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Creative
Workshops
Organized in conjunction
with California’s Latino Academy
of Dramatic Arts and Folgueira’s
Itinerant Theatre, theatre workshops
are held over a 10-day period. People
from a variety of countries gather in
these workshops to share a working experience
conducted by distinguished theatre teachers
from Latin America.
FITLA 2008 International Creative Workshop
ANNOUNCEMENT
FITLA (the International Latino Theatre Festival of Los Angeles) will hold its seventh edition from October 30 through November 16, 2008. Traditionally, one of the main Festival components are the Creative Workshops. Actors, directors, choreographers, designers, and theatre students from various countries have participated in these workshops, pursuing their interest in sharing work experiences with distinguished professors of Latin American theatre.
This year’s Creative Workshop will be in the hands of renowned directors who will lead four master classes.
Actors, theatre students, cultural activists, and artists in general interested in participating in FITLA 2008’s creative workshop should e-mail fitla1@yahoo.com with the following information:
- Full Name
- Theatre group or organization’s Name (should you belong to one)
- Phone number and e-mail address
- Biographical Excerpt
Application is attached.
Fifteen participant slots are available. Workshop admission deadline will be September 30, 2008.
Aside from entry to the four master classes, participants will receive free admission to all Festival events presented at the 24th Street Theatre, and will be able to participate in all of FITLA’s pedagogical activities.
The Festival’s general programming is also attached.
International participants will receive discounts for room and board.
English translation will be available for any workshop participants who may need it.
Entry will be awarded on a “first come, first served” basis stemming from an application’s submission date. Accepted applicants will be notified before October 1.
The workshop costs $250. One non-refundable $100 payment is required in order to register, and it must be received before October 15. Checks should be sent to:
FITLA
P.O. Box 341804
Los Angeles, CA 90034
USA
The balance is due either by check or cash at the beginning of the first session, on November 3. Checks should be made out to FITLA.
The number of classes attended does not impact the price of the workshop.
Each workshop participant will be fully responsible for his or her own transportation to and from every workshop location.
At the end of the workshop, each participant will receive a diploma certifying his or her participation and signed by the professors of each master class.
Requirements: Participants should wear comfortable work clothing.
Following are details on each master class that makes up the workshop, as well as information on class leaders.
Theme: The Clown’s Technique: To Be or Not To Be
Professor: Aziz Gual, Director, Actor, Clown. México
Date: Monday, November 3
Time: 7:00 p.m. — 11:00 p.m.
Location: 24th Street Theatre
1117 West 24th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Description:
This lab will develop playful activities which can spark transgression, humor and non-verbal language, paths to physical energy for the stage, and other elements that move the human being and unveil our essential capacities; it’s a journey to the full enjoyment of our human existence, and explore our individual clown, creating the possibility for failure, but, above all else, creating a way for us to encounter our own vulnerability.
Theme: Physical Theatre
Professors: Jordi Cortés, Artistic Director, Alta Realitat. Spain
Damián Muñoz, Choreographer and Dancer. DM Danza. Spain
Date: Saturday, November 8
Time: 12:00 p.m. — 3:00 p.m.
Location: REDCAT Theatre
631 West 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Description:
The goal of this class is to enhance the individuality of each participant using the context of the group. The work will focus on the psychological, intellectual, and societal aspects of physical movement. The human body’s natural movements will be the starting point for developing scenic movement, exploring the physical language that comes from each individual. Investigating situations, moments, and scenes will produce a physical and emotional connection that will help us find a sense to all the movement, and to discover how to transmit it and share it.
Theme: Voice & Expression — Vocal Playfulness
Professor: Miguel Alonso Gutiérrez, Theatre Director. Mexico
Date: Monday, November 10
Time: 7:00 p.m. — 11:00 p.m.
Location: 24th Street Theatre
1117 West 24th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Description:
This class will be dedicated to exploring the creative potential of the voice, guiding participants to discover their expressive capacity based on the relationship between their body and their voice. This conscious understanding of one’s full vocal system can lead to an appreciation of the range of possibilities that can be embarked upon based on the vocal register. Each participant will discover new patterns in the use of their voice, departing from texts of invented language, songs, and games of lip-synching.
Theme: Actor Training and the Transition Toward Performance
Professor: Teresa Ralli, Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani. Perú
Date: Saturday, November 15
Time: 9:00 a.m. — 12:00 p.m.
