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International Summer Theatre Workshops

Izola, 23rd to 29th of August 2010

Summer theatre workshops represent a unique opportunity to gain and extend basic theatre knowledge. Internationally recognized mentors from Slovenia and abroad pass on their knowledge and, even more, their priceless experiences to the participants. Participants of these workshops thus have an opportunity to form their own independent theatre personality through work and discussion.

Programme of Workshops

I. MUSICAL, music theatre (D. Žvipelj, I. Razpotnik, J. Lajovic, M. Saje, Slovenia)

First we will get to know the basics of the theory on musical execution, various genres and subgenres, the complex compositions of musicals etc. and later on we will focus on individual elements or parts of a musical which are needed to create the whole work (singing, dancing, costumes, scene, directing, music accompaniment, etc.). The main focus of this workshop will be set on performing the musical itself and certain individual scenes from world famous musicals (Grease, Phantom of the opera, Chicago, etc.). Throughout these workshops the special emphasis will be set on practical execution of various forms of individual scenes (e.g. a solo scene, transfer or presentation of the story through complex dialogues, group scenes, choreographies, etc.) and in addition we will carry out or present various mood scenes and the variety of roles or situations.

This workshop will take place at the same time as the Brass Orchestra Workshop, which will be in charge of the instrumental part of the musical. In the final part of this workshop, the participants will find out how to work hand in hand with the brass orchestra (group work). The final product will be a short musical (or. certain scenes from musicals) with live musical accompaniment.

Everybody enjoying in singing, dancing and acting, those interested in musicals and everybody who would like to investigate this most complex stage form and actually test themselves in world famous musicals’ roles, are invited to join us and be a part of this workshop.

Damjan Žvipelj is an engineer of multimedia production. Among other things, he is also a musician with more than 20 years of experience. His musical knowledge is a result of more than 15 years of musical education with the trumpet, solo singing and other instruments. He is an author and a co-author of several musicals and/or their elements. He regularly works with other music groups and has spent several years writing lyrics, music and arrangements.

Igor Razpotnik, Jr. is a pianist and a composer. As a music author he works in theatre as well as in music production. As a musician – pianist – he plays in a Sarajevo band “Teška industrija”, he cooperates with several Slovene and Croatian musicians for whom he composes music. His songs have participated at several Slovene festivals (MMS, Festival Nova Scena, etc.), and his authorial music was played in eight evening performances.

Jure Lajovic, an actor and a director, a universal musician, a sound technician and a light designer. He has taken part in numerous theatre, radio and music productions by shaping various roles. As an actor, he has created some roles in various Slovenian theatres (SNG Drama Ljubljana, Lutkovno gledališča Ljubljana, Zavod Bunker, etc.)

Miro Saje, a conductor of the Krka Brass Orchestra and a president of the expert board of the Slovenian Brass Orchestra Association. Miro Saje has graduated in 1991 at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, studying the trumpet. He studied conducting at the Brabants Conservatorium in Tilburgu, Netherlands under the auspices of famous Jan Cober and graduated in 1999. During the last few years, Miro Saje was a visiting conductor of many brass orchestras, like The Slovenian Police Orchestra, The Slovenian Clarinet Orchestra, and the Rundfunk Blasorchestra from Leipzig. At three competitions FLICORNO D’ORO Riva Del Garda Italy, he received the best conductor prize three times in a row.

II. BIOGRAPHY THEATRE Theatralize your life! (Katharina Börke, Germany)

Biography theatre discovers the materials for its stories in the lives of its creators. Through interviews, story-telling and creative writing, each participant will present a life-story of another participant. This will then serve as a draft for the coming theatre show. We will search for suitable scenes in each story and dramatize them throughout the workshop. We will also be in search of appropriate “tools” and ways of staging. The chosen events from participants’ lives will be exposed to exaggeration or elimination, until we reach the point of absurd. By means of various theatre methods and genres, we will play with them and form them into a show, which will speak about us, but will most likely be totally different from its “original” due to the fact that we will afford to use quite a large amount of artistic freedom.
The main goal of this workshop is to learn how to observe ourselves, others and our lives, how to use them as materials for our theatre shows and how to build a drama figure by means of thorough observation of a concrete person, his/her characteristics and specialities.
This workshop is recommended for actors, as well as producers and writers.
Be a dream or a night mare of other participants, their mother or a math teacher. You can be anybody. And anybody can be YOU!

