#object theatre

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We continue to float in the vast waters of the world. Next place to find Island Home will be wonderful Kavc festival organised by Floating Castle team in Ljublana 2nd and 3rd February. Looking forward!

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Heute mal ein Veranstaltungstipp für Alle am Bodensee. Am 1. März 2018 könnt ihr im Theater Konstanz zwei interdisziplinäre Stücke erleben. Meine Schulfreundin Jolanda Löllmann mit “A voice of our common madness” und Charlie Denat mit “La main dans le sac”. Ich bin leider selbst an dem Tag nicht in der Gegend, habe aber die beiden Stücke schon einmal in Berlin gesehen und kann sie euch daher aus eigener Erfahrung ans Herz legen.

Auf der Webseite des Theater Konstanz findet ihr weitere Infos und könnt Tickets kaufen.

In einer Mischung aus zeitgenössischem Tanz, Akrobatik, Physical Theater und dem "Object Theatre" wird das Publikum auf eine Reise durch eine imaginäre Welt eingeladen. Alltagsobjekte wie eine Plastiktüte sowie in Kleidungsstücke implizierte Identitäten werden lebendig und treten mit den Performern in einen fragenden, phantasievollen bis ironischen Dialog bei dem die Grenzen zwischen Realität und Illusion verschwimmen.

Hier könnt ihr euch die beiden Trailer ansehen:

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16: Object theatre in Black Beauty.

Welcome to day 16 of our #festivecountdown! Shoes, handbags and scarves are all used to bring the legendary Black Beauty to life during our festive show. 

To hear more about the process of devising Black Beauty and our use of object theatre, watch this video.

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Teatro de Objetos, Rafael Sol solo

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October 15th – 17th

This week, we had a visiting actor/playwright/director named Megan Campeesi come in and run workshops with us pertaining to object theatre and how to appropriately use stimulus to influence your movements throughout a piece. Miss Campeesi studied at the LeCoq School in Paris, where they studied based on the theatre and direction methods of Sir Jacques LeCoq, one of which we worked on for a majority of the time she was with us. We looked at object theatre, where you use objects throughout a piece to represent different things. In small groups of four, we put on small devised pieces about man’s first steps on the moon. My group used a scarf, a tin can, and a ball to signify different things: the scarf became the rocket’s smoke, a seatbelt, the galaxy, and a backdrop for a news report; the tin can was a rocket, a seatbelt fastening, and the handle of a microphone; the ball was the sun, the moon, the earth, and finally the main section of a microphone. I had a lot of fun helping my group find interesting ways to use the objects in new & creative ways so that they weren’t being type-casted as what they may actually be used for.

We also did an exercise where we watching sugar cubes & the way they dissolved in a glass of water, before using it as stimulus to create movements that one might use when trying to portray the pain & grief that come with the death of a loved one. I found it really interesting, because everyone had such different interpretations of how it looked to them, and how they created their movements could represent different emotions depending on what kind of scene it was being used in. 

This week’s theatre sessions were a lot of fun, & I’ve never really been to theatre workshops, since I’ve never really even been a theatre student. I think LeCoq’s methods are really interesting, & they allow for really diverse bodies of work while still holding significance in the world of theatre.