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The body's journey
The company Pas de Dieux, co-directed by Leela Alaniz and Won Kim, proposes a year of revitalizing creativity through the rediscovery of the body as a path of research and creation. In addition to the various technical workshops proposed throughout the year, the program also proposes theoretical reflection concerning the attitudes of the actor/dancer immersed in his work, therefore opening the possibility to create with the body, spirit and sentiments as a part of a continual work of self-discovery.

Throughout the 2009-10 year, the company Pas de Dieux will invite several renowned artists engaged in the corporeal research for the actor/dancer:

Eric de Sarria
The actor’s play and manipulation of marionettes and objects

objectives

The work developed with rigor by Leela Alaniz responds to the understanding of one’s self by listening to the impulses, by the abandonment of stereotypical attitudes and systems, by the exploration of new ways of the body, by the discovery and respect for the inherent organicity of this body. These elements are also present in the arts of the acrobatics, music, puppetry, as well as other performing arts.

program

*Manipulation (working on fixed points, impulses and different movement qualities, working on axis, stops, and looking).

*Conviction (play of the manipulator)

*Dissociation and distancing (to be, at the same time, inside and outside of the action / to be in the present and in the memory)

*Impulses of departing and/or arriving (the qualities of movement)

- Orientation : the axis and “satellizing”
- Fixed point (linking fixed points)
- Focal points (involving looking and the opening to the public)
- Ruptures (rhythms, speeds, suspensions, and stops)

This work is conducted thanks to the "Albert” the table puppet for 3 handlers, and thanks to the "Soledad » and her sisters, puppets of the Bunraku genre. All of these puppets belong to the Company Philippe Genty. While the research is in the spirit of the work of the Company Philippe Genty, it encourages the “pupils” discovery of his or own artistic expressions.

Support materials for this research involve: kraft paper, water, flour, couscous, clay, bread dough, plastic, fabrics,…

Biography

Eric de Sarria has practiced the art of manipulation of marionettes and materials at the company Philippe Genty since 1988. He has played in “Dérives, Dédale, and Zignmund Follies. He has formal actor’s training and has also worked with L’Illustre Famille Burattini (Street Theatre) and Le Théâtre de L’Unité. He is also director (in South Africa and France) and has devised and played in his own shows (Un gout de Millefeuille). He gives workshops concerning the marionette and play in France and abroad.

practical info

October 19 to 30, 2009

9h30 -13h monday to friday 35h / 180€ Studio Philippe Genty, Paris 11ème
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