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W A R S A W M I M E C E N T E R F O U N D A T I O N , P O L A N D
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
The vision of our program is to provide our participants with a curriculum that spans the breadth of the Modern Art of Mime.
Our interest is not to teach the style of a singular creator or artist; in fact, our goal is completely the opposite. Our vision, is to meld together all of the essential elements from all of the key innovators of modern mime into one solid and clear curriculum.
The "structures" we present enable the participant to understand elements of mime in a singular fashion, and later combine them according to their particular vision and style of work they intend to pursue.
Our working relationship with our students will be long term. As it was with the original Goldston School for Mimes, the School for Modern Mime will function as a school of thought and develop the artistry of its’ participants throughout the year.
It will serve the professional artist by providing artistic direction, provide the beginner student with a solid base of training along side of participants who are already deep within the art, as well as serve as a center point for mime collaboration for company projects.
Our interest is not to teach the style of a singular creator or artist; in fact, our goal is completely the opposite. Our vision, is to meld together all of the essential elements from all of the key innovators of modern mime into one solid and clear curriculum.
The "structures" we present enable the participant to understand elements of mime in a singular fashion, and later combine them according to their particular vision and style of work they intend to pursue.
Our working relationship with our students will be long term. As it was with the original Goldston School for Mimes, the School for Modern Mime will function as a school of thought and develop the artistry of its’ participants throughout the year.
It will serve the professional artist by providing artistic direction, provide the beginner student with a solid base of training along side of participants who are already deep within the art, as well as serve as a center point for mime collaboration for company projects.
PROGRAM
The Daily Schedule is based upon the work to be shown in the evening "Lab Class." The Lab Class is the time where all of the participants will present a 2 to 5 minute piece based upon the assignment given in the afternoon Composition class. The assignments span several compositional structures and cover both Solo and Group choreography formats.
Each day, the morning and afternoon sessions will prepare the student with the techniques, acting methods and choreographic knowledge to complete the given assignment for the evening Lab. Over the two-week program, these assignments build upon each other and give the participants a broad knowledge and set of performance skills to continue on their own throughout the upcoming year.
Each day, the morning and afternoon sessions will prepare the student with the techniques, acting methods and choreographic knowledge to complete the given assignment for the evening Lab. Over the two-week program, these assignments build upon each other and give the participants a broad knowledge and set of performance skills to continue on their own throughout the upcoming year.
CLASS DESTRIPTION
The following classes are coordinated throughout the day, and week in order to best provide the participants with the essential information needed to choreograph and perform evening Lab assignments on a daily basis.
ACTING IN MODERN MIME THEATRE
These classes present the method of modern Pantomime acting, which allows the actor to present a clear stream of thought to an audience. Monologue, dialogue, message are then used as part of etudes and improvisation, where they develop realism and the clarity of purpose.
SCRIPT WRITING, MIME DIRECTING
Here, we will focus on finding ways of writing etudes - short forms for theatre beyond words.
Seeing as there is next to no literature created for mime theatre, the ability to write and direct can prove priceless.
POETIC STORYTELLING:
These classes will explore what stories are and how they might be poetically translated and told through the body. How they might be the carriers of atmospheres, landscapes and emotions – both internal and external – and how they might help us move ourselves, the space and so the audience. Working with fairy tales as a starting point, we will also touch on other narrative realms, such as the stories of melodrama, tragedy and farce.
PLASTIC/VISUAL THEATRE
Director Lionel Menard, working for years as an actor and the assistant of the legendary Compagnie Phillipe Genty as well as Compagnie Marcel Marceau has developed his own work system, which is a skilful combination of an intriguing search for content as well as form.
As one of the most important contemporary directors of the art of mime in Europe, he shows a world of theatre that is full of magic and truth.
PHYSICAL COMEDY conducted on 12 occasions by Pierre-Ives Massip (France)
These classes make it possible to broaden your acting abilities via various group and solo scene. In 2019, the physicality of comedy and a whole body as a means of artistic expression will receive the most focus.
The methods of building action will be explored, as well as the principle and methods of building relations and the use of each individual's natural, individual potential..
QUALITY OF MOVEMENT/ PLASTYKA CIAŁA (Polish Term):
Designed to pronounce the student's strength, stretch, balance, and lyricism. This class will focus on the elements from classic part of Polisch pantomime training called "Plastyka Ciała" that are needed for the art of mime. The class will function as a warm-up and technique class.
DECROUX TECHNIQUE:
This class concentrates upon the work created by Etienne Decroux known as Triple-Design, Plum Line, and Counter-Weight. This will follow the "Plastyka Ciała" and is a highly technical class that develops the separation of body parts and physical musicality.
TOMASZEWSKI TECHNIQUE:
This class emphasizes the stylistic elements created by Henryk Tomaszewski known as Group Composition, Contrapuntal movement, Creating of a Character. This class is designed to develop physicality, strength, and rhythm.
