WORKSHOP

Human Behaviour and Relationships in a Real Space

A workshop to practice and investigate improvisation from impulses and listening to the body and to invent scenes with its “texts”: Movement, gesture, posture, look, spatial composition, tone, energy, actions, physical and emotional impulses, breathing and body state. We will count on real space as a point of support and inspiration to create and compose dramatically interesting images. A space in which we can move, appear and disappear, have real physical support, play with distances and different heights, and where the characters can move organically and play the bonds and impulses that connect them. The relationship with play and dramaturgical construction will be based on improvisa-tions in which we see human behaviour. To do this, we will train the relationship with the other: Acting for the other, for our scene partner. To provoke transformations in the other actor and his character and for the other to modify me. Seek complicity with others to find the honesty of the game. Space and our choices on stage will mix with chance to build the overall story that the audience will be more aware of than we are, and we will practice taking off the pres-sure of wanting to build everything.

SITE SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE

Neighbors

We will discover the life of a square in the city and its imagined inhabitants. We will at-tend some of their dates, their farewells or meetings, some everyday moments that could be banal but build their daily life and beings or other moments that could change the course of their lives. The public will go to see them in this square, whose real balconies, doors and windows will be the dynamic stage of this improvised show in which some casual crossings write the story.

BIO

Actress, director, and theater educator. She works with Spanish and French theater companies across various disciplines. She is one of the pioneers of improvisational theater in Spain, where she began over 25 years ago. Currently, she collaborates with the company “Crache-Texte” in France and has recently founded her own company, Materia Viva, within the cooperative La Spontanée. She is a coach for the Trophée National d’Impro Culture & Diversité in France. She has directed three improvisation shows for the companies “Loin et c’est très bien,” “Compagnie Intranquille,” and “Cúbico” in Spain. She graduated from the Jacques Lecoq International Theater School in Paris and has trained at other international theater schools, such as Théâtre du Mouvement and Ecole Philippe Gaulier, also in Paris.