Theatre workshops and holiday courses
"Theatre practice is also a tool of discovery and personal training. Theatre is an individual art that is practiced in groups." Trebor YAMREG
Schedules, agenda, registration: workshops - courses
About theater workshops and holiday training
Since 1997, the University Theatre hosts theater workshops (sessions of two hours per week during the school year) and drama courses (5 days a week during school holidays in July and August , All Saints, Christmas, Carnival and Easter holidays).
These workshops and courses have registered to this day about 1000 students per year, grouped by age: 5-8 years, 8-12 years, 12-14 years, 14-17 years, students and adults of all ages. They are led by facilitators who have a university and/or artistic education.
To learn what?
The primary purpose of a theater workshop is to give everyone the means to express his sensitivity in a collective story. Individual creativity will be refined and enriched by the training to various theatrical techniques appropriate to different age groups.
- The approach of the playground : find one's place in the "theatre-space" and put life into it.
- The work on movement and the use of the body as a language.
- Rhythm and voice work ... and music.
- The creation of dramatic characters and situations.
- Said and unsaid, text and non-text
Keyword: drama abc, group dynamics, improvisation, creating characters and creating a story with presentation of the work at the end.
About our method
One can talk before reading and writing (even the little Chinese!).
One can play music before knowing music theory.
One can trod the boards before knowing what theater is, or even that it exists.
Yet, like language or music, the theater has its grammar, its rules that one must master one day if you want to get out of ordinary stuff : in the theater, everything is allowed ... except the "anything".
For me, the grammar of the theater is based on four key elements:
- the body (voice, look, movement)
- the mind (intellect and emotion, energy and generosity)
- the space (scenic and public)
- the text (text, subtext, non text, form and content).
These four components must be addressed in parallel, of course, but also together as a whole, solidly structured, called "show". This structure requires a grammatical work.
Work on the body and the mind to create a living person. Work on the text - if any - in both form and in meaning, for oneself and the others - players and spectators - in a space occupied wisely and effectively manned.
It was not easy to state the principle (the rule of grammar) above. It is even more difficult to implement it : this is what our courses and workshops are about.
It is the exercise that makes the master.
Robert Germay