MARCEAU TECHNIQUE:
This class emphasizes the illusionary and acting techniques created by Marcel Marceau known as Marches, Character stances, Elliptic and Metamorphose, as well as stage projection and physical suspension.
ILLUSIONARY TECHNIQUE:
A class dedicated to the Illusionary techniques needed to create the invisible world through the creation and manipulations of objects, environments, as well as the techniques of compressing time and space are covered in this class.
FACULTY ASSISTED REHEARSAL:
On days when the students are given more complex assignments, extra rehearsal time is offered with the faculty on hand to help with the construction and development of the student's work.
LABORATORY CLASS:
The Evening Laboratory class is the heart of the curriculum system as the daily class schedule throughout Two-Week program is geared towards the assignments given for Lab. The School's curriculum revolves around four choreographic writing structures. These structures enable the mime artist to write works within each structure and then combine them as needed for any particular idea or concept being pursued. Gregg Goldston developed these writing structures and assignments over the past several decades at the School for Mimes and the Goldston New York studio. These structures are as follows and can be applied to both Solo and Group Choreography:
One-character plays, Multi-Character plays, Placeless-Plots and Metamorphosis.
GAGA CLASSES
Gaga is a movement language which Ohad Naharin developed over the course of many years and which is applied in daily practice and exercises by the Batsheva Dance Company members. The language of Gaga originated from the belief in the healing, dynamic, ever-changing power of movement, and it continues to evolve today.
Gaga is a new way of gaining knowledge and self-awareness through your body. Gaga provides a framework for discovering and strengthening your body and adding flexibility, stamina, and agility while lightening the senses and imagination. Gaga raises awareness of physical weaknesses, awakens numb areas, exposes physical fixations, and offers ways for their elimination. The work improves instinctive movement and connects conscious and unconscious movement, and it allows for an experience of freedom and pleasure in a simple way, in a pleasant space, in comfortable clothes, accompanied by music, each person with himself and others
THE DAILY SCHEDULE
Morning Session: 9:00 to 13:00
-- Lunch Break --
Afternoon Session: 14:30 to 17:30
-- Dinner Break --
Evening Lab Session: 19:00 to 21:00-22.00
(Depending on the assignment)
ACTING IN MODERN MIME THEATRE
These classes present the method of modern Pantomime acting, which allows the actor to present a clear stream of thought to an audience. Monologue, dialogue, message are then used as part of etudes and improvisation, where they develop realism and the clarity of purpose.
SCRIPT WRITING, MIME DIRECTING
Here, we will focus on finding ways of writing etudes - short forms for theatre beyond words.
Seeing as there is next to no literature created for mime theatre, the ability to write and direct can prove priceless.
POETIC STORYTELLING:
These classes will explore what stories are and how they might be poetically translated and told through the body. How they might be the carriers of atmospheres, landscapes and emotions – both internal and external – and how they might help us move ourselves, the space and so the audience. Working with fairy tales as a starting point, we will also touch on other narrative realms, such as the stories of melodrama, tragedy and farce.
PLASTIC/VISUAL THEATRE
Director Lionel Menard, working for years as an actor and the assistant of the legendary Compagnie Phillipe Genty as well as Compagnie Marcel Marceau has developed his own work system, which is a skilful combination of an intriguing search for content as well as form.
As one of the most important contemporary directors of the art of mime in Europe, he shows a world of theatre that is full of magic and truth.
PHYSICAL COMEDY conducted on 12 occasions by Pierre-Ives Massip (France)
These classes make it possible to broaden your acting abilities via various group and solo scene. In 2019, the physicality of comedy and a whole body as a means of artistic expression will receive the most focus.
The methods of building action will be explored, as well as the principle and methods of building relations and the use of each individual's natural, individual potential..
QUALITY OF MOVEMENT/ PLASTYKA CIAŁA (Polish Term):
Designed to pronounce the student's strength, stretch, balance, and lyricism. This class will focus on the elements from classic part of Polisch pantomime training called "Plastyka Ciała" that are needed for the art of mime. The class will function as a warm-up and technique class.
DECROUX TECHNIQUE:
This class concentrates upon the work created by Etienne Decroux known as Triple-Design, Plum Line, and Counter-Weight. This will follow the "Plastyka Ciała" and is a highly technical class that develops the separation of body parts and physical musicality.
TOMASZEWSKI TECHNIQUE:
This class emphasizes the stylistic elements created by Henryk Tomaszewski known as Group Composition, Contrapuntal movement, Creating of a Character. This class is designed to develop physicality, strength, and rhythm.
MARCEAU TECHNIQUE:
This class emphasizes the illusionary and acting techniques created by Marcel Marceau known as Marches, Character stances, Elliptic and Metamorphose, as well as stage projection and physical suspension.
