Duration : 1h30
Public : All audiences
Language : French and English
By Claire Heggen and/or Yves Marc
Theatricality of Mouvement
Les arteils du marionnettiste (en)
By Claire Heggen
*This conference raises the question of the notion of articulation, between the living body of the actor puppeteer animating the inert body of his puppet. Claire Heggen will share the questions that have arisen for her in the development of a corporal practice, in the direction of puppeteers among others. She will dismantle and show, using excerpts from the show and technical demonstrations, what could constitute a grammar of the relationship, induced by the stage presence of the puppeteer actor alongside her puppet.
The neutral mask on the surface of skin / Claire Heggen
Conference – show by Claire Heggen
This conference testifies to the diversified use of the mask in the company of the Theatre of the Movement, since the neutral mask to the puppet, between built–in mask and delegated mask, exact interface between body of mimes body and puppet.
The vertus of the ideal puppet
Conference – demonstration by Claire Heggen
But what is essential at the bottom to know if Craig decides for the puppet or the human body? If the puppet is at least the image of the ideal actor, it is thus necessary to try to acquire the virtues of the ideal puppet. However, one can acquire them only as a practitioner an adequate gymnastics with the discounted function and that leads us to mimes known as body. Etienne Decroux, Words on mimes. Continue reading
Musicality of movement
By Claire Heggen and/or Yves Marc
This conference mainly deals with the relationship between movement and time (speed, rhythm, duration), with its dynamics (resistance, force and what Decroux called ‘the comedy of the muscle’) and with the theatrical effect thus obtained. Continue reading