International
Physical Theatre Laboratory

under the direction of Sergey Ostrenko

March 23-28, 2008
Malpils, Latvia

The Lab is open for performers from different countries and backgrounds inspired by Physical Theater as a bold, vibrant and multidimensional approach to contemporary theater performance.

The Lab programme includes intensive practical training, lectures and discussion club. The Lab is putting particular emphasis on practical exploration of methods and techniques of group theatre training as the foundation for coherent rehearsal process, open creative atmosphere and efficient performance making. Practical sessions develop in the form of various exercises and progress from simple to complicated. Gradually the group is proceeding to group improvisations and structures. Every day is setting advanced creative tasks, developing the preceding steps and deepening into the detailed consecutive process.

The Lab is an opportunity to discover new ideas and impulses for future creative work, to make new contacts with colleagues from different part of the world and the variety of Physical Theatre.

PARTICIPANTS
 

Adam Noble (USA) 
Ainars Karklins (Latvia)
Aleksandra Rosiak (Ireland)
Francisco Esquivel (Mexico)
Kene Igweonu (UK)
Larisa Janina (Latvia)
Lluvia Barrera Rivas (Mexico)
Maria Stergiou (Greece)
Martin David (USA)
Noelle O' Regan (Ireland)
Petra Costigan-Oorthuijs (Ireland)
Sarah Dodd (UK)
Yvonne Coughlan (Ireland)

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