About the Courses
LISPA currently offers a two-year, full-time, post-graduate level course in Creating Theatre and Performance, which is composed of the Initation Course (first year) and the Advanced Course (second year). We also offer a one year Pedagogical Course. Each course is comprised of three ten-week terms, running from October to June, for a total of 30 weeks study annually. Training is composed of a minimum of 25 hours of scheduled classes and rehearsals each week.
The first term of the Initiation Course is considered probationary, at the end of which both the student and the school decide on how their collaboration will proceed. The quality of an individual student's work, as well as their ability to embrace the artistic and personal challenges throughout the length of the Initiation Course year, will determine whether or not the student will be invited to continue her or his studies on the Advanced Course year.
Please note - the Pedagogical Course is only open to students who have completed the two-year training in Creating Theatre and Performance and have been invited by the school to continue their studies. It is not possible to apply directly for this course.
Creating Theatre and Performance
This demanding two-year course is designed to train students to create and devise collaborative theatre and performance. During the first year (Initiation Course), students will explore the fundamental principles of all performing arts, seeking a more profound understanding of the dynamics of life through use of the performer's body. The school takes a highly physical approach to the observable rhythms in nature and urban life, as well as to the more hidden movements in painting, poetry, music and architecture. Students will work towards a physical and psychosomatic experience of the world they live in, and gain a deeper insight into human nature in both its collective and individual forms. The second year (Advanced Course) is designed to apply these principles and experiences to dramatic creation, performing and acting, allowing the students to make links between life and art, and to re-create the world on stage not only as it is, but as they imagine it to be.