This workshop focuses on the development of the actor/dancer physical presence through Leela Alaniz’s method, derived from her 15 years of research and training with actors. This work is based, first, on exercises from The Organic Lineage of Jerzy Grotowski, second, on the Corporeal Mime technique of Etienne Decroux, and finally, on the meeting of these two methods so as to develop the creative autonomy of the actor/dancer.
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. 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.
The work developed with rigor by Leela Alaniz responds to the understanding of one’s self by listening to the impulses, by the abandonment of stereotypical attitudes and systems, by the exploration of new ways of the body movement and by the discovery and respect for the inherent organicity of this body.
Training Program :
- 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
This workshop is open to all actors, dancers, musicians, puppeteers, professionals or amateurs.
Instructors :
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.
CALENDAR :
October 3 to 14, 2016
Hours: Monday to Friday – 9am to 12 Noon
Total: 30 hours / 290 €
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 Information:
By Phone : +33 (0) 7 50 46 40 62
By email : Leela ALANIZ leela(at)pasdedieux.com
The Pas de Dieux Company is proud to announce that the Intercultural Theatre Institute, Singapore, is now conducting auditions in PARIS for a three-year professional diploma in Intercultural Theatre (Acting).
Deadline for applications:June 30, 2016
The programme begins:January 2017 & 2018
Auditions: Paris, July 2016
Professional Diploma in Intercultural Theatre (Acting)
Five Reasons to choose ITI
Quality Theatre Education Unlike Any Other
Distinctive, intercultural training modules that include four traditional Asian art forms, paratheatre skills and cross-cultural peer experience with cohorts who hail from over 16 countries.
Globally Renowned Faculty
Train under the most respected names in specialised theatre fields and learn from master-teachers of Wayang Wong, Kutiyattam, Noh theatre and Beijing opera in a small student-to-teacher ratio setting.
Professional Performance Experience
The varied modes of learning in ITI culminate in your final year with public performances, where you will work with acclaimed theatre directors as well as professional artistic and production teams.
Connections to an acclaimed alumni network
ITI’s impact goes beyond your graduation. Our worldwide award-winning alumni network from 16 countries have collaborated on projects and work platforms and continue to do so. Be a part of this growing interconnection.
Continual Creative Work
100% of our graduates stay in the creative sectors post-ITI. They contribute to the cultural landscape in significant ways everywhere – as artistic directors, directors, teachers and lecturers, actors in film and on stage, as researchers and more. You will too.
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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
Click to see the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLl8oivx–o
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.
For more information concerning the auditions
By phone: +33 750464062 by email: leela@pasdedieux.com
Online Application: http://form.jotform.me/form/51392747413457
Download Application Form: http://iti.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ITI-Application-Form-2016.pdf
Enrolment Information: http://iti.edu.sg/admissions
To visit ITI website: http://iti.edu.sg
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ITIsg/?fref=ts
As part of the project The Body’s Journey, we have the pleasure to invite you to a conference/demonstration followed by a Master Class of Elizabeth de Roza, teacher of Lasalle College of the Arts, School of Theatre and Dance, Singapore.
Conference/Demonstration
Exploration of the body-in-motion through Kalaripayattu (traditional South Indian Martial Arts form).
How the training of Kalaripayattu leads to the embodiment of physical awareness of an actor. Investigating ‘the point of resonance’ that is akin to ‘presence’. Through this investigation, the actor develops a physical score that works on 5 basic rules of the body-in-space (soft fireworks). This active visceral response paired with the intellectually vivid physical vocabulary of Kalaripayattu retrained the actor’s body awakened to the creation of the body in performance (image-actions).
Topics addressed will be:
- Exploration of the ideology of Kalaripayattu as a vehicle for the embodiment of physical awareness and breath-in-motion
- Investigation of the heighten spine as a tool for the development of physical action
- The exploration of the 5 poses in Kalaripayattu as an active visceral response to ‘awaken’ the actor’s body to the creation of the body in performance (image-actions).
Saturday, May 14 2016, 4pm
MICADANSES, room May B
15 rue Geoffroy l’Asnier, 75004, Paris
FREE ADMISSIONS with reservations
Master Class
The application of Kalaripayattu into ‘presence’ and physical actions
- Introduction to the poses in Kalaripayyattu
- Developing and alerting the participants to an animal-like kinaesthetic awareness
- Application of training into creation work
Audience : actors and dancers
Saturday, May 14, 2016
From 5pm to 7pm
MICADANSES, room May B
15 rue Geoffroy l’Asnier, 75004, Paris
Cost : 25€ – with reservation (limited places)
Elizabeth de Roza: Director, a multi-disciplinary performance artist, creative collaborator and theatre academic based in Singapore. Her work draws from contemporary performance practices on notions of hybridity, interactivity, cross-disciplinary art and collaboration. Her training in performance-making, draws from traditional Asian theatrical training/performing methods, martial arts (kalaripayattu) and contemporary art practices. She has been commissioned and invited to present her works at various international contemporary arts festival. Her research in developing cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary performance and performance methodology has been presented at conferences and workshops and seen her collaborating with various international performance groups such as Theatre of the disturbed (Myanmar 2010 & 2012) and Teatro Kalipatos (Mexico 2012). She is the Artistic Director of a physical/sensory performance research group TheatreStrays, creating intimate, sensorial, physical, inter-medial, non-linear performance in un-conventional spaces. She is currently pursuing her Phd at Goldsmiths University in cross-cultural performance practices and is a full-time lecturer at Lasalle College of the Arts, School of Theatre and Dance in the Faculty of Performing Arts.
