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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
Corporeal Mime
April 12 to 30, 2010

objectives

The objective of the workshop is to develop within the actor/dancer a stage presence—that which precedes all actions; the understanding of articulations and the numerous possibilities of body movement; the discovery of the energetic flux that is both intra-corporeal and inter-spatial and the exploration of play between the two; to create personal compositions from corporeal research.

PROGRAM

Mime Corporel – Technique Etienne Decroux
• Scales - articulations
• Counterweights
• Dynamo-rhythm
• Walks
• Causalities: intra-corporeal and inter-spatial Research and Creation •Study of “The Washerwoman” repertory’s piece of Etienne Decroux
• Improvisation • Compositions

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

Corporeal Mime
April 12 to 30, 2010

10am to 1pm monday to friday
45h / 240€
Studio Philippe Genty, Paris 11ème

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