ILLUSIONARY TECHNIQUE:
A class dedicated to the Illusionary techniques needed to create the invisible world through the creation and manipulations of objects, environments, as well as the techniques of compressing time and space are covered in this class.
FACULTY ASSISTED REHEARSAL:
On days when the students are given more complex assignments, extra rehearsal time is offered with the faculty on hand to help with the construction and development of the student's work.
LABORATORY CLASS:
The Evening Laboratory class is the heart of the curriculum system as the daily class schedule throughout Two-Week program is geared towards the assignments given for Lab. The School's curriculum revolves around four choreographic writing structures. These structures enable the mime artist to write works within each structure and then combine them as needed for any particular idea or concept being pursued. Gregg Goldston developed these writing structures and assignments over the past several decades at the School for Mimes and the Goldston New York studio. These structures are as follows and can be applied to both Solo and Group Choreography:
One-character plays, Multi-Character plays, Placeless-Plots and Metamorphosis.
GAGA CLASSES
Gaga is a movement language which Ohad Naharin developed over the course of many years and which is applied in daily practice and exercises by the Batsheva Dance Company members. The language of Gaga originated from the belief in the healing, dynamic, ever-changing power of movement, and it continues to evolve today.
Gaga is a new way of gaining knowledge and self-awareness through your body. Gaga provides a framework for discovering and strengthening your body and adding flexibility, stamina, and agility while lightening the senses and imagination. Gaga raises awareness of physical weaknesses, awakens numb areas, exposes physical fixations, and offers ways for their elimination. The work improves instinctive movement and connects conscious and unconscious movement, and it allows for an experience of freedom and pleasure in a simple way, in a pleasant space, in comfortable clothes, accompanied by music, each person with himself and others
THE DAILY SCHEDULE
Morning Session: 9:00 to 13:00
-- Lunch Break --
Afternoon Session: 14:30 to 17:30
-- Dinner Break --
Evening Lab Session: 19:00 to 21:00-22.00
(Depending on the assignment)
12th School of Modern Mime Teachers 5-17 August 2019
Lionel Menard (France) - dramaturgy, writing structures, acting in nonverbal theatre
Sara Mangano (Italy) - Actor and his inner visible world in mime and physical theatre
Cat Gerrard – Poetic storytelling and the embodied voice of performer, director and writer in nonverbal theatre
Pierre Ives Massip (France) - Physical comedy in nonverbal theatre
Bartlomiej Ostapczuk(Poland) - Mime technik, feelings and poetry in nonverbal theatre
How to Apply?
The best way is to contact with us by writing e-mail on: [email protected] then we will contact you and do the rest.
You may also call on +48 793 019 736.
Lionel Menard (France) - dramaturgy, writing structures, acting in nonverbal theatre
Sara Mangano (Italy) - Actor and his inner visible world in mime and physical theatre
Cat Gerrard – Poetic storytelling and the embodied voice of performer, director and writer in nonverbal theatre
Pierre Ives Massip (France) - Physical comedy in nonverbal theatre
Bartlomiej Ostapczuk(Poland) - Mime technik, feelings and poetry in nonverbal theatre
How to Apply?
The best way is to contact with us by writing e-mail on: [email protected] then we will contact you and do the rest.
You may also call on +48 793 019 736.
SARA MANGANO (IT) and PIERRE YVES-MASSIP (FR)
met in 1994 at the Marcel Marceau school of Mime and ever since then we have chosen to explore together the vast world of their imagination. For over fifteen years, they have worked as a duo to shape a gestural and visual theatre where the body is both the tool and the goal. "We work with the drama of movement that can echo our everyday lives with all its little ups and downs as well as take us on an epic lyrical journey into our thoughts". A poetic and popular theatre that whilst rooted in the grammar of mime desires to enrich itself with the vocabulary of other new theatrical styles.
After working within Marcel Marceau's Company and taking care of the creative of Acta Fabula Company during 10 years. Sara and Pierre-Yves founded in 2010 their own company: The Company Mangano-Massip (ex Autour du Mime).
Their work has given birth to numerous shows: « Archibald et Margaret », « Tell me the truth and other stories », «The adventures of Pym the clown », « The 4 seasons » and the work in progress « Life in a box »."We are very attached to the idea of transmitting our art, and our teaching is based on the understanding and use of the three major mime techniques: Marcel Marceau, Etienne Decroux and Jacques Lecoq. We strive for the recognition of the Art of Mime in the theatrical world and the eyes of the general public.:
http://www.compagniemanganomassip.com
CAT GERRARD (UK) - Performer, Director, Teacher
Cat is a performance-maker, storyteller, puppeteer, director and teacher from London, based in Berlin. She trained at LISPA, where she is now part of the core teaching team.
