The Body’s Journey
The project The Body’s Journey is the fruit of more than 20 years of experience in the theatre field (training, university research, teaching, devising). 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.
The play and the joy of playing, and the improvisation are part of the listening and of the sharing. The research with materials, the acrobatics, the voice work (text and sing) and the exercises of awareness and awakening the interior are also part of our training work, research and creation.
Our project, The Body’s Journey, will guide actors/dancers on a road to self-discovery in order to explore new corporeal paths through the listening of impulses, abandoning of stereotypical and mechanical behaviors, and through the discovery and the respect of a genuine organicity inherent in the body. A corporeal work conducted with attention and sensibility allows the actor/dancer to develop an original language capable of communicating to a larger audience and to cultivate openness to one’s self and to others, recovered through the artistic training of theatre and performance throughout the ages and across cultures.
The practical work of Evania Reichert and Sergio Veleda on the correlation between the physical blockages of the body and the living movement enriches this new version of The Body’s Journey, as well as theoretical seminars by Daniela Carmona and Adriano Basegio on rhythm and the actor’s play; Gilberto Icle on the study of presence; Won Kim on the play and the weight of the counterweight of the modern world; and on the teachings of Gurdjieff today Serge Troude.
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Pratice – with Leela Alaniz assisted by Won Kim
See Leela's Page See Won's Page• 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
• Acrobatics, Contact improvisation
• Corporeal Mime – Technique Etienne Decroux – articulations, counterweights, dynamo-rhythm, intra-corporeal and inter-spatial causalities.
• Alexander Technique – relaxation and liberation of the articulations
• Work with objects
• Voice – corporeal resonators, text
• Improvisations, play
• Compositions, structure
• Final Project – Presentation
Practice – with Evania Reichet and Segio Veleda
Living Body, Contemplative Body
- The correlation between the physical blockages and the living movements is explored through a series of physical exercises in order to contact and release the obstacles for free movements of the body. Meditation and contemplation are also part of this work.
Theory:
Gilberto Icle: The Study on the Presence
- This lecture presents the Study on the Presence, highlighting the epistemological aspects for research on performance practices. It seeks to contextualize the research that gave rise to studies on presence, describing the Brazilian academic context in which it is emergent. This is to circumscribe the research on the analysis of the creative process by putting into perspective the connection between this process and the non-interpretative aspect of the research.
Daniela Carmona and Adriano Basegio: The Rhythm and the Actor’s Play – Space, Time and Composition
- The rhythm of the play. The body taken as an instrument of rhythm and sound origin of the drama. The dramatic sound quality and importance in creating climates, moods of the theater stage. Body percussion and with concrete objects, dance and elements of African and Brazilian rhythms in improvisation.
Won Kim: The Counterweights of Etienne Decroux in the Contemporary World
- Through the optic of three existential levels: the physical, the technical, and the poetic, the study of the decrousien Counterweight presents the possibility of going beyond the illustrative representation and the illusion with the practical understanding of poetic counterweights not only for the art of corporeal mime, but across all corporeal activities related to sports, performing arts, and political resistance.
Serge Troude: The Gurdjieff’s Teachings Today
- A historical retrospective on the career of research and teaching of Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (1877-1949), who had a profound knowledge of Eastern ritual practices for the development of presence and then his desire to develop and adapt then that they could be used to contemporary man.
CALENDER :
From March 2 to May 22 2015
Monday to Friday – 9am to 1pm
Thursday – 2pm to 5pm
Preparation of Final Presentation: From 18 to 22 May 2015.
Final Presentation: May 22, 2015
Total 288 Hours / 24hours a week
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Micadanses
20 Rue Geoffroy l’Asnier, 75004 Paris
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CONTACT :
Won KIM
+33 (0) 6 71 61 93 94
leela(at)pasdedieux.com
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INVITED INSTRUCTORS
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Evania Reichert born in Brazil, she is a writer, professor of preventive in character education, psychophysical therapist (Wilhelm Reich approach) and co-director of the Vale do Ser School, Brazil. She is the author of the books “The Children, the sacred age” (Ed. Vale do Ser, Brazil, also published in Spain, Uruguay, Argentina and Colombia) and “SAT in education in the Amazon” (Ed. Eneasat Institute of Brazil).
Sergio Veleda born in Brazil, is a writer, poet, contemplative arts teacher, psychophysical therapist (Wilhelm Reich approach) and co-director of the Vale do Ser School, Brazil. Author of the books “The Art of balance on an empty background” (Ed. Kalango, Brazil), and “I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.” (Ed. Kalango, Brazil). Sergio is also a research in Sufi Tradition.
Gilberto Icle
Gilberto Icle docteur in Education from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), where he is Professor at Post-graduation of Education Program, where he coordinates and the Study Group in Education, Theatre and Performance (GETEPE-UFRGS). He also coordinates the UTA – Usina do Trabalho do Ator, group of research and artistic creation. He is also editor of the Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presenca (UFRGS), Brazil.
Serge Troude
Serge Troude, French, President of the Gurdjieff Institute in Paris, he worked with Michel de Salzmann and was more than 10 years the representative of the heirs of GI Gurdjieff worldwide. Mr. Troude works in Gurdjieff’s teaching for nearly three decades.
Won Kim
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.
