With Leela Alaniz.
Starting from the principle that the voice is a vital phenomenon and that it does not occur only in the vocal cords, one realizes the importance of engaging the whole body and the bodily vitality for the production of sound.
The spoken words, in turn, require intellectual attention, understanding the meaning of what is being said, as well as a connection with the imagination which must be constantly sparkling.
A third element must also be related to speech, the quality of emotions, which obviously are not separated from the body, on the contrary they give shape, energy and body rhythms.
This workshop aims, through a series of exercises/investigations, to work on the relationship between the body and the voice, the multiple vocal qualities linked to the sensations, emotions and images produced by the imagination and therefore embodied/vocalized.
Practical course:
* Exercises derived from Grotowskian Organic Lineage techniques and developed by Leela Alaniz over the past 25 years of research and practice.
– Opening of energy flow
– Rooting and energetic expansion
– Vital resonators
* Embodiment of the six fundamental passions: wonder, love, hate, desire, joy and sadness
* Articulation and vocal projection
* ‘Body voice’
* ‘Soul voice’
* ‘Thoughts voice’
* Improvisations
* Composition
June 24 and 25, 2023
Saturday 24th – 2pm to 7pm and
Sunday 25th – 10:30 am to 4:30pm
(1 hour break for lunch)
12-hour lesson
Fee: 100 euros
Location:au Théâtre de la Terre
1 Passage du Buisson Saint-Louis
M : Belleville ou Goncourt
Applications are open !
For more information : 06.29.96.29.06 ou hippocampe@mime-corporel-theatre.com
Leela Alaniz Resume:
Leela Alaniz, Brazilian born actress, director, actor trainer and Artistic Director of Paris-based theatre company Pas de Dieux. She has a Ph.D. in Theatre Practice and Research from Sorbonne Nouvelle University – Paris III. Leela is full time teacher at the Faculty of Performing Arts, School of Dance & Theatre, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore.
The Pas de Dieux Company has a pleasure to announce the opening for applications for Auditions for Actors/Dancers/Musicians/Singers/Puppeteers (professionals and amateurs) for The Body’s Journey – Winter 2019-20, a project of Training, Research, and Devising, under the direction of Leela Alaniz.
The Body’s Journey – Winter 2019-20
Project of Training, Research and Devising
CALENDAR :
December 16, 2019 to February 29, 2020
Hours: Monday to Friday – 9am to 1pm
Atelier for Research on Thursdays – 2pm to 5pm
Relax on December 25th and January 1st
Presentation of the Artistic Projects that will be part of the Research: December 14, 2019.
Total: 192 hours / 23h per week
Price: 800€
AUDITIONS :
Auditions in Paris:
Saturday October 19, 2019 – (No prior preparation necessary, Free 3-hour practical workshop with Leela Alaniz)
APPLICATIONS:
Deadline: September 30, 2019
To apply, please send your CV and a cover letter to Leela Alaniz
Funding possibilities available through AFDAS (French nationals only).
For foreign applications for the selection process an interview with Leela Alaniz will take place personally or by telephone/skype.
Contact us for more information.
LOCATION:
Micadanses
15 Rue Geoffroy l’Asnier
75004 Paris
This new edition of The Body’s Journey benefits from the valuable collaboration of experienced artists/masters including:
Won Kim – Practice: Improvisation, Play
Gennady Bogdanov – Practice: Meyerhold Biomechanics
Lluis Graells – Practice: Commedia dell’Arte
CONTACT :
By phone : Won KIM, +33 (0) 6 71 61 93 94
By email : Leela Alaniz, leela(at)pasdedieux.com
Cie. Pas de Dieux
166 Bis rue de la Roquette, 75011, Paris
N° de SIRET : 491 955 704 00029 / Code APE: 9001Z
N° d’Activité: 11754611575
We are very happy to announce the return of Gennady Bogdanov, master of Meyerhold’s Biomechanics for the workshop: Introduction to Meyerhold’s Biomechanics organized by our company Pas de Dieux that will take place:
WORKSHOP:
INTRODUCTION TO MEYERHOLD’S BIOMECHANICS
PARIS
December 9 to 13, 2019
Monday to Friday – 10am to 1pm
Micadanses – Studio MayB
Total: 15h
Price: 233 €
Special discount for all former students of Pas de Dieux Company and students from French or foreign universities.
