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With Jordi L. Vidal
This project consists in two parts.
dance and physical theatre improvisation and composition workshop / laboratory
and as result a final public presentation(s).
THE TOPIC(S)
This project can be adapted to different topics.
The central theme will be chosen according to the needs of the organizers.
We have already treated the issues of transformation, dreams, the other: barriers and limits, diversity...
WORKSHOP / LABORATORY
Each working session is composed of:
★ Guided improvisations:
as a way to research and develop as much as analyse, understand and enlarge performing experience.
★ Using props, costumes, pictures, texts, music, videos ... so that, all those elements can contaminate and trigger your imagination.
★ Instant compositions
Create scenes, scenic materials and choreographic phrases. Consciousness & assimilation of the improvisations thanks to composition and creation tools
FINAL PUBLIC PRESENTATION(S)
This is a unique opportunity to experience the process of creating a performance in a respectful way on the personality of each one and both with high standards of quality and everyone’s commitment.
The performance’s material comes out of guided improvisations and is subsequently developed and enriched throughout the sessions.
Following the final performance, each participant receives a free copy of the video footage and photos taken while playing.
GOALS
As a result of this work, the participants will:
★ Develop their personality as well as their creativity potential.
★ through a presence in the “Here and Now” connect their imagination to their body movements.
★ Work with their body and its expression, its presence, its spatial significance, its conscious and unconscious images …therefore, its own language.
★ To acquire new improvisational & composition tools and skills and choreographies.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Workshop:
In a studio of approximately 9m x 9m with heating and/or air conditioning according to the weather, with an area where we can prepare tea, coffee, etc. with access to toilets ideally with sound equipment
Final public presentation(s):
location(s) To be decided together with the organizers.
It will be tailor-made depending on the location and can easily adapt to various equipment techniques and can be played outdoors and indoors, day or night.
The duration is approximately 40 minutes
The ideal duration for the entire project is 7 days. For example, a week, from Monday to Saturday or Sunday, or once a week.
Schedule: depending of the group of participants, between 3 and 6 hours per day.
Target audience:
Minimum 8 and maximum 20
We would like to work with your local inhabitants.
An inclusive project for any adult (amateur and/or professional) having regular practice in performing arts (theatre, dance, circus, etc.) and who wants to explore his/her creativity with movement.
They will be recruited in advance by Jordi and/or the organizers.
teaser atelier creation from Jordi L. Vidal on Vimeo.
FINAL PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
Oct and Nov 2024 Medical Humanities ULB - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
April and May 2022 organise by MCA and CAR Centre Des Arts de la Rue Ath, Belgium
August 2021 as part of Poetic Invasion GC De Huys, Brussels, Belgium
October 2021 as part of Poetic Invasion Teatru Radu Stanca, Sibiu, Romania
January 2020 at La Faktoria Pamplona, Spain
From 18th till 23rd March 2019 as part of Poetic Invasion Veregra Festival Montegranaro, Italy
From 25th till 29th March 2019 as part of Poetic Invasion La Strada Bremen, Germany
June 2018 as part of Poetic Invasion Teatru Radu Stanca Sibiu, Romania
May 2018 as part of Poetic Invasion Veregra Festival Montegranaro, Italy
March 2018 at Cité Miroir Liège, Belgium
April 2017 Theatre Marni Brussels
November 2016 at Theatre Le Moderne Liege, Belgium
March 2016 at GC De Linde, Brussels
March 2015 at Theatre Montagne Magique Brussels
November 2011 as part of "Dense Bamako Danse festival" Mali, Africa
"Thank you for this wonderful adventure full of wonderful encounters, emotions, feelings, creativity, and pure happiness." Aurélie, schoolteacher
"I loved the group dynamics: the listening there was between us, the good mood, confidence, the diversity between us ... as always with your super positive spirit and your rigorous work mix with your madness." Loic, socio cultural animator
"First, thank you for making me live a beautiful experience, to have believed and making us feel so loved! In the final presentation, I felt supported by the audience and the group, I felt that everything breathed kindness. To listen oneself and the others, to be fully present, reactive and generous .... a great program that I loved !" Anne
"I loved the workshops you made us live (...) it was bright, invigorating, playful, intelligent, subtle, intense, strong." Bénédicte
"Thank you for having conducted this training with great professionalism, both in creativity and in direction." Annick, school teacher
"I’ve got to meet and get to know beautiful people with very different backgrounds and very rich life experience." Christel
"Thank you and all the participants for this great adventure which greatly helped me in my personal reconstruction. That gave me confidence in me and allowed me to reconnect with my body and my physicality." Laetitia
“Already a week that the workshop is finished and I still think about it ... What a beautiful week! Great experience! A very nice group, beautiful encounters, a common energy ... And then a huge thank you for your investment, your confidence, your encouragement, to have believed in each of us, to have allowed us to go on stage after only 5 days of work, and, according to the echoes of our benevolent relatives, it work wonderfully!” Marie, physiotherapist
“I loved the exercises that you proposed with each time a way to go further, the tools of creation and reflection that you brought. The timing seemed to me tip-top too.” Solange
“It was a very interesting work for me. I was afraid to live hard things emotionally, but in fact not at all. It was joyful, playful, pleasant, soothing, even. I like the way you work. Rythmic and sustained but still relaxed. I liked that there is not too much blabla but above all the action, the "faire", to be able to observe others, to test, to check. Not to be too many but enough to have energy circulating.” Fanny, musician
“A thousand thanks for this unique experience that you allowed us to do. For me it was a golden opportunity to get back into the realm of performing arts and creating the way I love above all, that is, positively!” Celine, cinema programmer