Micadanses
15 rue Geoffroy L’Asnier, 75004 Paris
Metro, Saint Paul (line 1) or
Pont Marie (line 7)
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
By Telephone : Leela ALANIZ
+33 (0) 7 50 46 40 62
By Email :
leela(at)pasdedieux.com
We are excited to announce an event of corporeal improvisation that will surprise you, MetaFora:
Saturday, May 14, 2016, 8pm
Micadanses
15 Rue Geoffroy l’Asnier, 75004 Paris
Studio May B
Public : Tout Public Durée : 90 – 120 minutes
Entrance : 5 €
BRINGING METAPHORS TO LIFE THROUGH CORPOREAL IMPROVISATION
MetaFora presents a form of improvisational theatre based on corporeal and vocal expression. Unlike the ‘battles’ that focus on virtuosic performance, the stage intensity result from the challenge of bringing to life a metaphor. In front of an audience, the actors/dancers/singers/musicians have only a few minutes to transport the audience into a poetic universe. Metaphor, “Meta” derives from the Greek meaning “across, and after,” and “phor” (pherō), meaning “I bear, carry”. “Metafora” is the Portuguese translation. While it carries the same sense as in English, “Meta” can also mean “goal” and “fora” mean “outside”. Thus, the goal of the metaphors is to stretch the boundaries of the imagination beyond the habitual and the mundane. It is going “in through the outdoor” according to Led Zeppelin. The event takes place in two parts: In the first part, a group of selected or “invited” performing artists play together based on random hat selection. In the second part, the “invited” performing artists improvise with volunteers of the public in duo, trios.
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As part of the project The Body’s Journey, we have the pleasure to invite you to a conference/demonstration followed by a Master Class of Jesser de Souza, company LUME Teatro, Brazil.
Conference/Demonstration
Physical and Vocal training for the actor-dancer
Presentation based the work of practice types, or the training techniques of the actors of the Brazilian Theatre company, LUME:
- investigation of the construction of the extra-quotidian energy and stage presence;
- the dilation of these same energies in time and in space together;
- the management of the energetic flux in and beyond the physical body;
- vocal resonators of work;
- the creation of characters through Mimesis Corporel.
Monday March 21, 2016 at 11h.
MICADANSES, room Noces
20 rue Geoffroy l’Asnier, 75004, Paris
FREE ADMISSIONS with reservations
Master Class
Training Technique for the actor-dancer
This workshop allows experimentation with a systematized daily training method of the actors of the Brazilian theatre company LUME.
- awareness and dilation of the corporeal capacities of expression;
- work ethic (self-discipline and autonomy):
- preparation and attention (warm-up of body-spirit and presence);
- aspects of energetics and work techniques (the transformation of weight into energy, the dynamics of action in space and time, the articulation of corporeal segmentation, mastery of energy, and actor play).
Audience : actors and dancers
Monday, March 21, 2016
from 4pm to 6pm
MICADANSES, room So schnell
15 rue Geoffroy l’Asnier, 75004, Paris
Cost : 25€ – with reservation (limited places)
Micadanses
15 rue Geoffroy L’Asnier, 75004 Paris
Metro, Saint Paul (line 1) or
Pont Marie (line 7)
More info on LUME :
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
By Telephone : Leela ALANIZ
+33 (0) 7 50 46 40 62
By Email :
leela(at)pasdedieux.com
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The Pas de Dieux Company has a pleasure to announce the opening for applications for Auditions for Actors/Dancers/Musicians (professionals and amateurs) for The Body’s Journey – Spring 2016, a project of Training, Research, and Devising, under the direction of Leela Alaniz.
The Body’s Journey – Spring 2016
Project of Training, Research and Devising
CALENDAR :
Monday March 7 to Thurday, May 26, 2016
Hours: Monday to Friday – 9am to 1pm
Final Show: May 26, 2016
Total : 240 hours / 20h per week
APPLICATIONS :
Deadline: February 22, 2016
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, salle MayB
75004 Paris
This new edition of The Body’s Journey benefits from the valuable collaboration of experienced artists/masters including: Dominique Moaty, practical training of singing, corporeal conscious, and musical play; Jean-François Dusigne, practical training of speech and breathing, and the impulses of text; Won Kim, practical training on play and improvisation.
