For practitioners
ZAR intense ’22
Led by
Actors of Teatr ZAR
10 days intensive work for theater professionals
9th – 19th of August 2022
Wrocław, Poland
Location Studio Na Grobli
Working language: English
A unique opportunity to delve into the creative practices of Teatr ZAR’s theatrical work
ZAR INTENSE
ZAR INTENSE is an initiative born out of the need to share our unique artistic language and values and the questions that accompany our creative work. It is a profound, poetic and human approach that aims to encourage the actor to create in a very interdisciplinary manner, weaving together physical and vocal practices, live solo and polyphonic singing with physical improvisations, training the listening, a deep physical and vocal concentration, and the courage to stand alone and with others in conveying messages that are important and need to be heard by the world around us.
Participation fee 800 €
Early birds (till the end of May) 680 €
The fee includes:
- Participation in all lines of practice for the full duration of ZAR Intense
- Participation in lectures, discussions and presentations
- A common meal at lunch time
Example of the daily programme:
9:00 – 9:30 common warm up
9:30 – 13:00 work in 1 or 2 groups (physical / vocal lines of practice)
13:00 – 15:00 lunch break
15:00 – 17:30 vocal / physical lines of practice
17:30 – 18:00 break
18:00 – 19:00 polyphonic singing / closing day practise
19:00 – 20:30 discussions / presentations / lectures
Complete application form here
All accepted participants will be asked for the advance payment of 200€
Contact us by email at: workshops@teatrzar.pl
WHAT WE SHARE?
Training and development
The work will be focused on introducing and delving into various lines of practice proposed and developed by actors of Teatr ZAR. These lines of practice will include disciplines that interweave between each other creating a network of vocal, physical, textual, breath and concentration work.
Such sessions will include
- Polyphonic singing that encourages collaboration and team-work in listening, supporting and taking the reins
- Working with sound carrying an image and adapting it to stage language
- Daily practise of healthy vocal and breathing techniques
- Performer physical training- building stamina and understanding one’s own strengths in order to use them in building a heightened physical stage presence
- Tuning the body awareness. Physical training which in its essence becomes mental training
- Widening our primal inborn sense of perception into one that can be receptive to subtleties in our daily lives
- Improvisation within tight and precise technical frameworks
- Partner training including simple acrobatic elements to develop coordination, trust and collaboration
- Devising stage material
Lectures, discussions and presentations
- Meeting with the sources (meeting dedicated to expeditions and reconnaissance made by Theater Zar while gathering music material )
- Process of creation – a space to discuss the process of creation accompanying performances of Teatr ZAR (meeting with whole company)
Lines of practice and leaders
Each day will consist of several lines of practice represented by active members of Teatr ZAR.
Tuning the Body Awareness
led by Kamila Klamut
For me, developing mindfulness of the body means, on the one hand, a challenge that might lead to the opening and broadening of the actor’s/person’s perception in her animal, biological core and, on the other, the development of the skill of looking into our inner self which is deeply connected with presence.
How to develop actor’s physical training to turn it into mental training?
How to expand the spectrum of the actor’s presence?
The work is based on elements of partner training and on individual actions. The common denominator is an attempt to build an internal line of actor’s dramaturgy, clearly discernible from the outside, but immersed in an organic process.
led by Davit BaroyanThe workshop is dedicated to everyone who is interested in work with the body and imagination.
The training is aimed at first in warming up and activating the body, then gradually the receptors of sight, attention, balance, concentration of individual and group focus.Once the group is properly prepared and tuned, we will start to activate the imagination which once combined with the prepared body will lead us to an elementary work of improvisation.
led by Aleksandra Kugacz-Semerci and Mertcan Semerci
When can our actions be defined as a stage material? How to expose the authenticity through simple movements?As performers we have to define the space with our movement/action. In the work sessions we will learn how to approach a movement in order to create a material.The workshop focuses on developing and opening the possibilities that our bodies carry within, strengthening our bodies in various physical exercises and working with different qualities as those elements that carry the meaning.We believe that every type of a human body is already charged with certain interesting movement possibilities and qualities but we also know that our thinking and expressive bodies while being challenged and exposed to unknown situations can reveal a completely new and original channel of communication. We would like to propose a path to prepare individual condensed structure/etudes created by each participant based on the training sessions and inspired by material referring to the general theme of the workshop and consisting of both physical and text material.
Read more about Aleksandra Kugacz-SemerciRead more about Mertcan Semerci
led by Ekaterina EgorovaGentle movement practices to observe yourself, to have safe space for exploration without judging, without trying to change. Simple practices that will help return the focus of attention inward.A training aimed to develop body awareness through the practice of liberation and improvisation.An attempt to strengthen body-mind connections.In English, when we talk about the performance of an actor on stage, we say acting, but it seems to me that it would be more accurate to say reacting – we always REACT to something. Exploring our natural reactions – those that appear in the body even before the awareness of the mind.
In contrast to what is usually given in acting schools, I would like to give space and start an exploration towards self-observation, but not self-control.
Voice tale. Speaking song
led by Ditte Berkeley
The work I will lead will focus on developing the presence of the performer in acting through Song.
What I mean by ‘acting through song’ is taking action, expressing something that becomes alive through the ‘act’ of singing. This is a slightly different approach than that of singing techniques. It involves imagination, clear intentions, questions and an aim for which the song should come to life. This could be seen as the process of an actor bringing his/her character to life, but through the voice.
Mounding it, forming it, directing it in a particular direction, giving it color. This is a sensual and imaginative process that allows no space for passive singing focused on it’s aesthetics. It is physically and mentally demanding and requires us to remain present.
We are performers and we use song to communicate important aspects of our lives and the world around us.
Movement&Voice
led by Aleksandra Kugacz-Semerci and Ekaterina Egorova
Training dedicated to rebuild a connection between body and voice, to embody our voice. We were taught that our voice is something separated from our body that it’s not part of us. How can we bring back our voices and what will happen if we actually do so? How can we use the voice and breath as a tool to come back to ourselves?
During the training we will explore our voice as a part of our body, we will try to let go of unnecessary control. Why is it important for everyone to work with the body and voice? Modern life, especially post-COVID, with the transition of life to an online format, increasingly disconnects us from our own physicality. Disconnecting from our own body, we, among other things, lose contact with others.
In the Voice of Other
led by Alessandro Curti
The workshop is based on the polyphonic singing traditions belonging to the Mediterranean basin (Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily). They are all a form of singing that through centuries have been oral transmitted, and deeply linked to the landscapes, cultures and societies they come from.
The process of oral transmission is unique and precious, it’s a meeting in action, it relies on trust, attentiveness and will of sharing something that is not only about voice, that goes beyond the song itself, it’s the will of “sound together”. The participants will be led in the challenge of exposing their voice and master few fragments of those traditions, that are going to be the platform of our practice.
Through those beautiful sounds and harmonies, we will base our training in order to experience together the meaning of putting ourselves to service of our colleagues, to make our own voice sound in the voice of the other.
StageSoundScape
led by Orest Sharak
The sessions of common understanding how to create stage ambient. Discover how to build sound design for a stage creation using all possibilities of our sounding body and musical skills.
Trying to visualise your sound imagination and use it as a stage language. Imagine, you are watching a performance through your ears with closed eyes and You perceive each sound as a dramaturgy context. Step, breath, sound vibration become not accidentally and unconsciously but as a sonic texture of stage soundscape.
Contact us by email at: workshops@teatrzar.pl
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