Workshop Yoshi Oida

1-6 October, 2009

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

 

Student of the Kyogen Theatre Maestro Okura-San and than collaborator for more than 30 years of Peter Brook, Yoshi Oida is an unique and fascinating example of mixture between Oriental theatre techniques and Occidental ones, both in a way marked by excellence.

 

“Yoshi Oida shows how the mysteries and secrets of performance are inseparable from a precise, concrete and detailed science learned in the heat of experience. The vital lessons he passes on to us are told with such lightness and grace that, typically, the difficulties become invisible.”

Peter Brook

 

 

Workshop of releasing the energies of the actor and intensifying his presence on stage by exploring the potential of movement and voice.

 

“Workshop for researching movement and voice based on Japanese culture.

The earth and sky move, the universe moves and human beings are made to move.

We can learn something about our universe by exploring our body's movements.

It is said a Japanese philosopher that human body is, in fact, a universe on a reduced scale.”( www.yoshioida.com)

JEAN JACQUES LEMÊTRE - Théâtre du Soleil
Action, Rhythm, and the Actor

12-15 July,  2010 Aţel, Romania

 

Focus on understanding and strengthening the presence of the actor in live performance.

Character building discovered through the body, through rhythm and through analysis of the single major driving force behind all theatre: the Story.

Rhythms in the body and in the voice, orchestration of the spoken and chanted word and of naturalistic texts.

Rhythm and music related to text in different traditions – occidental, oriental and far eastern.

Ways of approaching  the voice and body as either independent or interdependent forms of expression.

An exploration through movement, rhythm and storytelling of some of the most essential tools available to the actor.

 

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.

 

 

 

The Rhythm of the Performance and the Actor’s Music
Led by Frans Winther
(Composer at Odin Teatret Nordic Theatre Laboratory of Eugenio Barba)

1-3 July, 2011, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

 

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.

 

Frans Winther studied composition at the Nordjysk Musikkonservatorium. Since 1987 in collaboration with Odin Teatret in Holstebro, Denmark. Composition of music to theatre performances by the Odin Teatret, directed by Eugenio Barba.