Blood Wedding |
17th Open Session of Regula contra Regulam Led by Raúl Iaiza Guest Master Eliseo Parra (Spain) Mon–Sun 10–16 October 2015 Brzezinka, forest base of the Grotowski Institute The session will be conducted in English and Italian. Contact and application Please send your completed application form to Giulia Varotto at giulia@regulacontraregulam.eu by 9 September 2015. We will get back to you by 11 September 2015. The number of participants is limited. Tel. +39 347 6068570 www.regulacontraregulam.eu Fee 330 EUR (250 EUR for participants from Eastern and Central Europe) The fee includes lodging and food. It does not include transportation expenses to and from Wroc³aw. Creative work in this session will focus on Blood Wedding (Bodas de Sangre) by Federico García Lorca. Participants must read this text before the session and, if possible, bring a copy of it in their native language. This will be the third and last session focused on Blood Wedding. Exploring the theme “Songs and Tradition in García Lorca’s World”, it will complete the path developed in the previous session with the masters Isabelle Maurel and Gabriele Vacis. Open session work programme The session will be structured into two main fields:
The work will culminate in the presentation of a final montage based on the proposed text. Working sessions will be held every day from 9am to 1pm and from 3pm to 7pm. Individual sessions will be conducted at different times according to the development of the work. Work demonstrations, video screenings and lectures, complementary to the work programme, will be offered in the evenings. Requirements 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. Presentations
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 by Roberta Carreri, 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).
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