HETSR / "The gesture through repetition and physical exhaustion" 

Campus Wahlmodul / Master Class / Kursangebot der Partnerschule (HETSR)

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Nummer und TypMTH-MTH-WPM-02.20F.015 / Moduldurchführung
ModulMaster-Campus-Theater-CH 02 ECTS 
VeranstalterDepartement Darstellende Künste und Film
LeitungAlessandro Sciarroni
OrtLa Manufacture, Lausanne / Salle 70
Anzahl Teilnehmende5 - 11
ECTS2 Credits
ZielgruppenAll
Inhalte“My interest in repetition is anthropological in nature…I would say biological. As child I would spend hours staring at the movement of ants on my balcony: they would walk in a straight line and they would all move towards the same direction. I would ask myself “how do they do it?” “Why do they act this way and how do they know to walk in the same direction?” Today I have the same feeling when I happen to watch a group of people performing a practice based on a skill, on a virtuosity that is foreign to me (such as a folk dance, juggling, certain types of sports….). When I witness these actions, the farther these are from me, the more I discover in them something that speaks to me… I identify with some of the details. (…) There was a moment during the 1970s connected to the phenomenon of the Body Art (of which I am a great fan), followed by a second wave in the 1990s, during which it was important to perform the artist’s discomfort in regards to the contemporary. These actions – often very extreme, aggressive, at times painful – sometimes wanted to hit the spectator, wake him up. Today we are living different times with different needs. I feel I want to encourage the spectator to leave his house and I want to think that the theatre, the location of the performance is a space of encounter. One of the characteristics of the performers I work with is the interest in the pursuit of pleasure. Repetition, the effort, even if at first it may seem absurd, needs to be accompanied by a desire to last in time, by a desire to take care of the practice. In my works, you can often see the performers smiling on stage and it’s not a theatrical smile, or a choreographed one, it’s a way of collecting energy and moving forward. The body under stress in my case creates an empathy with the spectator, a proximity, an accessibility, rendering the virtuosity at the same time vulnerable and pleasant.”
TermineDu 17 au 21 février 2020
Dauer11h-13h & 14h-17h
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SpracheEnglisch
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