 International Festival
THEATRE METHODS 05
Between Tradition and Contemporaneity
July 11-17, 2005
Malpils, Latvia
A word of welcome from the Artistic Director
Sergey Ostrenko
"Dear Friends! Welcome to the International Festival THEATRE METHODS 05 Between Tradition & Contemporaneity! We believe that Tradition is the Bridge to the Authenticity in the Art of Life and the Art on the Stage. The word "tradition" comes from the Latin 'traditio', meaning "a handing down". Whenever somebody learns something from someone, tradition occurs. The object of our meeting is to share theatre experience, exchange with methods of professional work and creative tools. In the framework of the festival we have been directing our efforts towards the investigation of how traditional forms of performance can mould contemporary performing arts and how the tradition heritage can contribute to the development of contemporary methodology of performing arts. Tradition is what allows the interconnection of efforts of the contemporary and people belonging to different generations, spontaneous collaboration and mutual understanding of people who have never met and will never meet each other. We can apply to this precious source in our search for creative inspiration and perfection which had been once achieved by our predecessors. Even a genius does not come to the empty place; he relies on the shoulders of the previous generations and their achievements. Even if this bridge is ruined one has the choice – to tumble down or learn to fly…"
July 11th, 2005 Malpils, Latvia
THEATRE METHODS 05
Performing arts have the ancient history with extremely rich and various traditions of different cultures of the world. The heritage of traditional forms is a precious and inexhaustible source of inspiration for the young generations. Recently creative works have been developed under the influence of the traditional cultures.
The search of the connection between tradition and contemporaneity helps to enrich and variegate the contemporary performing arts giving non-trivial decisions in forms, powerful energy and interesting ways of work on the stage. Today's artists show great interest to the traditions and apply themselves to the origins.
THEATRE METHODS Between Tradition and Contemporaneity
is the annual professional festival-fair bringing up the question of the bridge between tradition and contemporaneity in performing arts. It is aimed at the unification of artists from different countries of the world interested in the research of theatre methods between tradition and contemporaneity.
THE OBJECT of the festival is to make the contribution to the upbringing of tolerance in the society by the acquaintance of the spectator with the variety of world traditions in theatre art.
THE MAIN TASK of the festival is to demonstrate various theatre methods, to share and exchange with experience in professional theatre education and methods of rehearsal process.
Sergey Ostrenko, the Artistic Director of the festival
PROGRAMME: workshops, work demonstrations, video, lectures, readings, concerts, performances, discussion clubs and press conferences.
Participants of the festival can attend numerous events of the programme. Moreover the festival offers the participants the opportunity to demonstrate their methods of creative work. This can be a workshop, a master class, a lecture, a video, a work demonstration, a performance (not requiring any special conditions) or any other way of demonstration to the presenter’s discretion.
If the presenters would like to show a performance or a fragment this should be the result of the method. The participants of the festival become the main spectators of the creative demonstrations.
PARTICIPANTS
actors
directors
dancers
choreographers
teachers of theatre methods
playwrights
theatre critics and journalists
cultural managers
senior students of theatre departments
The festival invites the bearers of the authentic traditions in performing arts and the representatives of various directions in contemporary stage work from all over the world.
FESTIVAL TASKS:
• to promote the diverse traditional teachings in performing arts to the contemporary performing arts in the world;
• to attract the bearers of the genuine traditions in performing arts from different regions of the world: dancers, actors, singers, writers and storytellers, etc.;
• to demonstrate various traditional and contemporary methods in performing arts;
• to develop regular international dialogues on the subject of the interrelation between traditions and contemporaneity;
• to search for interconnection, interpenetration and mutual influence of the traditional forms of performance and contemporary performing arts in the world;
• to open discussions about the methodology using traditional forms as the contribution into the development of the contemporary performing arts;
• to encourage professionals who have been using traditional forms in contemporary professional theatre education and rehearsal process in exchanging with experience;
• to assemble the festival archives as the result of the international meetings and practical investigation of performing arts between tradition and contemporaneity.
This international meeting is the excellent opportunity to establish new contacts, to take part in the group creative process, to share ideas and to get acquainted with the methods presented by colleagues from different countries.
Important information for participants
Festival Schedule
WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS
- Director's Laboratory (Russian Tradition):
"Director Since Reading the Play till Meeting the Actors".
Workshop “Improvisation & Spontaneity in Performing Arts".
Sergey Ostrenko - director, choreographer, teacher,
artistic director of IUGTE (Latvia).
- Lecture "Theatricality in Non-Theatrical Music".
Victor Copytsko - composer, musicologist, conductor, director, member of IUGTE (Belarus).
- Workshop presentation "Anatomy of An Action"
Sheldon Deckelbaum - director, teacher, playwright (USA).
- Presentation of the paper "Soul Murder and the Tragic Art";
the monologue of Agave from the Bacchae.
Andonia Cakouros - actress, choreographer, director, writer, teacher (USA).
- Workshop presentation "Exercises from Commedia dell’Arte for Developing Contemporary Characters",
"Centering Exercises for Actors and Dancers".
Judith Chaffee - teacher, choreographer, performer (USA).
- Workshop and demonstration "CDCE - Improvisation Method" "CDCE – work demonstration".
Nelia Pinheiro, Rafael Laitao - Évora Contemporary Dance Company (Portugal).
- Workshop presentation:
"Moving in and out of Clothes"; "Light in Hand".
Karen Krolak - choreographer, costume designer;
Jason Ries - director, designer (USA).
- Workshop presentation "Applying accents of movement in contemporary theatre with the methods of early 20th century cabaret performance".
Bence Vagi - dancer, choreographer (Hungary).
- Creating Work from found text.
A movement workshop: How to bring text to life.
Stacey Cervellino - actor, singer, writer, and director (USA).
- Lecture-work demonstration “Family Theatre as an Art Form”. Penny Day, Rob Wellington, Jim Lewis, Anne-Louise McWilliam – Purple Turtle Theatre Group (Hong Kong).
- Dynamic Breathing Training.
Inga Ryazanoff - psychologist, chief executive of IUGTE (Latvia).
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