For more information, contact Leela Alaniz by email: leela(at)pasdedieux.com
Workshop: Introduction to Meyerhold’s Biomechanics
During the workshop, we will explore the physical techniques of Biomechanics, a plastic play system created by Meyerhold that provides the actor the necessary tools to re-educate his reflexes; collaborating to move away his daily and mechanical movements; to build characters through a psychophysical approach; to play in a state of deeper concentration and thus master the scenic play.
WORKSHOP PROGRAM
- Warm up
- Work on rhythm – the “inner musicality”
- Work on the principles of Biomechanics, according to Meyerhold, natural and fundamental elements of the gesture, such as:
- Otkaz (the refusal): a counter-movement that serves both to prepare the action and to give the signal to the stage partner indicating that the actor is ready to react.
- Pacil (sending): the simultaneous commitment to the action and the action itself.
- Tormos (the brake): the constraint that the actor must simultaneously exercise with the force ahead of the pacil in order to maintain control.
- Totcbka (a point in space, the point at the end of the body sentence) or stoïca (posture). They indicate the culmination of an action at a specific point in space.
Location :
Micadanses
Studio May B
15 rue Geoffroy L’Asnier, 75004 Paris
Metro, Saint Paul (line 1) or
Pont Marie (line 7)
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
By Phone : Won KIM
+33 (0) 6 71 61 93 94
By e-mail: Leela ALANIZ
leela(at)pasdedieux.com
The Pas de Dieux Company has a pleasure to announce the opening for applications for Auditions for Actors/Dancers/Musicians/Singers/Puppeteers (professionals and amateurs) for The Body’s Journey – Autumn 2019, a project of Training, Research, and Devising, under the direction of Leela Alaniz.
The Body’s Journey – Autumn 2019
Project of Training, Research and Devising
CALENDAR :
September 9 to November 29, 2019
Hours: Monday to Friday – 9am to 12pm
Total : 180 hours / 15h per week
Price: 420€/monthly – 3 months (12 weeks)
AUDITIONS :
Auditions in Paris:
Saturdays June 29 or July 13 (No prior preparation necessary, Free 3-hour practical workshop with Leela Alaniz)
APPLICATIONS :
Deadline: June 15, 2019
To apply, please send your CV and a cover letter to Leela Alaniz
Funding possibilities available through AFDAS (French nationals only).
For foreign applications for the selection process an interview with Leela Alaniz will take place personally or by telephone/skype.
Contact us for more information.
Location:
Micadanses
15 Rue Geoffroy l’Asnier
75004 Paris
This new edition of The Body’s Journey benefits from the valuable collaboration of experienced artists/masters including:
Gennady Bogdanov – Practice: Meyerhold Biomechanics
Serge Troude – Lecture: The Gurdjieff’s Teachings Today
CONTACT :
By phone : Won KIM, +33 (0) 6 71 61 93 94
By email : Leela Alaniz, leela(at)pasdedieux.com
Cie. Pas de Dieux
166 Bis rue de la Roquette, 75011, Paris
N° de SIRET : 491 955 704 00029 / Code APE: 9001Z
N° d’Activité: 11754611575
We are very happy to announce the return of our dear friend Lluis Graells who will give a workshop: The Body and masked character of Commedia dell’Arte, organized by our company Pas de Dieux :
WORKSHOP:
THE BODY AND MASKED CHARACTER OF COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE
PARIS,
July 23 to 27, 2018
From Monday to Friday
10am to 5pm
Total: 30hours
Price: 260 €
Special discount for all former students of Pas de Dieux Company and students from French or foreign universities.
For more information, contact Leela Alaniz by email: leela(at)pasdedieux.com
The Body and the Masked Character of Commedia dell’Arte
During the workshop, we will explore the masked characters of the Commedia Dell’Arte through the study of their walks, voices, and energies: Arlequin, Colombine, Dottore, Pantalon, Capitan, Zanni, Brighela. Each of these characters will be the object of a personalized work of each student. In this fixed form, in the “interior”, lies a large creative space that will be uncovered and will permit each actor to create his Arlequin, his Capitan, her Colombine…
Each day, improvisation will take its special place. We will study the codes of acting specific to the Commedia and to the mask, as well as the construction of the storylines. These participants will create the intrigues and mysteries by relying on the physical form and the social functions of their masked characters, based on their proper imagination and their relations tied to the characters.
