physical theatre and nonverbal dramaturgy

Professional workshop
Directed by Marco Cupellari and Sara Bocchini

The body is deepness, space that welcomes, hosts and reveals. The aim of physical training is to discover and release the connections between its parts, refining perception and approaching a state of transparent and accurate presence. Through the exploration of the contact with the ground, the centres of gravity, weight, impulses and partner work, we will enter into a playful dialogue with the body and the space.

Body and voice, their many expressive possibilities in relation to a space constantly to be defined and a time to be dominated, will be the tools to translate ideas into theatrical actions that are both concrete and symbolic. Dramatizing movement means to create a composition that has meaning and tension, that is comprehensible and able to communicate with the audience on a physical, emotional and intellectual level.

• Physical training
• Improvisation
• Physical score and interpretation
• The mask and the character 
• Dramatizing movement
• Creation and composition
• Staging

Participants will be leaded through a program that will include physical training, improvisation, interpretation and creation. Starting from pre-existing material or a new idea, the end of the journey for each participant will be the creation of an original theatrical short performance.

The Words of the Body

Professional physical theatre workshop
Directed by Sara Bocchini and Marco Cupellari

Awareness. How does the body work? Starting from a mechanical/anatomical level, we will arrive at a more refined level of perceived sensations; imagination gets activated and associations follow, producing or influencing movement and expression. How do I perceive the space and other bodies around me? The encounter with the partner is the great opportunity to venture into unexplored territories.
Simplicity. What is necessary and what superfluous? We train ourselves to constantly choose, removing what is not needed. A permanent challenge not to be seduced by frills, to go deeper, going beyond that moment when you believe that you already understood.
Freedom. Freedom starts with the discovery of our potential. Confidence and lightness do the rest, allowing us to experiment new reactions to solicitations coming from the space and the partners.

• Physical training
• Proprioception and perception
• Qualities of movement
• Partnerwork
• Improvisation
• Creation and composition
• Discovering the mask 

A journey to discover and investigate the movement, starting from the awareness of the body and its expressive potential. We will explore the opportunity to deeply connect with what is “here and now”. We will approach a state of transparent and exact presence, capable of creating a space of vision where movement, thought, images and sensations coexist with no hierarchical order. Last, we will make the movement composition interact with the masks created by the company for the new production.