“The Garden” educational program
in collaboration with the GROTOWSKI INSTITUTE (Poland), the Research Centre of the UNIVERSITY OF TURIN (Italy), OMMA STUDIO (Greece) and UNIVERSITY OF MALTA presents:
KATHARSIS
De cura animae suae
Project of Research 2007-2010
THE GARDEN
- ongoing educational program -
Directed by Domenico Castaldo
in collaboration with Katia Capato and Francesca Netto.
For actors, students, and researchers in performing arts.
The following educational program is intended to introduce amateur and professional actors to the work on acting and performance craft developed by LABORATORIO PERMANENTE from 1996 through its most recent project: katharsis: De cura animae suae. This program includes a series of workshops that will be offered at the above-mentioned theatre and institutes in Poland, Italy, Greece and Malta. Opening ceremonies and the first workshop will take place at the UNIVERSITY OF TURIN in October 2010.
How to master our own feelings, and through what instruments?
How can theatre go beyond entertainment and follow a path of the soul?
How to build a team of strong and capable individuals, working together according to principles of self-determination and cultural and religious rebellion?
THE GARDEN educational program:
A practical and theoretical training in self-discovery through the art of the actor.
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The actor’s art is a synthesis of knowledge, expression and expressivity. Through this synthesis, the actor can go beyond self-exhibition to understand the mechanisms by which she lives, through which she communicates with herself and with others. The knowledge of the actor leads towards verticality (the sense of spirit) in life and towards the unconscious depths of the one who does… until she makes of herself a “passer-by,” one who is between two parts of the living self: the interior world and the one through which we connect to others; the Garden and the World outside.
Over a period of thirteen years, the LABORATORIO PERMANENTE di RICERCA SULL’ARTE DELL’ATTORE (Permanent Laboratory of Research on the Art of the Actor) has developed a system of techniques to survey and transmit the ways and passages of acting. This work takes place through, inside, and beyond the development of a new commedia dell’arte (theatre of skill), exploring the mechanisms of the actor and the human being in action.
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PRACTICAL WORKSHOP ON
THE PROCESS OF THEATRICAL ACTION
AND THE ACTOR (the human being in action) INVOLVED IN IT
From song, from impulse, from text, from movement – the need to express ourselves.
The discovery and practice of organicity in the body.
The grace of the voice in a time of urgency.
Five consecutive days of work (six hours per day) on:
- song and vocalization (individual and group work)
- physical actions (from improvisation to structure)
- training techniques (following; leading; beyond dance; the body of impulse)
A time in which we devote ourselves to caring for attention; for silence; for the recognition of oneself in another. A time dedicated to cultivating our Garden through the Art of the Actor.
(translated with assistance from Francesca Netto and Ben Spatz)
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