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BodyConstitution: practical seminar Thu-Sun 10–13 April 2014 Na Grobli Studio (workshops, training sessions, work demonstrations, lectures, a film screening, conversations) Laboratory Theatre Space (Caesarean Section: Essays on Suicide, performance by Teatr ZAR) BodyConstitution is a programme of research in practice at the Grotowski Institute. BodyConstitution is a programme of practical seminars, open workshops and work demonstrations. BodyConstitution is a platform for conscious, consistent and responsible work on the body through the creation of a “lexicon” of analysis and description of movement techniques and practices. BodyConstitution combines action and reflection to build a deep body culture. BodyConstitution is a pilot educational programme focused on teaching methodology, based on the experience and practice of studios and artistic groups working at the Grotowski Institute. It is aimed at young actors from Poland and Norway. The project, which will run from January 2014 to April 2016, will include a series of trainings, work sessions, seminars and academies with Polish and Norwegian students and pedagogues, and will culminate in April 2016 in a practical seminar held as part of European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016, which will present the results of sessions held between 2014 and 2016 and feature special guests. The project centres on physical actor training, its problems, teaching and self-study, on opening up for new methods of theatre work and on an innovative methodology of the actor’s work understood as his selfdevelopment with particular emphasis on selfdiagnosis and selfreflection as well as the ability to communicate the actor's processes. One of the main premises of the project is a belief that the creative development of artistic work methods is possible mainly through the constant confrontation of learned techniques with the experience, richness and variety of methods developed by teachers and artists from other traditions and cultures. With this in mind, the Grotowski Institute, together with the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and the PWST National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków Branch in Wrocław, wants to create a space for meeting, sharing experiences and learning from invited Polish and Norwegian teachers as well as prominent artists and masters of movement techniques representing various traditions and bodywork methods (martial arts, techniques from the borders of theatre, dance and contact improvisation). This exchange will take place both at the practical/workshop level and in the domain of theoretical reflection. One of the central objectives of BodyConstitution will be to show the diversity and multi-valance of body practices: from body objectification to body subjectification, from “having a body” to “being a body”. We would also like to build a practical and theoretical heuretics and hermeneutics of the body. BodyConstitution is a creative extension of the activities focused around acting techniques that have been happening at the Grotowski Institute since 2004. The core of BodyConstitution will be comprised by groups currently in residence at the Grotowski Institute: studios focused on distinct movement traditions/techniques and three ensembles that have developed their own performer training approaches based on source movement techniques:
More: www.bodyconstitution.art.pl
PROGRAMME
Thu 10 April 6pm | Na Grobli Studio Opening meeting The opening meeting will include a presentation of the brief and aims of the project “BodyConstitution: Intercultural dialogue on actor training – a series of work sessions, academies and seminars with drama schools students from Poland and Norway”, undertaken as part of the programme “Promotion of Diversity in Culture and Arts within European Cultural Heritage within the EEA FM 2009–2014”. Participants will include representatives of the institutions that partner with the Grotowski Institute in this project. Admission free9pm | Laboratory Theatre Space Caesarean Section: Essays on Suicide Performance by Teatr ZAR Tickets: 20 PLN Bookings and tickets: sekretariat@grotowski-institute.art.pl; tel. 71 34 45 320 Online tickets Fri 11 April 9am–11am | Na Grobli Studio Aikido Training led by Piotr Masztalerz, assisted by Przemysław Błaszczak 9am–11am | Na Grobli Studio Capoeira Training led by Mestre Marinaldo Martins Pereira, assisted by Jakub Gontarski 9am–11am | Na Grobli Studio Kalarippayattu (Southern style) Training led by Sankar Lal Sivasankaran Nair 11:30am–3:30pm | Na Grobli Studio Contra/dictions Workshop led by Matej Matejka 11:30am–3:30pm | Na Grobli Studio Where Two Paths Meet Workshop led by Przemysław Błaszczak and Jakub Gontarski 4:30pm | Na Grobli Studio Expression – Movement – Relation: Capoeira Between the Past and the Present Work demonstration and talk by Mestre Marinaldo Martins Pereira Admission free 6pm | Na Grobli Studio Self-diagnosis in Actor Training Lecture by Piotr Bursiewicz Admission free 7:30pm | Na Grobli Studio Body Alphabet A screening of a film documenting Zygmunt Molik’s exercises performed by Jorge Parente, with Ewa Oleszko-Molik’s commentary. Na Grobli Studio Admission free 9pm | Laboratory Theatre Space Caesarean Section: Essays on Suicide Performance by Teatr ZAR Tickets: 20 PLN Bookings and tickets: sekretariat@grotowski-institute.art.pl; tel. 71 34 45 320 Online tickets Sat 12 April 9am–11am | Na Grobli Studio Aikido Training led by Piotr Masztalerz, assisted by Przemysław Błaszczak 9am–11am | Na Grobli Studio Capoeira Training led by Mestre Marinaldo Martins Pereira, assisted by Jakub Gontarski 9am–11am | Na Grobli Studio Kalarippayattu (Southern style) Training led by Sankar Lal Sivasankaran Nair 11:30am–3:30pm | Na Grobli Studio Contra/dictions Workshop led by Matej Matejka 11:30am–3:30pm | Na Grobli Studio Where Two Paths Meet Workshop led by Przemysław Błaszczak and Jakub Gontarski 4:30pm | Na Grobli Studio The Use of Corporal Codes in the Practice and Teaching of Martial Arts Sword work demonstration by Daniel Brunner Shihan Admission free 6pm | Na Grobli Studio Somaesthetics: Between Theory and Practice A lecture by Lilianna Bieszczad 9pm | Laboratory Theatre Space Caesarean Section: Essays on Suicide Performance by Teatr ZAR Tickets: 20 PLN Bookings and tickets: sekretariat@grotowski-institute.art.pl; tel. 71 34 45 320 Online tickets Sun 13 April 9am–11am | Na Grobli Studio Aikido Training led by Piotr Masztalerz, assisted by Przemysław Błaszczak 9am–11am | Na Grobli Studio Capoeira Training led by Mestre Marinaldo Martins Pereira, assisted by Jakub Gontarski 9am–11am | Na Grobli Studio Kalarippayattu (Southern style) Training led by Sankar Lal Sivasankaran Nair 11:30am–3:30pm | Na Grobli Studio Contra/dictions Workshop led by Matej Matejka 11:30am–3:30pm | Na Grobli Studio Where Two Paths Meet Workshop led by Przemysław Błaszczak and Jakub Gontarski 4:30pm | Na Grobli Studio Fighting Μonkey Practice Work demonstration by Jozef Frucek Admission free 6pm | Na Grobli Studio Source Techniques in Actor Training Jean-Marie Pradier in conversation with Jarosław Fret Admission free 9pm | Laboratory Theatre Space Caesarean Section: Essays on Suicide Performance by Teatr ZAR Tickets: 20 PLN Bookings and tickets: sekretariat@grotowski-institute.art.pl; tel. 71 34 45 320 Online tickets All events will be held in Polish and English. The seminar is a part of the project “BodyConstitution: Intercultural dialogue on actor training – a series of work sessions, academies and seminars with drama schools students from Poland and Norway”, undertaken as part of the programme “Promotion of Diversity in Culture and Arts within European Cultural Heritage” within the EEA FM 2009–2014. Supported by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Grants and co-financed by Polish founds. The organizers reserve the right to modify the programme. |