WORKSHOPS APRIL JULY 2018 - SEPTEMBER ÉCOLE INTERNATIONALE DE THÉÂTRE JACQUES LECOQ - Ecole Jacques Lecoq
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ÉCOLE INTERNATIONALE DE THÉÂTRE
JACQUES LECOQ
WORKSHOPS
APRIL
JULY
SEPTEMBER
2018
www.ecole-jacqueslecoq.com
APRIL
INTRODUCTION TO PLAYING
From 2 to 6 April 2018
Teachers : Paola Rizza – Anne Astolfe
This workshop proposes a discovery of the Lecoq School’s
approach to theatrical play.
It will be a journey that leads from psychological replay - the
observation of life, its rhythms and dynamics and silences from
which speech springs – through to the event of the Neutral Mask,
which raises and structures play whilst seizing the poetic
dimension of life.
The workshop will explore this through Improvisation classes,
accompanied by Movement Classes dealing with physical
Preparation and Movement Analysis.
This workshop is for all actors (From 18 years old)
interested in a first approach to the school’s teaching.
A good understanding of French is required
10 am to 12.30 am – 2 pm to 4.30 pm / 25h / 500€
JULY
FROM GESTURE TO WRITING
From 9 to 13 July 2018
Teachers: Susana Lastreto - Frédéric Tellier
This workshop proposes writing based on two essential points of
the school’s pedagogy: movement and observation.
We will follow the frame of a storyteller to approach: narrative
style, dialogues, monologues, descriptions. This means, eve-
rything that may serve a story, a novel, a play.
Each day we will propose physical sollicitations as well as wri-
ting and commenting. One of the teachers may propose move-
ment sessions as a source of inspiration. Each participant will be
asked personal work at home such as short essays to be read and
analysed during the workshop.
This workshop will give useful techniques to beginners to
develop their own writing projects. For those who have already
writing experience, we hope they will discover new ways and
possibilities.
The classes are given in French
9 to 11.30 am – 1 to 3.30 pm / 25h /500€
JULY
PLAY AND CHARACTERS
From 16 to 20 July 2018
Teachers: Paola Rizza - Jason Turner
This workshop is bilingual French/English
Starting from daily life observation we will imagine characters,
play the roles and test them out in different improvisations. Who
is playing, how does he walk, which passions drive him ? In which
situations will he be credible, which conflicts reveal the counter-
mask ? Will he keep dignity in his swimsuit on the beach or when
he is lost in the forest ? Well he be feeble in danger ?
The journey of the first year leads to the characters. Through
identification with elements and animals we will find the
behaviours required by the masks. Through movement analysis,
scales of passions and characters we aim to the same goal : bring to
life somebody different from myself and step by step give him his
dramatic dimension.
This workshop is an approach of characters based on the first years’
journey and provocations.
Physical preparation and movement analysis will accompany the
improvisations.
Stage experience is required.
9 to 11.30 am – 1 to 3.30 pm / 25h / 500€
JULY
FROM THE RED NOSE TO ABSURD PLAY
From 16 to 20 July 2018
Teachers: Paola Rizza - Jason Turner
This workshop is bilingual French/English
We will discover during this workshop what Jacques Lecoq called
the smallest mask in the world : the red nose.
Teared between childish naivety and pathetic seriousness, the clown
does not understand the world, its laws, rules and inhabitants.
Confortable spectators of his confusion, amused spectators of his
self mockery, we can laugh and feel ourselves superior.
Later, we will replace naivety with the paradoxical logic of the
absurd play, drawing the audience to face the same questions as the
actors, unable to understand the Very Big (God, Life, Dead) and the
very small (administration, relations, rules…).
A question will arise : which language to describe a world without
any sense ?
When the stumbling clown confirms us in our stability and reveals
our common fragility in absurd situations, the whole world is
tumbling and provoking a huge dizzying laughter.
A minimum of two years experience is required.
10.30 am to 1 pm – 2.30 to 5 pm / 25h / 500€
SEPTEMBER
PLAY AND MASKS
From 3 to 7 September 2018
Teachers: Paola Rizza - Yasuyo Mochizuki
The Mask is fundamental in the training of an actor. It opens up
the body and proposes particular attitudes and styles. It enlarges
emotions and simplifies and clears the actor’s play from anecdotes.
This workshop will explore the various masks we use in the first
years’ journey :
- The Neutral Mask, the mask behind all masks and a reference
point for understanding how the world moves. It allows a state of
receptivity, balance and curiosity in which to explore the natu¬ral
world of elements and materials.
- The larval Mask appeals imagination through its simple and
exagerated shape.
- The expressive masks, true to reality, provoke accurate and
sensitive interpretations.
- The american masks, close to comic strips, lead to rythmic
action and great attitudes.
Physical preparation and movement analysis will accompany
improvisation.
Stage experience is required.
The classes are given in French.
