Campus Week 2022
Organized this year by Accademia Dimitri in Sommascona, Val di Blenio
The Theme this week will be “Sustainability”
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Programme of the Campus Week in Sommascona, Val di Blenio
WORKSHOP 1 – ANNA GROMANOVA
Learning Objectives
Workshop participants will work on stage physicality of an actor/actress in the connection with rhythm, selected texts, intonations and songs. The goal of the course is the creation of physical and vocal actions, individual and collective scores, reactions on partner, space or text in addition to staying authentic and present.
Content of the course
By getting to know various approaches and exercises, participants will search for original, individual and collective self-presentation using body and voice actions in space. If we can work outside we will connect our work also to the nature and the four elements. Participants will be introduced to the basic forms of montage and to various ways of transforming the collected material or personal experiences to a theatrical language. Application possibility of this approach in both classical and physical theatre will be demonstrated. Participants will work on the common group flow, mutual connections and on emphasizing the synchronization and precision of movement depending on how the outer and inner rhythm tectonics change. We will dedicate time to the body and voice grounding and to the individual body part movements and intentions which are able to create expression and meaning. The focus on the relationship between the inner structure and the outer composition will lead to the final individual and collective scores in the space, the body in the nature, the nature in the body.
WORKSHOP 2 – LIV KRISTIN HOLMBERG
A workshop about art, ritual and utopia.
This workshop springs from Liv Kristin Holmberg’s artistic research project Kunstliturgien – The Art Liturgy. The Art Liturgy can be described as a ritualistic theatre based on utopian philosophy, in which are developed self-made liturgical elements aiming at life’s existential questions and transitions; creating a fundament for a metaphysical theatre of the real.
The purpose of this workshop is to study and research together the possibilities and limitations of ritual as an art form to foster individual and collective transformation, in hope of reaching a more sustainable life. Through sensibility, corporality, imagination, utopian philosophy, affect and theology, we will explore and research our own spirituality and longings.
The rituals may connect our lives to a larger story and to each other. Rituals can restore the connection between the present and the past.
With the Christian Liturgy as starting point, we will use these ritual structures as a dramaturgical skeleton for our performances.
It is about, in a utopian way, telling a “new” story within an already existing ritual structure.
WORKSHOP 3 – RICCARDO ARENA
Keywords
Visual and spatial thinking, embodied knowledge, expanded choreography, gestures visualization, mental and conceptual maps, creative processes, experimental notations, philosophy of images, art of diagram.
Concept, goals, and methodology
Through study programs, group work, open and individual discussions, the participants are introduced to the conceptual and aesthetic properties of diagrams and mental maps, exploring their applicative potential. The choreography of the diagram composes, transforms, and reassembles an architecture of mental space through the oscillation between rigorous procedures and abandonment of the method, between paths of rational connection and gestures of intuitive analogy.
The work process is structured to create a framework of investigation and experimentation in order to stimulate the participants to:
- explore and shape their inner space and mental concepts through visual and spatial thinking.
- inspire the working groups through relational comparison, team building, and the sharing of physical and mental space
- reflect and contemplate the spatial body gestures involved in the act of thinking, drawing and tracing connections in the space
- translate these gestures into a new space configuration which could be used as an installation score of an experimental choreography
By urging an interdisciplinary approach to visual culture, the workshops intend to further stimulate a deeper vision of creative labour to make people comprehend how their work can be understood as a vehicle for discovery, knowledge and contemplation; a means that, even before being expressive and communicative, should be intended at nurturing the author during the personal cognitive journey.
What is it?
Established within the framework of the Master Campus Theatre Switzerland, the Master of Arts in Theatre at the Accademia Teatro Dimitri (ATD) degree programme is a joint venture with three other universities offering theatre degrees in Switzerland, Hochschule der Künste Bern (HKB), La Manufacture Lausanne, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHDK).
The ATD’s partnership with the HKB, La Manufacture Lausanne, and the ZHDK provides access to a wide range of additional external courses, both practical and theoretical. Depending on their personal artistic interests and aims, students have the possibility to individualize the curriculum by integrating learning experience and creative collaboration with students from the other theatre schools in the Master Campus Theatre Switzerland.
Theme week: Collective exploration of a special theme over the course of a week for all MA theatre students in Switzerland (Master Campus Theatre Switzerland).
A second theme week takes place at the ATD for all its BA and MA students.
