Training for Actors/Dancers
stages 2009-10

en français
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:

Conferences 2009-10
 
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T. Sasitharan
TTRP: Re-imagining Tradition (conference in English with French translation) http://www.ttrp.edu.sg
He is co-founder and director of TTRP (Theatre Training & Research Program) one of the oldest schools of theatre/dance in Singapore. Conjointly with Kuo Pao Kun recipient of the prestigious prize Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts des Lettres (France) and the Cultural Medallion (Singapore), he founded a 3-year training program that represents an unique approach in the teaching of contemporary theater: to teach traditional Asian techniques with an multi-disciplinary approach in order to discover new possibilities of contemporary forms of expression.

TRP: Re-imagining Tradition

Monday, November 23 at 7pm
Entrance 3€ with reservation
Théâtre du Lierre, Paris

Wednesday, November 25 at 3pm
Free Admission with reservation
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, salle 25
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Thomas Leabhart

  Thomas Leabhart
Mime Corporel - Technique et Creation

Student of Etienne Decroux from 1968 – 1972, he is Professor of Theatre and Resident Artist at Pomona College, California. Member of the Artistic Staff of ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology), he performs and teaches regularly in France. He is editor in chief of the Mime Journal, he has authored more than thirty articles and Modern and Post Modern Mime (Macmillan in London and St. Martin's Press, NYC, 1989) and Etienne Decroux, Routledge Performance Practitioners (Routledge Press 2007), and the Decroux Sourcebook (Routledge 2008).
 

Corporeal Mime - Technique et Creation
Saturday, January 9 at 3pm

Entrance 3€ with reservation
Théâtre du Lierre
22, rue Chevaleret - 75013 Paris

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Matteo Belli

  Matteo Belli
Acting with voice - corporeal resonators

Matteo Belli earned a degree in modern literature at the University of Bologne with a thesis in Italian literature entitled “Rime giullaresche e popolari d’Italia’ di Vincenzo De Bartholomaeis” (The popular songs of the troubadours in Italy according to Vincenzo de Bartholomaeis). From 1989, after finishing his studies in literature and music, he began to work in the theatre, at first as a “mime-fanatasy”, then as an actor. The relation between music and literature became more and more profound with each performance.
  Acting with voice - corporeal resonators
Monday, February 8, 10am

FREE ADMISSION
Studio Philippe Genty, 40 rue Sedaine, Paris, 75011

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Lluis Graells   Lluis Graells
The Actor and the Mask of Commedia dell'Arte
Actor, director, professor, and artistic director for the International Festival of Mime and Gestual Theater COS of Reus, Catalonia. Earned a diploma at the l'Institut del Teatre de Barcelone in 1989. He worked with Pawel Rouba and Andrzej Leparski in Pantomime and specialized with Carlo Boso and Ferruccio Solari in Commedia dell'Arte. After having participated as an actor and director in numerous productions such as Brecht, Molière, Goldoni, to name a few, he has taught Commedia dell'Arte for over 15 years at National and Regional Conservatories in Spain.
 

The Actor and the Mask of Commedia dell'Arte
Monday, March 29, 10am

FREE ADMISSION
Studio Philippe Genty, 40 rue Sedaine, Paris, 75011

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Gilberto Icle   Phillip Zarilli
Psychophysical Training of the Actor: Making the body all eyes

Phillip Zarrilli is internationally known for training actors, dancers, and performers in psychophysical process through Asian martial/meditation arts, and as a director. He runs a studio in Wales, and conducts workshops throughout the world. His recent productions of Samuel Beckett’s plays in Los Angeles (2000), Austria (2001), Ireland (2004) and the US (2006, 2007, 2009) have won critical acclaim and awards. He teaches psychophysical process for MA/MFA Theatre Practice students University of Exeter, U.K. Books include Acting (Re)Considered, When the Body Becomes All Eyes, Kathakali Dance-Drama, and Martial Arts in Actor Training, and Psychophysical Acting: an intercultural approach after Stanisalvski (Foreword by Eugenio Barba with DVD-ROM, 2009).
 

Psychophysical Training of the Actor: Making the body all eyes
Sunday, May 2, 2pm

FREE ADMISSION
Studio Philippe Genty, 40 rue Sedaine, Paris, 75011

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