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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:

Leela Alaniz
Character - a corporeal approach
March 8 to 19, 2010

objectives

The objective of this workshop, at first, will be to discover the neutrality of the body, because each person posses a natural foundation that is unique. Afterwards, through the exercises of Theatre Anthropology, including organic research at the level of muscular vibrations and articulations and finally observation, the creation of three characters will be developed..

PROGRAM

The work of the creation of characters will be developed in three ways, which will give birth to three original characters:

- The creation starting from the personal research of internal impulses which extend out to the extremities of the body. Then, the points of tensions and relaxations placed in the new parts of the body will give the possibility of a different body of whom we might be very familiar with in our everyday lives. Thus, we will witness the birth of three characters starting from the body, as a sculpture is born from the stone by the scrupulous hands of the sculptor;

- Then, we will create the characters from the observations of a person who is very close to us or whom we have lived with for many years. We take from this personality, the memory of his body: his manner of walking, sitting, eating, speaking, his rhythm and his weight. This work we call “corporeal mimesis”.

- Through the observation of our corporeal body structure, together with traits of our own singular personality, we will explore the “dilation” of these traits towards the comedy.

Lastly, the improvisation and the acting will be explored as methods of enriching and rediscovering these characters.

Biography

Brazilian born actress. 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, Europe, Singapore, Argentina and Brazil. Her Master’s thesis concerning "The dynamo-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.

practical info

Character - a corporeal approach
March 8 to 19, 2010

10h to 13h monday to friday
30h / 180€
Studio Philippe Genty, Paris 11ème
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