WORKSHOP PROGRAM
- Semi-mask: movement techniques, lecture and study • Fixed Type, Type/Countertype, Style, Attributes
- Corporeal Schema of the Character and the Physical Transformation of the Actor
- Technical Limitations as a Source of Creation
- Improvisations as show
Location:
Micadanse
Studio So Schnell
15 rue Geoffroy L’Asnier, 75004 Paris
Metro, Saint Paul (ligne 1) ou
Pont Marie (ligne 7)
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
By Phone : Won KIM
+33 (0) 6 71 61 93 94
By e-mail: Leela ALANIZ
leela(at)pasdedieux.com
We have the pleasure to announce the introduction of an international theatre director and former assistant to Etienne Decroux, William Fisher, who will give a workshop for the first time in France, organized by our company Pas de Dieux :
CONFERENCE/DEMONSTRATION
May 5, 2018
Saturday, 2pm
Studio Biped – Micadanses
FREE ADMISSION
with reservation
WORKSHOP
“Solo Training / Ensemble Playing. ”
PARIS,
May 12 and 13, 2018
Saturday 12: 1pm – 7pm
Sunday 13: 10am to 1pm and 3pm to 6pm
Micadanses
Total : 12 hours
Price: 150 €
Micadanses: Studios May B, Biped, Noces
15, 16, et 20 rue Geoffroy L’Asnier, 75004 Paris
Metro, Saint Paul (line 1) or
Pont Marie (line 7)
FOR MORE INFORMATON:
By phone : Won KIM
+33 (0) 6 71 61 93 94
By email : Leela ALANIZ
leela(at)pasdedieux.com
Workshop
Open for practitioners of any experience level, this intensive workshop will build on a base of foundational Decroux technique (solfege, walks, counterweights). We will examine the intersection of the working lexicons of Dramatic Corporeal Mime and Viewpoints training the relationship between whole body listening /responsiveness and purposeful behavior in training and practice, the dynamic opposition between control and spontaneity, and structured improvisational processes for instant ensemble and collective composition for the stage. The use of short text may be incorporated into the workshop.
Deadline for applications: June 30, 2017
The programme begins: January 2018
Auditions: Paris, July 2017
For more information concerning the auditions
By email: leela@pasdedieux.com
Online Application: http://form.jotform.me/form/51392747413457
Download Application Form: http://iti.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Application-Form2018.docx
Enrolment Information: http://iti.edu.sg/admissions
To visit ITI website: http://iti.edu.sg
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“Nowhere else is there a programme like this, which incorporates traditional training from world cultures, and instils a contemporary sensitivity and mission.”
Stan Lai, directeur artistique, Performance Workshop, Taïwan
Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI) was founded in 2000 by acclaimed dramatist Kuo Pao Kun and current Director T. Sasitharan. This is a unique, three-year, full-time professional training programme for actors in contemporary intercultural theatre. It immerses students in traditional theatre forms from Asia, and juxtaposes these intense interactions with both Stanislavskian and post-Stanislavkian actor training techniques.
The programme features the following modalities:
• Four Asian Traditional Theatre Forms include Beijing Opera, Kutiyattam – an ancient Sanskrit theatre form, Wayang Wong – a traditional Javanese court dance and Noh Theatre – major form of classical Japanese musical drama
• Acting, Voice & Speech, Movement, Technical Theatre, Taiji and Humanities
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Applicant requirements:
• Be above 18 years of age
• Have a GCE ‘A’ Level certificate, or equivalent cultural literacy
Note: Graduates from colleges, polytechnics and universities, as well as current theatre practitioners are welcome to apply
• Demonstrate artistic talent and ability, maturity and commitment, at audition(s), interview(s) and in a written assessment
• Be proficient in English. This means a GCE ‘O’ Level pass in English, or its equivalent, or a pass (score 50% or higher) in an English Proficiency Test, administered at the time of the audition.
