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

   

• Creative Work: improvisation and dynamic use of space; composition exercises, the actor’s composition and dramaturgy; creative pathway; techniques of montage

  The work will culminate in the presentation of a final montage based on the proposed text.

Individual sessions will be conducted at different times according to the development of the work. In the evenings there will be work demonstrations, video screenings and lectures.

Comfortable workwear for strenuous work (spare T-shirts) and a volleyball (or similar) knee-pad. Each actor should prepare a fragment from Blood Wedding by Federico García Lorca, or a fragment based on the text or linked with its main theme. Each actor must bring an elegant costume, complete with shoes. Those who can play a musical instrument are requested to bring it.

Raúl Alejandro Iaiza (born in Argentina in 1964) is a theatre director and educator with a background as a classical musician. He is the founder and Director of Regula contra Regulam Theatre (Milan, Italy), a theatre laboratory that works in the areas of education, production and research, with a particular focus on theatre research and music. From 2000 to 2011 he was Assistant Director to Eugenio Barba at Odin Teatret (Holstebro, Denmark) for the 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 programmes (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 Sharing All Voices and Voices for Tomorrow, the projects of the International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation, of which she is a member. She regularly takes part in training projects and develops contemporary dance performances in Africa (Centre de Siraba BoboDiolasso, Festival Dance Rue de Brazzaville, Workshops ExCorps A-à Dakar). She collaborates with visual artists, poets, actors and jazz musicians in Paris.