THEATRE SUMMER CAMP 2024
HELLENIC THEATRE/DRAMA & EDUCATION NETWORK (TENet-Gr)
MAIN WORKSHOP 23-26/8/2024
"The Story Our Bodies Tell: Exploring Dance-Theatre"
Sanja Krsmanović Tasić
Language: English
(more on the Summer Camp 2024 here)
The workshop, "The Story Our Bodies Tell: Exploring Dance-Theatre," will focus on developing different techniques and ways the bodies of the performers can move and create valuable material that can be montaged into performance.
Taking inspiration from the idea that everyone can be a dancer and the words of Alvin Ailey, "Dance is for everybody. I believe dance comes from the people and should be returned to the people," the workshop will develop the individual "voices" of each participant's movement. These movements will be developed into a mutual polyphonic song, creating group and ensemble work and choreographies.
We will be creating the dramaturgy of dance and movement, aiming towards the creation of a meaningful performance of Tanztheater. Participants will also learn to transform actions into dance and dance into scenes that can be used and adapted for theatre performances.
This technique can be used in the classroom or when working with children, youth, seniors, and people of all ages, as well as in professional work in theatre and choreography.
The warm-up exercises, based on decades of physical work in theatre and dance by the workshop leader, will be beneficial for all, leading to routines that enhance the well-being and physical and mental health of the participants. The workshop is based on movement and physicality but respects the abilities of each individual participant.
Comfortable clothes that allow movement should be worn, with soft shoes or the option to work in socks.
The workshop leader is currently one of the dancers in the European Creative Europe “Dance on Pass On Dream On” project for professional senior dancers and choreographers.
Η Sanja Krsmanović Tasić: Drama/theatre education expert, theatre director, actress, choreographer, with extensive experience in creating, producing and curating programs in performance art and art education. Recognized for creating work that intersects activism and art, addressing critical political and social issues. A strong advocate for using art and art education as a tool for transformation and healing. President of the International Drama/Theatre and Education Association-IDEA, one of four members of the Executive Forum of the World Alliance for Arts Education. Since 2024, President of the Centre for Drama in Education and Art-CEDEUM. Artistic director, director and founder of Hleb Teatar, independent theatre group from Belgrade, Serbia, and Association Artistic Utopia for the development of projects in performing art. Author of an innovative methodology of art and art education as „ecology of the soul“. Author of a theatre form called „essay in movement“. As an internationally acclaimed expert, she conducts workshops and master classes blending her experience from dance and laboratory theatre into an original approach and methodology of devising applicable for work with children, youth, seniors, as well as professionals. Keynote speaker and presenter. Author of essays, dance reviews and articles on performing arts, and drama/theatre education. Graduated at the Philological Faculty, University of Belgrade, Department of Spanish language and literature (four-year education) and at the Faculty for Physical Education, University of Novi Sad, MA studies (two years), at the group for Modern and Jazz Dance, as dance teacher and choreographer. As a performance artist she was formed by masters of contemporary theatre and dance through Master classes and workshops, or ongoing collaborations lasting decades: Torgeir Wethal (Odin Teatret, Denmark), Yoshi Oida (Peter Brook, Japan/France), Genadi Bogdanov (Meyerhold`s Biomehanics, Russia), Rena Mirecka and Zigmunt Molik (Grotowski, Poland), Carolyn Carson (USA) , Steven Iannacone (USA), Augusto Boal (Brazil), Shiro Daimond (France/Japan), Deborah Hunt (mask work), Smiljana Mandukić (Serbia), Mira Sanjina (Serbia) and many others.
Organised by the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network (TENet-Gr)
Info. info@theatroedu.gr / 2106541600