Workshop - Program
Physical and Vocal Training for actors/danseurs
Corporeal Mime techniques
• Scales
• Counterweights
• Dynamo-rhythm
• Improvisation
Theatre Anthropology techniques
• Plastic Exercises: roots, articulations and energetic
• Dance of winds
• Exercises with sticks – Combats
• Contact Improvisation
• Corporeal Investigations based on the Enneagram
• Compositions
Vocal Resonators exercises
• Text speaking
• Improvisation
• Studio creation of new work
• Devised Creation and Presentation
LEELA ALANIZ
 Brazilian born actress. From 1991 to 1993, she received a scholarship grant to participate in UTA, a center of research for theatre anthropology in Brazil. In 1994, she founded Casa de Artes BAKA, a multicultural arts center. For her direction and management of the Casa de Artes BAKA, she received the coveted SATED prize. From 1997 to 2003, she studied corporeal mime under Thomas Leabhart in California and Paris, eventually becoming his assistant. She has directed several shows and has taught courses in California, France, Spain, Argentina and Brazil. Her masters thesis concerning "The dyanamo-rhythm of Etienne Decroux” will be published in the next edition of the Mime Journal*. She is currently in the PhD program of Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle University in theater studies.
* Mime Journal - Thomas Leabhart editor, Pomona College, California. |
