RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEXT AND PHYSICAL ACTIONS

A two week workshop led by Tage Larsen, Odin Teatret

 

The workshop deals with a particular physical approach to text and the text's presentation and is based on a dynamic, visual and sound preparation of an actor through physical and vocal training. The training explores and challenges the actors' physical ability, imagination, and capacity to create and mould expressions. The actors learn exercises and then begin to create some of their own. A personal set of actions is linked together to be repeated in various ways, working on space, rhythm, volume, resistance, opposition, colours and humour. Improvisations and compositions are fixed and refined in their physical form and then confronted with a text. The texts are chosen by the participants: something they are eager to explore and transmit. The text will be realised in different ways. Text and action will give and take from each other.

 

For 16 participants and 4 observers
 

Needs: Each participant is required to learn by heart a text before coming to the workshop.

Language: The workshop will be conducted in English. Tage Larsen can communicate with the participants in Italian, Spanish, Danish and French.

 

TAGE LARSEN started at Odin Teatret in 1971 as a 'helping hand' and soon was accepted as an actor. He remained with Odin Teatret until 1987 when he started his own group, Yorick Teatret. In the ten years away from Odin Teatret, Tage also taught at the Nordisk Teater Skole in Århus and worked as a freelance actor with Teater La Balance and Cantabile 2. In 1997 he returned to Odin Teatret to be part of the performance Mythos. Tage Larsen worked in the following performances at Odin Teatret: My Father's House, The Book of Dances, Come! And the Day Will Be Ours, Anabasis, The Million, Ashes of Brecht, The Gospel according to Oxyrhincus, Mythos, Ode to Progress, Whispering Winds, Great Cities under the Moon, Andersen's Dream, Inside the Skeleton of the Whale, Don Giovanni all'inferno, The Marriage of Medea, The Chronic Life. He still acts and directs performances outside Odin Teatret and gives workshops for actors all over the world. He regularly creates and directs the main local performance during Holstebro Festuge (Festive Week) and has directed Madame Bovary with Anna Lica (Denmark); The Starry Messenger with Donald Kitt (Canada); Lady Swettenham with Sabera Shaik of Masakini Theatre Company (Malaysia); Sancho Panza e Non Chisciotte with Mario Barzaghi of Teatro Dell'Albero, Italy.

Applications must reach Odin Teatret by 20 November 2011 and a selection of participants will be made by 30 November. The application form below must be addressed to odin@odinteatret.dk, attention Nathalie Jabalé, and marked TEXT AND PHYSICAL ACTIONS.

 

FEE: 3.000 DKK (about 400 Euro) for the workshop including spartan lodging in the Odin guesthouse, free access to services (kitchen, laundry and internet), use of working venues and stage equipment. To be paid by 15 December 2011 once you have received confirmation of selection. Participants will be requested to help with practical tasks inside the theatre, including daily cleaning.