Theatre Academy 2024
Blue Raincoat Theatre Academy will host a series of workshops and events throughout 2024.
The Academy provides multi-disciplinary training for all artists and performers.
Workshops this year include:
· Michael Keegan Dolan, Artistic Director of Teac Damsa
· Corporeal Mime Training with Corinne Soum, former assistant of Etienne Decroux and Co-founder of Theatre de L’Ange Fou
· Theatre du Soleil workshop with Company members Vincent Mangado & Dominique Jambert
· Voice Training with David Goldsworthy & Marianne Le Tron, senior tutors of the Roy Hart International Voice Centre
Michael Keegan-Dolan Workshop
*Fri 19th, Sat 20th & Sun 21st January 2024
Tutor: Michael Keegan-Dolan
Venue: The Factory Performance Space, Sligo, Ireland
Fee: €200
Time: 10.00 – 17.00
In this workshop, Director and Choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan will share ways of working, developed with dancers, actors and musicians over many years, that identify and celebrate practices that are useful for creative work in dance and in theatre. Through action and working together with elemental forces, energetic dynamics and the skilful application of the senses, we will play with story, rhythm, music and space to cultivate a lively and healthy group dynamic where creativity and imagination can flourish.
Please note: This workshop is designed for full-time or aspiring full-time performers in theatre, dance or music.
*(Friday is an Evening Introductory session: 7pm -9pm)
Theatre du Soleil Acting Workshop
Mon 19th – Fri 23rd February 2024
Tutors: Vincent Mangado & Dominique Jambert
Fee: €200
Venue : The Factory Performance Space, Sligo, Ireland
Time: 10.00 – 17.00
This workshop will be led by Vincent Mangado and Dominique Jambert, long established members of renowned theatre company Theatre du Soleil, founded by Ariane Mnouchkine in 1964 and based at La Cartoucherie, Paris, France.
From its inception, Theatre du Soleil have been characterized by a commitment to long-term collaborative rehearsal processes; the merging of a wide variety of art forms both Western and non-Western, including music, dance, and puppetry.
The structure of the workshop will be based on the way the company rehearse using the various devices and methodologies that have shaped and created the many productions of Theatre du Soleil.
The program will comprise of :
A physical training, based on play and dance movements, developed with the cooperation of the National Institute of Sport, Expertise, and Performance. The purpose is to warm-up the body and the imagination, both individual and collective.
Improvisations led by music. The purpose is to open ourselves, not to dance. To listen to the music, to our partners. We will explore different spaces, to feel their diverse needs and requirements.
Based on these improvisations, we will prepare more complex scenes with chosen text using props and costumes.
‘There is no theatre without poetry, legend, nor without stories for today... what kind of work can be performed with that intention? This is what has been explored for almost 60 years by Theatre du Soleil. We do not have an official answer!, only great anticipation of the possibility of exploring this with you, with our theatre’s tools : make-up, costumes, swords, horses, wings…childhood play! That’s the word.’
Vincent Mangado
Dominque Jambert
Corporeal Mime
Mon 4th - Fri 8th March 2024
Tutors: Corinne Soum
Venue : The Factory Performance Space, Sligo, Ireland
Time: 10.00 – 17.00
Fee: €200
This workshop involves training in the discipline of Corporeal Mime. Corinne Soum combines her experience as former assistant to Etienne Decroux and having taught, developed and directed Corporeal Mime for more than 30 years.
The training will include gestural grammar, body articulation, counterweights, walks and displacement in space, figures of style, mobile statuary, and musicality of movement. Extracts of the repertoire of Etienne Decroux will be taught during the workshop to fully experience this unique modern mythology of movement theatre. Participants will also explore the infinite possibilities of drawing from this repertoire to create personal work.
Voice
Sat 15th - Sun 16th June 2024
Tutors: David Goldsworthy & Marianne Le Tron
Fee: €150
Venue : The Factory Performance Space, Sligo, Ireland
Time: 10.00 – 17.00
Voice Training and Development are explored through the methodologies and techniques of the Roy Hart International Voice Centre, France. David Goldsworthy & Marianne Le Tron, senior teachers at the Centre, will conduct this 2-day workshop.
This workshop will introduce students to the techniques and exercises inherent in Roy Hart Vocal Training including diaphragmatic breathing, projection and breath control as well as focusing on the development of individual vocal range.
The pedagogic approach of Roy Hart Training begins with the premise that each individual voice is unique. There is no singular established method rather the training is a disciplined exploration guided by the teacher releasing sources of energy and imagination to open the voice, to realise its potential. Roy Hart teaching workshops have been developed based on a history of more than 80 years of research, study and practice of the human voice
For enquiries contact John Carty at academy@blueraincoat.com
Please note: we maintain a non-refund policy on all workshops.