POETICS OF THE BODY

CRA’P Workshops 2019

9-10, 23-24 February and 9-10 March from 9:30h to 14:30h

‘Poiesis’: the cause that converts anything we consider from non-being to being.

This workshop proposes to compose and articulate a practice that explores the creativity of the body confronted with the mask, which externally covers the interior life.

Different notions and criteria will be introduced to bring awareness on the potentialities that the body has in order to manifest itself in connection with the internal drives that go beyond the image that each one has of himself.

Through various supports, such as the traditional mask and other elements (costumes, voice, etc.), the workshop aims to explore the articulation of the body and its expression, in codifying the movement, rhythm, gaze, breath. Revealing and hiding at the same time how the materiality of the body might reveal another identity fed from within. In this transit the body is transformed, and the energy is materialized in different types of movements that encode the expression and formalize a technique.

In reference to the traditional mask, the mask is a true portrait, a portrait of the soul, a sample of what we can rarely see: an outer cover that reflects in a sensitive way the inner life. In this way, an essential paradox is established: the true expression of a mask is that of someone without a mask.
It could also be said that whoever is in a performing space, in a space of representation, is writing with his/her body. However, no type of content can be expressed without a form. It is a constant coming and going between what exists in the deepest interior, the most ignored, and its projection, its exteriorization towards the spectator.

This workshop is proposed as a laboratory in which to explore this interiorization and exteriorization to the fullest, to reveal through the mask in and of the body, the identity in the plurality of its forms and expressions.

Workshop aimed at Performing Arts practitioners.

 

 

 

 

 

Photo: Giancarlo Rovledo

Led by Toni Cots

Fee:
225€ (180€ CRA’P collaborators and associated members, members of the APDC, AADPC, and graduates from the Theatre Institute of Barcelona).
Discount registration before 20 January:
190€ (155€ CRA’P collaborators and associated members, members of the APDC, AADPC, and graduates from the Theatre Institute of Barcelona).

Registration: 
info@cra-p.org / 666 763 504

At CRA’P space

 

Toni Cots. Actor, dramaturge, director and professor of Performing Arts. Bachelor degree of interpretation at the Theatre Institute of Barcelona.

He studies contemporary dance in Barcelona, London and Oslo, and later explores other types of body disciplines in different countries of Asia: in India, the ‘Kalaripayattu’ (martial art); in Bali, the Pentjak Silat (martial art) and the Topeng with classical theatre masks; and in Japan the Nihon Buyo (Japanese classical dance).

Between 1975 and 1985 he is an actor and member of Odin Teatret, Denmark and I.S.T.A. (International School of Theatrical Anthropology), under the direction of Eugenio Barba.

As a maker, dramaturge and director, he starts in 1984 BASHO – Contemporary Performing Arts, a project of creation and production in the field of Performing Arts, with tours in Denmark, France, Italy, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Venezuela, Spain, etc.

Between 1997 and 2000 he started and directed ‘Borderland’ in Copenhagen, a project of creation and research with artists, and cultural and social agents from different artistic disciplines and countries of origin. The objective was to place exile and contemporary memory in public spaces of representation.

Between 2007 and 2010 co-funds and directs the Master in Contemporary Arts Practice & Dissemination (MACAPD) of 120 ECTS and 2 years of duration located at L’animal a l’esquena, Girona, in collaboration with the University of Girona and other academic and cultural institutions from Europe: Dartington College of Arts, UK and Maska, Slovenia. https://www.lanimal.org/index.php?page=search&lg=eng&search=MACAPD

Between 1997 and 2018 he is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Performance Research (Routledge).

Since 2011 he is co-founder and member of the collective CRA’P – Practices of creation and artistic research – which manages its own space of body based practices from contemporary performing arts projects in Mollet del Vallés (Barcelona).

From June 2007 and up to date, works with Esther Freixa in the creation and dramaturgy of Medea (a la carte), a performance creation with more than 130 presentations in private homes, galleries, festivals and workspaces in Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Lebanon, Italy and Germany. Also has been working with Esther Freixa i Ràfols, from 2013 onwards, 30 years – a poetic act of resistance, based on the writings and poetics of Ingeborg Bachmann, with presentations of the process and creation in Mexico, Italy and Spain.

His artistic work has been developed and / or presented in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Hungary, Slovenia, Bosnia, Croatia, Japan, Indonesia, India, Lebanon, Tunisia, Turkey, Egypt, among other countries.

 

Fotos: Alba Montañez

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