We have the pleasure to announce the return of our dear friend Lluis Graells who will give a workshop: The Body and masked character of Commedia dell’Arte, organized by our company Pas de Dieux :
WORKSHOP
“The Body and the Masked Character of Commedia dell’Arte”
PARIS,
April 3 to 7, 2017
From Monday to Friday
10am to 4pm
Total : 25hours
Price: 260 €
Micadanses
Studio May B
15 rue Geoffroy L’Asnier, 75004 Paris
Metro, Saint Paul (line 1) or
Pont Marie (line 7)
FOR MORE INFORMATON:
By phone : Won KIM
+33 (0) 6 71 61 93 94
By email : Leela ALANIZ
leela(at)pasdedieux.com
Every winter in Paris, the Pas de Dieux company invites Thomas Leabhart to come and warm our bodies and hearts. This year, he will present a lecture-demonstration of his creative process and then will direct a two-week workshop on the technique of Corporeal Mime of Etienne Decroux base on the theme: “The creation – To the Extraordinary via the Ordinary.”
LECTURE-DEMONSTRATION AND MASTER CLASS
“The Creative Process: From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary.”
Thursday December 29, 2016
Lecture/Demonstration: 6pm – FREE ADMISSION
Master Class 7pm to 9pm – 25€
The participants of the workshop may attend the Master Class for free.
Studio May B, MICADANSES
CORPOREAL MIME WORKSHOP
PARIS, JANUARY 2 TO 13, 2017
From Monday to Friday
9am to 1pm
Total : 40hours / 330 €
Possibility of AFDAS funding (French Citizens Only).
Pas de Dieux former students 15% reduction
Micadanses
15 rue Geoffroy L’Asnier, 75004 Paris
Metro, Saint Paul (line 1) or
Pont Marie (line 7)
THE CREATIVE PROCESS: FROM THE ORDINARY TO THE EXTRAORDINARY
Etienne Decroux asked his students to create new compositions, arranging ordinary movements—rotations, inclinations, and translations—into extraordinary combinations, phrasing quotidian movements in unexpected and captivating ways.
Our workshop guides the actor from first simple articulations through a creative process that finishes with a short composition.
This proposition is turned exclusively to artists: actors, dancers, mimes, musicians, puppeteers, etc., who wish to develop their artistic creations projects in format “solo”. It consists in two parts: two weeks of physical and vocal training, followed by two weeks of creation atelier. The result will be showed to the audience.
To participate in this work, a physical work experience is required, as well as an artistic creation project that will be discussed during a personal appointment (or by skype) with Leela Alaniz.
The first two weeks we will work 4 hours per day, 2:30 of training and 1:30 drive creative workshop; the next two weeks we will spend the 4 hours of work to artistic creation.
This workshop is open to all actors, dancers, musicians, puppeteers, professionals or amateurs.
Training
The training follows the method developed by Leela Alaniz over the last 15 years of pedagogical work, research and artistic creation. It concentrates on the fusion of two contemporary techniques for the actor/dancer training: The Organic Lineage research initiated and developed by Jerzy Grotowski and then by Eugenio Barba and his collaborators (Theatre Anthropology); and the Corporeal Mime of Etienne Decroux. These different techniques find a commonplace in that they both develop through the actor/dancer the sense of scenic presence and autonomy as an author/performer/creator.
The exercises of the organic process liberate the energetic flux from the spinal column, and propagate to transform the physical body. The actor/dancer thus develops a concentration and identifies with his physical, emotional and mental centers. Instead of searching for a specific expression, the actor/dancer plunges into a real process of organic research, which in turn becomes an artistic expression. The corporeal movements are initiated by impulses that are germinated from the interior of the body and develop within and throughout it. The research in theatre anthropology draws its inspiration from traditional theater from diverse parts of the world.
In the practice of Corporeal Mime, the actor/dancer finds the possibility of creating his or her own personal compositions in isolating different parts of the body, in mastering its articulations, and in playing with varying speeds, resistances and designs of corporeal movement. Getting an enhanced respect and knowledge of his body, the actor/dancer becomes able to listen to his body’s impulses, to leave out stereotyped moves and behaviors and to explore news organic possibilities through the singularity and rigor of the work developed by Leela Alaniz.
