CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
ARTHOC Workshops 2010 : The Rhythm of the Actor/Dancer & Theatre Music
Frans Winther (Odin Teatret) & Jean-Jacques Lemêtre (Théâtre du Soleil)
7-10 July – Frans Winther Workshop: The Rhythm of the Performance and the Actor’s Music
11 July – Visit to the Fortified Churches of Transylvania
12-15 July – Jean-Jacques Lemêtre Workshop: Action, Rhythm, and the Actor
Opened for actors, dancers, composers, coreographers, musicians and directors
(students and professionals)
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The Rhythm of the Performance and the Actor’s Music
Led by Frans Winther
(Composer at Odin Teatret/Nordic Theatre Laboratory of Eugenio Barba)
7-10 July 2010 |
The workshop includes improvisations with voice training, song, speech and rhythm and movements. Each day begins with vocal warm ups as a combination of voice training exercises and exercises aiming at gaining theatrical volume and power of expression. During this intensive workshop actors, dancers, musicians, directors, singers work together concretely using voice, song and improvisations. These materials are progressively worked into a montage that clearly demonstrates how the dramaturgy of sound can be unfolded. [more][close]
Theatre as Music – Music is a basic component in any kind of theatre. It may take the form of song and music or provide the rhythm that seeps into the dramatic structure of a performance. Frans Winther, the composer of the Odin Teatret has over a number of years developed a series of workshops, focusing on theatre as music. In the workshops actors, dancers, musicians, directors, students, drama teachers and singers work together concretely using voice, song, improvisations and montage.
Musical Dramaturgy – A performance is a symphony of words, images, movements, but also sound that provides the impetus to its artistic drive. The concept of musical tension is a complex phenomenon that is evident to the listener or the spectator yet hard to describe formally. The musical dramaturgy is a core point for the artistic result of any performance. It may be expressed through song, instrumental music, and the rhythm that underscores the dramatic structure of a performance.
The Workshop is structured as a Series of Sessions:
Improvisation: Joint improvisations. Individual improvisation.
Words and Music: Presentation of a poem as speech, talk song with underlying choral work or with a tune composed for the occasion. Group work with the individual poem, inserted into a musical context.
Musical Dramaturgy: Research of musical options in words and sentences. A presentation is elaborated using individual songs. Some songs are transformed, new voices, or an instrumental accompaniment are added. The presentation is rehearsed, with special focus on tension.
Number of participants
25
Frans Winther studied composition at the Nordjysk Musikkonservatorium.
Since 1987 in collaboration with Odin Teatret in Holstebro, Denmark. He composed music to theatre performances by the Odin Teatret, directed by Eugenio Barba. (more)
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Action, Rhythm, and the Actor
Led by Jean-Jacques Lemêtre
(Composer and musician at the Théâtre du Soleil of Ariane Mnouchkine)
12-15 July, 2010 |
An exploration through movement, rhythm and storytelling of some of the most essential tools available to the actor.
Special focus will be placed on better understanding and strengthening the presence of the actor in live performance as well as on character building discovered through the body, through rhythm and through analysis of the single major driving force behind all theatre: Story.
Jean-Jacques Lemêtre will work especially on rhythms in the body and in the voice, orchestration of the spoken and chanted word and of naturalistic texts. He will also explore how rhythm and music relates to text in different traditions – occidental, oriental and far eastern, and how the voice and body can be approached as either independent or interdependent forms of expression.
Number of participants
35
Jean-Jacques Lemêtre is an internationally renowned composer, musician and professor of music, composing music for both theatre and film. He composed and interpreted music to theatre performances by Ariane Mnouchkine at the Théâtre du soleil. (more)
With the help of:
If you are interested in participating, please send an email to: kinga.kovacs@arthoc.ro
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