Suzuki - Viewpoints Soif Cie is inviting Will Bond From SITI COMPANY New York July 17-28 Photo : Guergana Damianova Paris - France 2017
Suzuki - Viewpoints Physical Theater workshop Training the notion of ensemble, awareness and expressivity. Schedule : Monday to Friday : 10 am - 2 pm (except Monday 17th : 1 pm - 5 pm) Training : Suzuki with Will Bond Viewpoints & Feldenkraïs with Claire Astruc Butoh with Marianne Kim Location : Micadanses 15, rue Geoffroy-l Asnier, 75004 PARIS Subway : St-Paul or Pont-Marie FRANCE
Workshop content Suzuki method Developed by internationally acclaimed director, Tadashi Suzuki and the Suzuki Company of Toga, the Suzuki Actor Training Method's principle concern is with restoring the wholeness of the human body to the theatrical context and uncovering the actor's innate expressive abilities. A rigorous physical discipline drawn from such diverse influences as ballet, traditional Japanese and Greek theater and martial arts, the training seeks to heighten the actor's emotional and physical power and commitment to each moment on the stage. Attention is on the lower body and a vocabulary of footwork, sharpening the actor's breath control and concentration. Viewpoints The Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the post-modern dance world. It was first articulated by choreographer Mary Overlie who broke down the two dominant issues performers deal with - time and space - into six categories. She called her approach the Six Viewpoints. Since that time, Artistic Director Anne Bogart and SITI Company have expanded her notions and adapted them for actors. The Viewpoints allows a group of actors to function together spontaneously and intuitively and to generate bold, theatrical work quickly. It develops flexibility, articulation, and strength in movement, and makes ensemble playing really possible. Butoh Created during the same generation as the Suzuki Acting Technique, Japanese Butoh is an imagistic neo-expressionistic dance form that explores the concept of the body in crisis. Images are introduced and layered for the practitioner to embody internally and then to manifest externally. Feldenkrais Feldenkrais method is a somatic educational system of gentle movements that promote flexibility, coordination and self-awareness. Thus, the interaction between movement, thinking and feelings is deeply perceived.
Trainers Will Bond is a founding member of SITI Company. He has performed and toured internationally in SITI s Lost in the Stars (at CAP_UCLA), The Medium, Small Lives/Big Dreams, Culture of Desire, Bob (Drama Desk Nomination best solo performance of the year), Radio Macbeth, Bobrauschenbergamerica, Death and the Ploughman, Who Do You Think You Are, and Persians, with Tadashi Suzuki and SCOT in Dionysus and as Cornwall in The Tale of Lear, and with Robert Wilson s Persephone. Mr. Bond has also toured with the Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane dance company in A Rite and Continuous Replay. Regional works include: Macbeth, The Lover, Creditors, Mystery of Irma Vep, Night Must Fall, The Tempest, Hamlet. Original works include: The Perfect Human V2 with Marianne Kim, History of the World from the very Beginning with Christian Frederickson & Brian Scott, Lost & Found (a commission from EMPAC) with Marianne Kim and Brian Scott, and in collaboration with Deborah Hay I ll Crane For You - a solo performance dance theater work. Most recently Will performed a new SITI work, Chess Match No 5 in NYC. Marianne Kim is a Korean American artist working in multimedia installation, performance art, and screendance. Her video has been screened in over 50 different cities in 28 different countries. Her most recent presentations include Athens Video Dance Project, Dance Film Association/Film Society of Lincoln Center, Wexner Center for the Arts, International Screendance Festival at American Dance Festival, MIVSC São Carlos Videodance Festival, Agite y Sirva Festival Itinerante de Videodanza, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Ciné-Corps Festival de Films Sur La Danse in France, The Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, The Feldman Gallery + Project Space in Portland, de la Cruz Collection in Miami, and the Poznan Biennial in Poland. Kim s short film Martiality, Not Fighting was awarded a Dioraphte Jury Award at Cinedans 2016 in Amsterdam, Best Performance Award at the Voarte InShadow International Festival of Video, Performance and Technologies in 2014, and Best Short Film at Dance Camera West 2015 in Los Angeles. Claire Astruc French performer was trained in physical theater at the Jacques Lecoq International Theatre School (Paris, France) and at the New York University Experimental Theatre Wing studio (NYU). Her meeting with Anne Bogart and SITI Company, along with the Suzuki and Viewpoints methods, was decisive in her training and career. Since then, Claire has continued to extend her personal research on expressive movement, while directing physical theater shows in a yearly partnership with the University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre. She has organised several international workshops with SITI Company, in Paris at Micadanses studios. She is a founding member of Soif Compagnie, with which she has performed in numerous creations among which Chute libre, Les Souliers rouges, Penthesilée by Kleist, L Incroyable histoire de Mme Berlingot, Carapace, Gaia Global Circus, and Scenes from a Marriage by Ingmar Bergman. Trained to the Feldenkraïs method (awareness through movement), she regularly teaches and coordinates Creative body workshops, as well as physical trainings for professional artists.
Application Send resume & photo contact@soifcompagnie.com Deadline : May 15th - Fee : 500 For more information : contact@soifcompagnie.com www.soifcompagnie.com (+033) 06 20 47 20 31 Claire Astruc Photo : Guergana Damianova