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Workshop with Claudio Santana Bórquez Mon 22 February 2016, 17:00–21:00 Laboratory Theatre Space Contact and application Please send your completed application form to Justyna Rodziñska-Nair: justyna@grotowski-institute.art.pl by 15 February 2016. The number of places is limited. Fee: 50 PLN This workshop focuses on the body, sound, rhythm and action, all understood as objective instruments of the performer’s craft. Practising them enables you to establish a different kind of communication between human beings and to create a field of artistic and personal exploration – exploration which may lead to the essence of simple acts and the joy of being together. Participants should prepare a short, well-memorized text or song of their personal choice in any language.  Claudio Santana Bórquez is an actor and director with a Master’s degree in theatre directing, Professor in the Theatre Department of Playa Ancha University, Valparaiso, Chile. Since 2010 he has been Artistic Director of the Performer Persona Project which explores body, sound, rhythm and live action. His performative works include: Performing Nothing (2011), Vigilia (2012), Julia (2013), Like a Dog in the Sun (2013), Losing the Battle of (the Ebro) Drunk (2014) and A Performative Lecture: Practice Drama (2015). In 2013 he directed Lab Performer Studies. From 2008 to 2010 he was an actor with Laboratorio Permanente di Ricerca sull’Arte dell’Attore, Italy. In 2008 he participated in the Grotowski Institute’s Atelier and in the project Horizons of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards. As Director of Teatro de la Peste (2002–2006), he has presented Yard Gal, Pincho Disney, Orwell 1984, Silence of God, Normal. More information: www.performerpersonaproject.cl As part of Feeling the PULSE, STUDIO || ROSA’s exploratory theatre undertaking developed during the company’s residency at the Grotowski Institute |