In the framework of
Holstebro Kommune - Odin Teatret - IKC, Interkulturelt
Center
(WORKOUT FOR INTERCULTURAL NAVIGATORS - THEATRE AS
SOCIAL INTERFERENCE) 2012 programme
23 June - 23 July 2012
AGELESS GIANTS - CROSSING 2
A one month course and practical intervention led by
Deborah Hunt and The Jasonites (artists in residence at Odin
Teatret)
with the supervision of Julia Varley
Deborah Hunt will help participants build masks and
puppets of different sizes and then lead sessions to give
life to these particular objects and build dialogues and scenes
with them. The Jasonites will lead the participants in physical
training and composition, sessions of percussion and music, and
elements of actor's dramaturgy. Deborah Hunt and
The Jasonites will collaborate for the creation of performative
sequences which will then be presented in schools and old people's
homes in Holstebro and in front of 35.000 scouts gathered in
Holstebro. This is to complete the pedagogical experience with the
rigour demanded by the meeting with the spectator and the concrete
intervention in a community. Julia
Varley (Odin Teatret) is responsible for presentation
for the scouts. Examples of other experiences of theatre as
interference will be given by Kai Bredholt and Tage
Larsen. During the last week the participants will
receive food together with the Stilt Council group.
DEBORAH HUNT is a mask maker, puppeteer and performance artist
with over 30 years of experience in the creation and presentation
of original works. Working bilingually (English and Spanish),
Deborah teaches puppetry and mask performance and travels
internationally giving site specific workshops and performances.
She was born in New Zealand and is now based in Puerto Rico. She is
co-founder and artistic director of Toporojo, a theatre company
which worked in New Mexico from 1985 to 1988 and a member of the
well-known research theatre group Red Mole Enterprises in New
Zealand from 1976 to 1984. Then Deborah funded Maskhunt Motions, a
nomadic laboratory for experimental object theatre work. She is a
member of the Magdalena Project, an international network of women
in contemporary theatre and member of the North American Commission
of UNIMA. She has published La Maestria de Máscaras: Manual de
la Fabricación de Máscaras, Fabricando Títeres: Un
Manual.
THE JASONITES is an international theatre group with Giuseppe
Bonifati and Isadora Pei from Italy, Marcelo Miguel from
Brazil/Germany, and Alberto Martinez Guinaldo from Spain/Belgium.
In 2008 a group of performers from 23 different countries met at
Odin Teatret to take part in the performance The Marriage of
Medea directed by Eugenio Barba. The performance was the
celebration of the wedding between Jason and the foreign Medea,
separated by geographical and cultural differences. Jason's family
was interpreted by the multi-ethnical group of artists, some of
which continued the training experience started in Denmark taking
the message of celebration and feast to other cities, with actions
of exchange and barter, with the aim of sharing theatre as
intellectual stimulus and cultural promotion. The Jasonites have
realised intercultural theatre projects in Turin (Italy), San José
(Costa Rica), Freiburg (Germany); participated in Odin Teatret's
project Teater som interferens conducting workshops and
performances in schools, day-care centres and hospitals, and in the
performance Ur-Hamlet directed by Eugenio Barba; and
produced Passeportout (directed by Giuseppe Bonifati) and
Shakespills (directed by Julia Varley with Eugenio barba's
supervision)
JULIA VARLEY is an actress of Odin Teatret since 1976.
With Odin Teatret Julia Varley also works as a pedagogue in schools
and universities and has synthesised her experience in four work
demonstrations: The Echo of Silence, The Dead Brother,
The Flying Carpet and Text Action Relationships.
Since 1990 she takes part in the conception and organisation of
ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology) directed by
Eugenio Barba and from 1986 in the conception and organisation of
The Magdalena Project, a network of women in contemporary theatre.
She is artistic director of Transit International Festival and
Meeting, Holstebro, dedicated to themes of interest for women
working in theatre. Julia Varley has directed productions in
Germany, Argentina, Denmark, Italy and Chile and has written
various articles and essays published in many journals. She is
editor of The Open Page and author of the novel of a
character Wind in the West (Odin Teatret Forlag, Denmark)
and of the book Notes of an Odin Actress - Stones of Water
(Ubulibri, Milan; Escenologia, Mexico; Alarcos, Cuba; Entretemps,
France; Routledge, UK) about her work as an actress of Odin
Teatret.
Applications must reach Odin Teatret by 30
March 2012. The application form below must be addressed to odin@odinteatret.dk,
attention Nathalie Jabalé, and marked AGELESS GIANTS -
CROSSING 2.
FEE: 3.000 DKK (about 400 Euro) for the
workshop including spartan lodging in the Odin guesthouse, free
access to services (kitchen, laundry and internet), use of working
venues and stage equipment. To be paid by 30 April 2012
once you have received confirmation of selection. This
price includes the workshop fee, lodging, food for the last week of
the workshop, local transportation and material for mask making.
Participants will be requested to help with practical tasks inside
the theatre, including daily cleaning.
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