Katharina Böhrke, the actress and a theatre pedagogue has graduated from theatre pedagogy at the University of Lingen. During and after her studies, she worked with various theatres and groups. She momentarily works at the Institute for Theatre Pedagogy in Lingen, Germany, as a coordinator of European projects, throughout which she investigates socially-cultural components of the work in theatre. She also runs a youth theatre in Duisburg and is a mentor to many infant and youth theatre groups.

III. THE BIRTH OF A CHARACTER– Forming a Stage Character (Maša Židanik, Slovenia)

This workshop will lead us towards a special adventure called forming a character. So where do we start? How do we read a text? How do we find important information about the character we act in the test? What does the character tell about itself and what others say about the character? And how do we then, when we are equipped with all these knowledge and information, use our inner, empirical world, our voice, our body, the costume, the mask, in order to build a convincing and an honest image of a person from all these different elements – a stage character.
By the help of improvisations, we will warm our bodies and imagination and then start working on staging the drama text. Due to the fact that our workshop will take place during the summer holidays, we will work on a comedy in order to avoid frustrations and sadness. We shall investigate the characteristics, characters and individual particularities, adopt them and use them to form convincing stage characters. We will place them in situations, investigate relationships and the mixture of everything will at the end be put on stage. Enjoy your meal.

Maša Židanik has graduated at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and TV in the class of professors Dušan Jovanovič and Štefka Drolc. After the Academy she returned to Maribor, where she has been a member of the entire cast of Drama SNG Maribor. In various Slovenian theatres (Drama SNG Maribor, Mestno gledališče Ljubljansko, Gledališče Ptuj, SNG Drama Ljubljana) she formed over forty theatre roles. She is active as a mentor of many theatre workshops. Besides working in a theatre, she momentarily helps with creating a humoristic serial Lepo je biti sosed (It is Great to Be a Neighbour).

IV. ACTORS' STUDIO (Snježana Martinović, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

This workshop will be divided into two parts due to their contents. In its first part – the scene movement – we will focus on movement and sound awareness and combination of the two through group and individual exercises such as rhythmical exercises, concentration trainings, relaxation methods and developing imagination. In the second part of this workshop – acting – we will use the knowledge of “physicality” and “sonority” of our bodies in improvised scenes. These scenes will then be analysed and finalised. One of the focuses will also be set on monologues; internal as well as external (the field of character, psychological gesture, character colouring). This workshop will take the ways of two basic theatre systems of two drama giants: Konstantin Stanislavski and Michael Chekhov.

Snježana Martinović is a graduate of Academy for Stage Arts in Sarajevo. She is an Assistant Professor for Drama Acting at Alternative Academy in Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina). As an actress she has participated in more than 50 performances and films around the world, a few of them being Otvorena sceno »Obala« by Theatre Sarajevo, National Theatre Mostar, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Telo Tanz Studio Stuttgart, Theater Premol Grenoble, Dance Theatre Ljubljana, Theatre Koper, etc.

V. ACTING FOR CAMERA AND CREATING AN FEATURE MOVIE (Gorazd Žilavec, Aleš Nadai, Slovenia)

This workshop will deal with the mysterious world of movies and movie acting in an understandable, popular, funny and interesting way. Its content will be very useful for those, who are interested in movie or TV acting, as well as for those, who rather find their place behind the camera – for producers, screenwriters and camera operators.

Our participants will get to know the entire process of creating an acted movie: from the initial idea, synopsis, to scenario, directorial book and shooting script, up to shooting itself, editing the film and the final product. Actors will especially work on differences between the theatre and movie acting. We will meet some acting techniques, useful for keeping control over ourselves and our role in a – at a first sight – very chaotic process of taking a movie. We will meet the process of acting in front of the camera from its very beginning – audition (Casting Announcement), through text analysis, rehearsals with director, up to the shooting itself and its sequences. Through practical work our participants will meet the shooting plans, setting cadres and how those influence the way of acting and the actors control over himself / herself.

Final products of this workshop will be short feature movies, taken according to your ideals. Along with those, who see their role behind the camera (mentor: Aleš Nadai), we are also inviting those, who would like to get to know the work in front of it. Teaching how to act in front of the camera will be taken over by Gorazd Žilavec, who has extremely rich experiences in these matters (over 150 pieces of taken TV and movie creations).

