For practitioners
ZAR sessions
Led by
Actors of Teatr ZAR
DATES:
February 2nd – 5th
March 2nd – 5th
March 23rd – 26th
April 13th – 16th
Wrocław, Poland
Location Studio Na Grobli
Working language: English/Polish
A series of four cycles of long weekend meetings, led by two or more of the performers/pedagogues of Teatr ZAR at a time. This formula allows us to delve deeper into the processes of different lines of creative work and experience how they resonate together.
ZAR SESSIONS
Our goal:
These sessions are aimed to offer the opportunity to local performers living close by, or in neighbouring countries, to take part in our work and attend all four cycles. However, this work is equally available to anyone willing to travel from further away who would like to take part in the sessions.
Due to the cyclical nature of the program, one can choose to sign up to particular sessions led by pedagogues along your line of research or take part in the full journey.
Example of the program for one cycle:
Thursday 16:00 – 20:30
Friday 16:00 – 20:30
Saturday 9:00 – 19:00
Sunday 9:00 – 19:00
Complete application form here
All the accepted participants will be asked for the advanced payment of 450 zl for full experience and 200 zl for solo-session.
Advanced payment is non-refundable.
Contact us by email at: zarworkshops@gmail.com
Participation fee
Early birds (till the end of December 2022):
Solo-session 600 zl
Whole journey 1800 zl
Full price:
Solo-session 700 zl
Whole journey 2100 zl
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STOWARZYSZENIE TEATR ZAR
Cycles of work:
February 2nd – 5th
Embodied creation
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.
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.
Applicants will be accepted on a first-come-first basis until the group for each workshop is full
March 2nd – 5th
led by Katya 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.Read more about Katya Egorova
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.
Applicants will be accepted on a first-come-first basis until the group for each workshop is full
March 23rd – 26th
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.
Tempo-Rhythm – Imagination – Improvisation – Etude
led by Davit Baroyan
The 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.
Applicants will be accepted on a first-come-first basis until the group for each workshop is full
April 13th – 16th
Movement&Voice
led by Aleksandra Kugacz-Semerci and Katya 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.
Dramaturgical Architecture as a Performer’s Craft
led by Davit Baroyan and Mertcan Semerci
This session is a further continuation of two sessions present in the cycle of work: “Embodied Creation” led by Mertcan Semerci, the initial session of our project and “Tempo-Rhythm – Imagination – Improvisation – Etude” led by Davit Baroyan . It aims towards making another step into creating strong theatrical individual material prepared by each of the participants, their personal etude. It includes the physical training tailored to awaken and trigger the imagination of the performer.
Taking part in this session is not only reserved for those who participated in the first one.
Applicants will be accepted on a first-come-first basis until the group for each workshop is full
We encourage you to sign up for the full experience of our work at a more affordable price by reserving your place in advance for all the meetings.
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