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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
Movement and Directing
June 7 to 18, 2010

objectives

The workshop will focus on two axes : the creation of corporeal compositions derived from improvisations and the “directing” of these compositions.

Always based on the research work of autonomous creation of the actor/dancer and the relation between organicity and structure, the work proposes to participants to experiment the roles of the actor/dancer and the “director”. The later will collaborate with the former in the research process of poetic and esthetic creation.

The participants will therefore be invited to discover the responsibilities of the actor/dancer, of the “director”, and the audience, in the spirit of availability and of listening, of enrichment and of exchange, where the creation in itself is the center of the work.

PROGRAM

• Exercizes of articulations, point fixes, the axe of the body, line of force of movements;

• Excercizes focused on the qualities of movements such as: the scales of resistance (the play of relaxation and muscular tension), rhythm and the path, and the play between the two;

• Breathing, interior seeing ;

• The relations intra-corporeal and inter-spatial : causalities ;

• Improvisations

• Compositions, structure ;

• Interactions, interventions;

• The research of the concentration, of the clarity and the communication of the work presented to the public

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

Movement and Directing
June 7 to 18, 2010

10am to 1pm monday to friday
30h / 180€
Studio Philippe Genty, Paris 11ème

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