9 to 11.30 am – 1 to 3.30 pm / 25h / 500€SEPTEMBER
BURLESQUE AND ACROBATICS
From 10 to 14 September 2018
Teachers: Jos Houben - Anne Astolfe - Éric Nesci
The art of imbalance and falling, the art of shift and accident, trying
again and again to maintain the balance and nevertheless always
fall pathetically, burlesque is an eternal diversification of a body
refusing verticality, literally and figuratively, ignorant of rules,
dignity and manners.
We will explore the links between burlesque and dramatic
acrobatics. From the smallest imbalance to falling head over heals,
from little mistakes to big reversals, hiding technique and virtuosity
so that even series of accidents make us laugh, of course, but also
touch us.
This workshop is for actors, acrobats and dancers
who have at least two years professional experience…
and a good physical condition.
The workshop will be given in French.
9 am to 11.30 am – 1 to 3.30 pm / 25h / 500€SEPTEMBER
INTRODUCTION TO BURLESUE
From 10 to 14 September 2018
Teachers: Jos Houben - Anne Astolfe - Éric Nesci
This workshop explores the universe of physical comedy, how
laughter is created. First of all we shall replay situations as they
can be observed in daily life. The aim is to lay bare how things
function. This will serve as the starting point to explore all
possible «disfunctions»: imbalances, misunderstandings, mishaps,
accidents, etc... that create laughter.
The workshop is based on improvisation accompanied by technical
work :
- Physical preparation
- Dramatic acrobatics
- Movement analysis
- Improvisation
Stage experience is required.
The workshop will be given in French.
9 am to 11.30 am – 1 to 3.30 pm / 25h / 500€APPLICATION Send a CV and a photo by post or email: contact@ecole-jacqueslecoq.com Tariff all workshops (including enrolment): - 500€ Payment: deposit of 200€ upon acceptation of your application (not reimbursed in case of cancellation). Balance to be paid at the latest one week before the beginning of the workshop. No special clothes needed. We recommend comfortable, plain, dark clothing and flexible gym shoes.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
metro lines 4, 8, 9 - stations:
Strasbourg St Denis / Château d’Eau / Bonne Nouvelle.
bus : 20, 38, 39, 47, 48.
CONTACT
École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq
57, rue du Faubourg Saint Denis
FR - 75010 Paris
Tel.: 00 33 1 47 70 44 78
Email : contact@ecole-jacqueslecoq.com
Internet : www.ecole-jacqueslecoq.comOUR 2018 WORKSHOP OUTSIDE OF PARIS
STUDIO LECOQ LEES
Laboratory for theatre and plastic arts research
2018 SUMMER WORKSHOP
www.ecole-jacqueslecoq.comTHE STUDIO This studio, imagined by Fay Lees and Jacques Lecoq in the nineties, develops different creative activities linked to the school’s pedagogy and the LEM (Laboratory for the study of movement – department of scenography of the school). Only one hour outside of Paris, located in the Vexin countryside, this space regularly welcomes in residence companies such as : Footsbarn theatre, GRRR company (Susana Lastreto), Remote control and Manifesto Poetico. This year we are also proposing a summer workshop. This workshop will bring together theatre and plastic arts. Taking into account today’s cultural context valorising creative interaction, we propose a total immersion experience in the form of a full-time workshop.
THE WORKSHOP
LEM WORKSHOP - Montagny 2018
MOVEMENT AND LANDSCAPE
From Monday 16th July to Friday 20th July 2018
With Pascale LECOQ and Carlos GARCIA ESTEVEZ
This workshop proposes to discover landscapes through movement.
It consists of exploration, through movement, spaces, forces,
directions and time in a given environment.
The landscape will act as a provocation : the garden and its
organisation, the wood with its secrets, the wideness of the plaines
don’t carry the same space and dramatic dynamics. They deposit
specific emotions and print specific paths in our bodies. The
landscape will thus be our stage, our theatre.
We will re-play all these observations and impressions collected by
our body without caring about presentation. Later, we will transpose
these statements plastically in a workshop situation and also in the
landscape itself.
The workshop will be organised around :
- movement sessions outside
- physical preparation and movement analysis inside
- plastic awareness of nature and elements
- observation of nature and plastic transposition
This dramatic and plastic research will be with and within the
landscape.
This workshop is for any artist (scenographers, actors, stage
directors, plastic artists, circus artists…) as well as for students
who have already practiced the LEM and are eager to discover new
directions.
This workshop is multi-lingual.
French, English, Spanish and Italian.
Tariff: 850 euros/ 6 hours a day, including food and accomodation,
as well as all materials needed for the plastic arts.
AFDAS payment possible.
Arrival on Sunday, 15th of July. Departure on Saturday 21st of July..
To apply: please send your CV, letter of motivation and photo to:
contact@ecole-jacqueslecoq.comProperty on the countryside 60 Km outside of
Paris, in Le Vexin.
Reachable by train from St. Lazare station.
Email : contact@ecole-jacqueslecoq.com
Tel : 01 47 70 44 78
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