Cat has long been in the thrall and service of story, as both a creator and curator. In 2010 she founded storytelling company TailSpin, to explore the stories we need now and how we might translate and tell them for a contemporary audience.
Cat is co-founder of Berlin-based mask/puppet/physical theatre company Ulua(k) Teatro.
www.catgerrard.com
LIONEL MENARD (FR) – Director
A world-class, extraordinary director of pantomime productions, a teacher, a script writer.
He graduated from "Ecole Internationale de Mimodrame de Paris", ran by Marcel Marceau himself, who is considered the greatest mime of all time. Lionel Ménard was his student, actor and long-time collaborator.
He has also collaborated with CIE Philippe Genty, as well as Jean-Paul Goude.
He cooperates regularly with the Bödecker & Neander Compagnie theatre as a writer and director of most performances ("Silence", "Out of the blue", "Monsieur Satie", "Deja Vu", "Opus 4", "Follow Light", "Timelapse", "City Light") as well as the Theatre of the Warsaw Mime Center, where he directed the following outstanding shows: "Agua de lagrimas", "Gogol", "Marcel".
Lionel conducts periodical workshops in Berlin's "Die Etage" and "Mime Centrum" and, together with Bartłomiej Ostapczuk, the yearly Summer School of Modern Mime in Warsaw.
"In May 1968 I was scarcely a month old. My first plays played out between the line of my schoolbooks without words, without music, only pictures separating the world of dictations from the world of calculations. These interim spaces were freedom. Not insistent stories but windows between twenty-six mistakes in a dictation and nine eights are eighty. Forty years later I feel that I made a career from this.”
Lionel Menard
www.lionelmenard.com
photo by Kasia Chmura
BARTŁOMIEJ OSTAPCZUK (PL) Actor, director, performer, teacher
A mime artist, a pantomime director, a choreographer and a stage movement designer, a choreography and pantomime consultant in a drama performances, a teacher.
Since 2005, ha has been Artistic Director of the International Mime Art Festival.
He is the originator and founder of the the Warsaw Mime Center and Mimo Mime Theatre as well as Warsaw Mime Center Foundation and European Mime Federation (PL/CZ/D)
He has co-authored may projects and artistic productions related to pantomime and movement theatre. He has been running the Mime Studio in Warsaw since 2005.
He is lecturer in pantomime in Theatre Schools Poland and abroad.
He performed in Japan, Puetro Rico, the USA, the UK, Germany, China, Poland, Lithuania, Russia, France, Israel, South Korea, Sweden, Czech, Spain, Slovakia, New Zealand, Portugal, Italy, Luxemburg.
www.ostapczuk.eu
photo by Victor Horta
ADI WEINBERG-PREJNA
She graduated from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, the Haifa Program for Professional Dancers and did an apprenticeship in Vertigo Dance Company.
As a contemporary dancer she performed at many festivals around the world.
She has worked with choreographers and institutions, such as: Andrea Costanzo Martini, Nadar Rosano, Efrat Rubin, Rachel Erdos, Noa Zuk, Aviv Eveguy, Shimrit Golan, Yuval Goldstein, Sharon Vaisvaser, Deganit Shemi, Michael Miller, Fresco Dance Company, the Israeli Opera and the Polish National Opera.
Since 2014, she develops as a choreographer and preforms with her creations in different platforms and festivals such as Machol Shalem International Dance week, Tel Aviv Dance festival at Suzanne Dellal, MAAT festival, MSTT festival, KRoki festival and more. In 2017 she was awarded with a grant from Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts for developing her last choreography, "Indian Summer/Babie lato".
Adi is a certified Gaga teacher (the movement language developed by Ohad Naharin, artistic director and choreographer of the Batsheva Dance Company). Additionally, she is a Shiatsu therapist, Ayurveda-Seed masseur and a Pilates instructor.
www.adiweinberg.com
photo by Gadi Dagon
Fee for whole workshops is 550 Euro only! (The low price is possible thanks to Warsaw Mime Center Foundation)
If you wish to stay in theatre guest room then fee is 750 Euro but please first make sure we still have a space.
How to Apply?
The best way is to contact with us by writing e-mail on: [email protected] then we will contact you and do the rest.
You may also call on +48 793 019 736.
THERE IS NO MORE SPACE FOR 12th EDITION OF OUR SCHOOL in 2019.
If you wish to stay in theatre guest room then fee is 750 Euro but please first make sure we still have a space.
How to Apply?
The best way is to contact with us by writing e-mail on: [email protected] then we will contact you and do the rest.
You may also call on +48 793 019 736.
THERE IS NO MORE SPACE FOR 12th EDITION OF OUR SCHOOL in 2019.
The School of Modern Mime - Summer Intensive was founded in 2007 by Mr.Gregg Goldston and Mr. Bartlomiej Ostapczuk