Integral Theatre Pedagogy
Advanced Course - second year
This course takes the principles discovered during the Initiation Course and applies them to dramatic creation and the development of the human Self in different social, community and educational contexts. It combines the exploration of different dramatic territories and their contemporary re-creation with the theoretical and practical know-how of initiating, structuring and guiding a process of artistic and personal individuation for groups and individuals.
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- + Applied techniques
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- Applied movement analysis
- Applied Feldenkrais and Alexander work
- Applied voice work
- Acrobatics and martial arts
- + Dramatic territories
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- Storytelling
- Epic drama and melodrama
- Commedia and human comedy
- The Grotesque and the Fantastical
- The tragic chorus
- The clown in circus and theatre
- The Burlesque, the Absurd and the Eccentric
- Cabaret
- + Pedagogical territories
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- Archetypes and the creative process
- Masks and Individuation
- Storytelling and identity
- Playfulness and Self development
- Intuition, imagination and creativity
- Group dynamics and gestalt awareness
- Neuroscience and improvisational theatre
- Creative methods for different psycho-social and educational contexts
- Creating theatre with children, adolescents and adults
- + Personal creative process
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The students will deepen their own personal and pedagogical individuation process in regular sessions with a tutor, structured in one-to-one encounters or small groups. Additionally, there are weekly group sessions with their fellow pedagogical students, which they structure themselves.
- + Residencies
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Students will attend multiple residencies over the length of the course to allow for an intensive environment of practical and theoretical pedagogical studies.
- + Creation
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Advanced course students deepen their experience of creating theatre by spending longer periods of time investigating specific themes. Students work in fixed companies for two or more weeks at a time. Ongoing results continue to be presented every week to the teachers. At the end of each term the students present their work in an in-house presentation.
- + Public Presentation
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At the beginning of the last term the students have a week of public presentations to share the best of their collaborative creations with an audience.
- + Final project
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At the end of the year the students work over a longer period of time on an individual research project, applying their artistic and pedagogical knowledge to the social/educational context of their choice, and documenting their experience in a final written report.
- + Certificate
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At the end of the two-year course students will obtain a certificate of successful completion of their studies in Integral Theatre Pedagogy at LISPA.