Aleš Nadai, director and a screenwriter, studied at a famous movie school in Prague FAMU (where also great Forman, Menzel and Kusturica graduated). Along with various acted shows and documentaries, he currently works as a stage director and an episode screenwriter of a popular TV serial Lepo je biti sosed (It is nice to be a neighbour). He is also an author of a popular European documentary Cityfolk, where he has been working for two years as a director and a screenwriter for Slovenia. Some years ago, his work was very well accepted in the Slovenian show TLP, for which he was preparing an acted humorous broadcast Panic. He also writes for the theatre and other artistic events of all kinds and genre.

Gorazd Žilavec, an actor, graduated from drama acting at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and TV in Ljubljana and is a member of Theatre Koper and the Theatre Ana Monro. Along with classical theatre, he is also very active on the field of street and impro theatre. Lately he has been focused on TV, as he acts one of the major characters (Beno) in the popular TV serial Lepo je biti sosed (It si nice to be a neighbor). He has already created quite a spectre of movie characters (Varuh meje, Novi svet, Traktor ljubezen in rock'n'roll, Distorzija, etc.).

VI. PANTOMIME AND THE STAGE MOVEMENT – Workshop of Nonverbal Theatre (Michal Hecht, Czech Republic)

The main goal of this workshop is to make the body of an actor one of his basic instruments of expression of which he is totally aware. Participants will meet various principles and methods of speaking the body language. They will meet the basics of classical and modern pantomime, expressive movement, acrobatics and stage fighting. Through investigating the nonverbal theatre, we will produce a story, develop characters and create a theatre performance.

The workshop will be held in English language.

Michal Hecht, director, actor, pantomimic, choreographer and animator; studied pantomime and acrobatics at the academy JAMU in Brno. He continued with his educational process by attending various seminars and workshops of nonverbal theatre in Czech Republic, Denmark and in Germany. As a choreographer he regularly visits all bigger theatres. As a screenwriter and an animator, he cooperates with Czech and Finish TV. He prepares and executes seminars and workshops of nonverbal theatre in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Finland, Netherlands, Italy and USA. He is a founder of a private school for nonverbal theatre »Mimchal'School«.

The fee for an individual workshop:

Registration and payment until 16th of May 2010: 120,00 EUR (VAT included)
Registration and payment until 16th of June 2010: 130,00 EUR (VAT included)
Registration and payment until 16th of July 2010: 140,00 EUR (VAT included)

Information and workshops entry: JSKD, Štefanova 5, 1000 Ljubljana; Tel. 01 2410 511 or 2410 523; Fax: 01 2410 510, e-mail: franci.cotman@jskd.si; Contact persons: Franci Cotman and Matjaž Šmalc.

International Summer Theatre Workshops on the Internet: http://www.jskd.si/

Registration Date: Friday, 16th of July 2010

Fee payment

Payments are accepted until the end of the registration date:
- in cash, at the headquarters of JSKD in Ljubljana, Štefanova 5, every business day from 9.00 to 14.00 (Franci Cotman);
- for participants outside Ljubljana: after we receive the registration form we will send you a receipt (and a money order form), which must be paid before the start of the workshops.

Explanations and recommendations

All workshops are taking place in a small, beautiful coastal town of Izola – check www.izola.eu.

Don't know how to get to Izola? Don't hesitate to contact us: matjaz.smalc@jskd.si!

The fee already paid will only be returned on the basis of a medical certificate.

If the funding provider is an institution, it has to confirm your application form with a signature and a stamp.

We would like to warn you that with a sooner payment you ensure your place at the workshops.

The individual workshop will take place if there are at least (10) participants.

The fee must be paid before the start of the workshops or else the participation is not possible.

The organiser reserves the right to change the programme and division of participants to groups if all the places at an individual mentor are taken.

Accommodation is left to participants. We recommend SGTŠ Izola – youth hostel, Ulica Prekomorskih brigad 7, where full board in a two-bedroom costs 25 EUR. Information and reservations: 00386 5 66 21 740 or 00386 41 639 216.
Kamp Belvedere - information: www.belvedere.si, telephone: 00386 5 66 05 100.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Javni sklad RS za kulturne dejavnosti
Štefanova 5, 1000 Ljubljana

Matjaž Šmalc,
head of theatre and puppet theatre department
Tel: (+386 1) 24 10 511
Fax: (+386 1) 2410 510
E- mail: matjaz.smalc@jskd.si

Franci Cotman,
advisor for multimedia activities
Tel: (+386 1) 2410 523
Fax: (+386 1) 2410 510
E-mail: franci.cotman@jskd.si

Some reminiscences from the previous workshop are in the photogallery.

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