MOVING STRUCTURES
AND
MACHINES SHOPPE
Dynamic laboratory study of space and rhythm through
design application and material construction
Session A- Theme explored: HUMAN PASSIONS
Session B- Theme explored: A SHORT STORY (tbd)
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This long-term laboratory is created not only for professional performers, directors and designers in theatre but also for artists, sculptors, painters, architects, writers, and filmmakers.
The work develops in two different directions.
Participants will initially observe and experience - through identification - utilizing ‘re-play’ with the body (“the miming body in play”) the dynamic of: colors, language, music, human feelings, passions, shapes and spaces; discovering the laws of movement, the body in space, and the space of the body.
After this physical experience, participants will be creating three-dimensional objects, portable structures, small models of theatrical space and other inventions of their imagination that will be explored and moved.
All structures and forms will be built using the universal principles of architectural language utilizing materials like wood, cardboard, clay, paper, plastic and strings. They will eventually develop into set models, machines, costumes, marionettes, masks, etc…
The journey of this work is not focused simply on the final construction but rather on the understanding of the dynamics of construction, in which the creator can play, and the discovery of how any form informs the articulation of the space including the energy outside and around it.
The work doesn’t give solutions to problems but rather raises questions regarding movement and perception, aiming to develop a heightened awareness and critical perspective of space and its dynamics while giving shape to the invisible as well as body and movement to things that seem to have none.
The work is an inquiry into the depths of imagination and its articulation!
There is a scheduled final presentation of all resulting research and work to an invited public.
SESSION A - Tues & Wed, - 6.00pm to 10.00pm
January: 12-13, 19-20, 26-27
February: 2-3, 9-10, 16-17, 23-24
March: 2-3, 9-10, 16-17, 20 - rehearsal day, 21 - final performance
SESSION B – Tues & Wed, - 6.00pm to 10.00pm
April: 6-7, 13-14, 20-21, 27-28
May: 4-5, 11-12, 18-19, 25-26
June: 1-2, 5 - rehearsal day, 6 - final performance
$80 each week (10 weeks total)
Contact Paola to schedule a phone conversation previous to the registration
