🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

The course will focus on the way physical theater can serve performers as a tool for perceiving and developing the idea of a digital body that can later be applied to a variety of ideas (wearables, motion capture, interactive performances, live animated shows). With the simplest, for the given field, application, i.e. the management of a digital puppet (digital puppetry, body driven animation), the students of the course will re-evaluate the concept of physical theatrical act in the digital world. How the subject's weight is translated into virtual space, how the immediacy of movement, timing, will, hesitation, the rendering of emotions. This course includes elements of mime, slapstick, acting with a mask as elements of physical theater.

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (1 hour)

1. Introduction to physical theatre and modern methods (Becket, Mnouchkine, Mimic, Lecoq)
2. Slaptstick, McLaren, Caplin, Serkis
3. Acting for Animation, bibliographic and filmographic references on acting in animation
4. 12 Principles of animation I
5. 12 Principles of animation II
6. Animating Human Dolls, an original method for using the human body in motion capture
7. Ventrimythia, an indicative review of art as a form of physical theater and puppetry
8. Puppetry and mask
9. The Masks in Lecoq's Physical Theater, Neutral, Fetal, Character I
10. The Masks in Lecoq's Physical Theater, Neutral, Fetal, Character II
11. Improvisations
12. Paper presentations I & discussion
13. Paper presentations II & discussion

🔵 🔴 🟡 Workshop (2 hours)

1. Quadrat I+II S. Beckett (1981) & A Chairy Tale N. McLaren (1957) The concept of rhythm.
2. Film (1965): A silent short starring Buster Keaton, written by Beckett and directed by Alan Schneider
3. Animals. Observation and imitation
4. Anticipation, a basic principle of nature
5. Timing, a second basic principle of nature
6. Disney's principles in the human body
7. Basic ventricular techniques
8. Using the mask as a doll, mask training principle.
9. Contact with the neutral mask.
10. Contact with the character mask.
11. Improvisations
12. Improvisations
13. Presentation of projects

Review language: Greek

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

• 70% written exam
• 30% creative digital composition exercise

• Use slides
• Use of audiovisual examples
• Studio theater action
• Use of e-class

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🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Textbooks [Eudoxus]

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Extra Bibliography

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