Devising
Concerning the devising process, each solo is directed by the attentive eyes of Leela. We are accepting projects from the following areas:
• dance-theater; theater ; mime; physical theater; musicians.
Production
A workshop of production will be directed by Won Kim, based on the advice to start artistic projects in the best conditions.
Program :
Training
- Exercises of the Organic Lineage – research of organicity, energetic flux, opening the blockages of the body, and of the release.
- Exercises of attention and interior awakening
- Stage Presence
- Corporeal Mime – Technique Etienne Decroux – articulations, counterweights, dynamo-rhythm, intra-corporeal and inter-spatial causalities.
- Alexander Technique – relaxation and liberation of the articulations
- Voice – corporeal resonators, text and singing
- Improvisations, play
Devising
Concerning the devising process, each solo is directed by the attentive eyes of Leela. We accept projects from the following areas:
• dance-theater; theater ; mime; physical theater; physical theater; musicians.
Producing
A workshop of production will be directed by Won Kim, based on the advice to start artistic projects in the best conditions.
Instuctors :
Leela Alaniz
Co-director of Cie Pas de Dieux, doctor in Theatre Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III University, she conducted her dissertation entitled: “The Thinker Body, the Dancer Mind – The Actor in his Quest for the Lost Unity”, under the direction of Monsieur Georges Banu in 2014 and will published very soon by the L’Entretemps Ed., Paris.
Leela Alaniz’s career consists of a constant round-trip movement between the practice and the theory of theater. With over 20 years of research in Theatre Anthropology in addition to 16 years of Corporeal Mime practice, she continues to teach many workshops and gives conferences in disparate countries and regions such as Brazil, France, Singapore, United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, and Argentina.
After a double major in Physical Education and Theater Studies in Brazil, she received a scholarship grant to participate in UTA, a center of research for Theatre Anthropology in Brazil. In 1994, she founded and directed Casa de Artes BAKA, a multicultural arts center, for her direction and management 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. In 2002, she went to France and undertook a Masters in Theatre Studies at the Paris VIII University. Her Master thesis on “The Dynamo-Rhythm of Etienne Decroux and His Successors” has been translated into English and published online in “Mime Journal”, Ed Pomona College (California), 2013, (for free download go to : http://scholarship.claremont.edu/mimejournal/vol24/iss1/2
Leela was a full time professor of Movement for Acting and Performance at Intercultural Theatre Institute (ITI) in Singapore from 2012 to 2014. Leela has played and directed several plays during the last 25 years.
Won Kim
Ph.D. in Esthetics, Sciences, and Technologies of Arts, Paris 8 University. With Korean origins and American nationality, Won Kim discovered quite early the importance of intercultural research between Asian and Occidental cultures. Since 2002, after eight years in the corporate marketing, he has decided to dedicate his life to the learning of physical theatre with Thomas Leabhart and Leela Alaniz. He has played a dual role as actor and co-founder/producer of the company Pas de Dieux with Leela Alaniz. He has also assisted Leela in the development of her own method of actor/dancer training based on the influences of Etienne Decroux and Jerzy Grotowski, in the production of workshops and the development of the full-time training program, The Body’s Journey. In September 2014, he has earned his Ph.D. in Esthetics, Sciences, and Technologies of Arts with Summa Cum Laude at Paris 8 University. His dissertation is entitled, “Corporeal Mime Counterweights in the Contemporary World,” directed by Katia Légeret. He is also an assistant professor at Paris 8 University teaching courses related to mime and physical theatre.
CALENDAR:
November 7 to December 3, 2016
Hours: Monday to Friday – 9am to 1pm
Total: 80 hours / 20h per week
Final Presentation: December 3
Fee: 420€
Funding possibilities available through AFDAS (French nationals only).
Contact us for more information.
Location:
Micadanses
15, 20 rue Geoffroy l’Asnier, 75004, Paris
Studio May B and Noces
FOR MORE INFORMATON:
By phone :
+33 (0) 7 50 46 40 62
By email : Leela ALANIZ
leela(at)pasdedieux.com