocals, dynamic and agogic) and singing (monodic and choral singing, chironomia, pitch and modulation, voice–movement–space relationship)

• Creative Work: improvisation and dynamic use of space, composition’s exercises, actor’s composition and dramaturgy, creative pathway, techniques of montage. A final montage, based on the proposed text, will be show as conclusion of the work.

Stand’al mondo senza ’l mondo, premiere of Regula contra Regulam Teatro’s piece created as part of the Regola dei Laudesi programme

Raúl Alejandro Iaiza born in Argentina in 1964. He is a theater director and educator, with expertise as a classical musician. He is the founder and Director of Regula contra Regulam Theatre (Milan, Italy), a theater laboratory that works in the areas of education, production and research, with particular attention to theatre research and music. From 2000 to 2011 he was Assistant Director to Eugenio Barba at Odin Teatret (Holstebro, Denmark) for the following performances: Salt, Andersen’s Dream, Don Juan in Hell and The Chronic Life. Since 2007 he has led Regula contra Regulam, the Grotowski Institute’s educational project including educational programs (Open Sessions) and research (Regola dei Laudesi, Fugue on Training). As a director and educator, he regularly collaborates with institutions around the world such as Diaspora/National Theatre of Scotland (Glasgow, 2008), Hooyong Performing Arts Centre (South Korea, 2008–2010), Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Seminario Jolie Libois, Festival Mercosur (Argentina, 2009–2011), Comedia Cordobesa, En surco ajeno (Argentina, 2012), Totentanz, Ensemble Pange Lingua (Switzerland, 2012), International Summer Academy (Paris, 2013).

Isabelle Maurel read history of art and studied Butoh dance with Masaki Iwana. She has been involved in improvised dance for more than 20 years. After meeting Elsa Wolliaston, with whom she danced the duo The Rival of Ishtar, she began studying dance in West Africa. She discovered Kongo dance with Chrysogone Diangouaya, with whom she collaborated on choreographic and arts projects for many years. She has been teaching improvisation and Afro-American cultural history since 1999 at Free Dance Song. Every year she stages street performances with students and professional dancers. As a solo dancer, she participated in the projects Sharing all Voices and Voices for Tomorrow of the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation, of which she is a member. She works regularly in Africa on training projects and contemporary dance performances (Centre de Siraba BoboDiolasso, Festival Dance Rue de Brazzaville, Workshops ExCorps A-à Dakar). She collaborates with visual artists, with poets, actors and jazz musicians in Paris.

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