Location: Teatro Apolo Rehearsal Room
Los Angeles, CA
Description:
This class will investigate two particular moments in the work of an actor: the preparation undertaken to be on stage, and the moment of performance. We will share with students the actor-creator theory that we currently develop within Yuyachkani and which makes up the essence of our work. We will establish a fundamental training based on the Center of Strength; Weight and Equilibrium; the difference between On-Stage and Off-Stage Energy; and the difference between Performing and Being. Working from an idea, an object, or personal history, participants will explore various ways to construct improvisations, becoming creators along the way.
Professors
Aziz Gual
Aziz Gual is considered by critics as one of the most outstanding clowns of Latin America. He is a graduate of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, and studied Lecoq’s pantomime technique. He was the disciple of the teacher and award-winning artist of the Russian Circus, Anatoli Locachtchouk. Gual also studied the technique of the circus and of the clown at the Ecole Du Cirque Space Catastrophe in Brussels, Belgium. Gual worked on the largest circus extravaganza in the world: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Mexico, the United States, and Canada. He has been showcased at prestigious festivals, including the Cervantino International Festival and the International Children’s Festival at Wolf Trap.
At FITLA 2008, Gual will present the clown spectacular, De risa en risa.
Jordi Cortés
Jordi Cortés was trained as a contemporary dancer at the Dance and Theatre Institute in Barcelona (1983-1987.) He has worked as a performer and choreographer in Spain, Great Britain, Holland, Slovenia, Portugal, and New Zealand, and has taken part in productions which have travelled all around Europe, America and Oceania. He is founding member of Lanónima Imperial and Heightened Reality London, both theatre companies. He also works for companies such as Iztok Kovack, Nigel Charnock, Wendy Houston and DV8 Physical Theatre, with whom he spent five seasons in London. He has participated in workshops with Theatre Complicite, Bunker, Jerwood Foundation, Theater Paneke, and Atalaya Teatro, among others, held in different countries like the US, Great Britain, Holland and Germany. His work as a teacher has been developed at schools and dance centers all over the world.
Jordi Cortés, in collaboration with Damián Muñoz, will present Ölelés as part of the FITLA 2008 programming.
Damián Muñoz
He is a renowned Spanish choreographer and dancer who in two occasions has won First Prize in Madrid’s Choreography Competition. With Ölelés, along with Jordi Cortés, he has won the Award for Best Dance Performance at the Feria de Huesca, and the Award Ciudad de Barcelona. He has been a visiting professor at New York’s Movement Research, Barcelona’s Theatre Institute, and the Universidad del País Vasco. He has also been visiting choreographer at The Theatre School of Amsterdam, and Le Groupe Dance — Centre for Developing New Language in Dance in Otowa and Toronto, Canada. He has worked on important Spanish stages such as the Fall Festival of Madrid and the National Dramatic Center (Olimpia Theatre), and has competed in international contests in various countries, including Brazil and France.
Miguel Alonso Gutiérrez.
Actor, producer, and director. He is a member of the group Sonvoces, and has, since 1999, taught vocal courses in different schools and institutions. He is widely experienced with vocal work, and is a certified voice professor through the Art Center Roy Hart, located in France. As director, he has participated in more than 30 opera productions as well as musicals and plays, both in Mexico City and several states in that country. Currently he directs the theatre company Entre Manos made up of deaf and hearing people. In June, 2008, he will teach a course titled Sign Language and Voice at Roy Hart.
He has shared his work experience with actors, singers, and dancers.
Teresa Ralli
Teresa is an actress, teacher, founder and member of Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani, established in 1971, and which currently enjoys a renowned trajectory in the world of independent Latin American and international theatre and is the recipient of numerous awards. She has participated in all of their performances, including the numerous national and international tours developed by this theatre group. She has also organized pedagogical events. She is a theatre professor specializing in the work of the body and the voice at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Lima, as well as a member of the academic team at EITALC, the International School of Theatre of Latin America and the Caribbean. She has led workshops in various countries, and is a resident artist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She has been editor of On the Stage of the Interior World, sharing her experiences with women from various Peruvian communities. A member of the International Advisor Group (I.A.G.) of the Magdalena Project (1993-1996),
Teresa presents her solo work Antigone at FITLA 2008.
As part of FITLA en la Frontera, professors Teresa Ralli and Jordi Cortés will lead workshops geared toward the students of the Bachelors Theatre Program of the School of Arts at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, and the Cuban theatre critic and investigator Vivian Martínez Tabares will lead a course on theatre criticism to specialists in this field.
In Los Angeles, the theatre group Yuyachkani will host the conference Group, Memory and Border, and present The Un-Staging of Antigone at two California universities. Workshop participants will be able to attend both events. (See FITLA 2008 general programming.)
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