Lectures-demonstrations enrich the conceptual understanding of the practical work and thus, we have invited specific teachers who come from diverse horizons: Gilberto Icle (Brazil) presents a Lecture on the Study of Presence and a practical training based on his book: From movement to the theatrical stage: techniques developed from popular Brazilian culture; Elizabeth de Roza (Singapore) presents a Lecture/Demonstration on Kalarippayattu – Technique and Artistic Creation; Won Kim presents a Lecture/Demonstration on The Counterweights of Etienne Decroux in the Contemporary World; Jesser de Souza (Brazil), Lecture/Demonstration : The Training Technique of the Actor; and Serge Troude presents a Lecture on the 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
148 rue du Faubourg Saint Denis, 75010, Paris
N° de SIRET : 491 955 704 00029 / Code APE: 923A
N° d’Activité: 11754611575
For More Information
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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,
February 22 to 26, 2016
From Monday to Friday
10am to 3pm
Total : 25hours
Price: 260 €
Micadanses
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
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Wham Bam! The magnificent world of Elysée Noèl
Wham Bam is back! For this latest edition, we present to you the magnificent world of Elysée Noèl, an artist that confounds categories. We invite you to explore his poetic world through an exhibition plus corporeal improvisation brought to you by our special cohorts of mimes and musicians. Come and celebrate a singular artistic experience that promises surprises and fun.
January 22, 2016
8pm
Comme Vous Emoi
5 Rue de la Révolution, 93100 Montreuil
métro croix de chavaux ligne 9
FREE ADMISSIONS
reservations highly suggested, only 60 people max.
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A unique improvisation event where dance, theatre, mime and music, both professional and amateur, collide in an improvised play set through an artistic theme of Elysée Noèl.
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Fine Art, video, poet, and actor who does
Collages, lighted items, video, poetic journal, happenings
More info here :
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Elysée Noèl
Won Kim
Hanako Danjo
Maëlle Leduc Corbet
Adèle Frantz
Amandine Audinot
Giorgia Ciampi
Irini Patoura
Philippe Chenevière
Löre Wernly
Thomas Cadelec
Nicolas Queinnec
Musicians
Didgé Morrad
Sébastian Levanneur
Maëlle Leduc Corbet
Phippe Chenevière
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Like every winter in Paris, the Pas de Dieux Company invites Thomas Leabhart to warm our bodies and hearts in a two-week workshop of Corporeal Mime technique of Etienne Decroux. This workshop’s theme will be “The Mobile Immobility – an Act of Passion”.
WORKSHOP:
“The Mobile Immobility – an Act of Passion”.
PARIS,
JANUARY 4-14, 2016
Monday 4 to Saturday 9 and
Monday 11 to Thursday 14
9am to 1pm
Total: 40h/ 330 €
Possibility of AFDAS funding (French Citizens Only).
Micadanses
15 rue Geoffroy L’Asnier, 75004 Paris
Metro, Saint Paul (line 1) or
Pont Marie (line 7)
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Won KIM
+33 (0) 6 71 61 93 94
Leela ALANIZ
leela(at)pasdedieux.com
As part of the Biennale des Arts du Mime et du Geste 2015, The companies Pas de Dieux and Mangano-Massip present to you a crowd favorite improvisational event, Mim’provisation:
November 20, 2015, 8pm
Akuarium
26 Rue André Joineau, 93310 Le Pré-Saint-Gervais
Metro Hoche (5 mins walking)
Audience : General, Length : 90 – 120 minutes
Entrance : 5 €
Invited Artists
Evening Presenter : Patrice Thibaud
Elena Serra
Maxime Nourrisat
Hanako Danjo
Nikolas Lévé
Janaina Tupan
Sébastien Loesner
Andrés Angulo
Esther Mollo
Eric Zobel
Guerassim Dichliev
Elisa Giovannetti
Sylvia Maria Alves
Eric Martin
Maëlle Leduc-Corbet
Philippe Chenevière
Gus Guillen
Léo Hatte
What is Mim’provisation?
Started in June, 2010, Mim’provisation grew out of the personal necessities of mime artists to improvise and challenge themselves and their craft. While contact improvisations, improvisational theatre, and breakdance battles already exist; Mim’provisation fills a gap and breathes fresh light air to the universe of physical expression. On this stage of corporeal improvisation, the intensity of a battle in front of a very critical audience results in poetic construction and unique expression. Rather than virtuosic performance measures, improvisational play focuses more on how the imaginary springs to life.
We are living in a post-modern era of mime where the original modern masters like Etienne Decroux, Marcel Marceau, Jacques Lecoq, and Henryk Tomaszewski have passed away, and where the art of mime has evolved into budding interdisciplinary variations such as mime-dance, clown mime, abstract mime, and physical theatre. Mim’provisation offers an encounter for today’s vast array of artists and their unique forms, personalities, and talent to come together to witness, share and play together. And through this live challenge and dialogue, a more heightened level of beauty and creative surprise blooms.
For the unsuspecting audience, Mim’provisation will awaken the imagination and touch the soul from laughter to amazement. Witnessing some of the best mime artists, they participate in the process of evolution of the contemporary mime that yearns to redefine itself beyond the dominant stereotype of the “white-masked pantomime”.
The event takes place in two parts:
In the first part, a group of selected or “invited” mime artists demonstrate their skills. They are guided by an invited master of ceremony.
In the second part, the public become the actors and are invited to improvise, in duo, trios according to a given theme.
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