🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Description

Through an indicative review of key points of the global physical theater of the 20th century, by Arianne Mnuchkine, Jacques Lecoq, Samuel Beckett, Pina Bausch, a mapping of a part of what is understood as physical theater will be made. On the other hand, the practical part of the teachings will focus on training the performers in the method of acting with a mask starting in the laboratory from the neutral mask, the elements of nature, rhythmology, basic motor principles (walking, standing, sitting, gesture, running, pushing, falling, getting up), and continuing on to the character masks as well as an introduction to the elements of nature. The training of the performers in this physically demanding laboratory course is going to benefit the people who participate mainly in relation to the presence on stage (either physical or digital), the awareness of physical capabilities and expressive range, useful tools for their individual creations.

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (1 hour)

1. Introduction to the physical theater of the 20th century: Arianne Mnuchkine, Pina Bausch
2. Introduction to the physical theater of the 20th century: Jacques Lecoq, Samuel Beckett
3. The mask, ritual – representation
4. The neutral mask – the Totems
5. The Character Mask
6. The fetal mask
7. The clown's nose
8. The non-human body in physical theater
9. El Empleo (2008). The symbolic human body in animation
10. Mask exercise program
11. The Mask (1994), acting case study
12. Peeping Tom Dance Cie, Le Salon (2004)
13. Kazuo Ohno, My Mother (1998) Butoh Performance

🔵 🔴 🟡 Workshop (2 hours)

1. Body in space, posture, pose
2. Body in space, gait.
3. Introduction to the neutral mask
4. Movement with the neutral body
5. Elements of nature
6. Energy levels in action, speed
7. Introduction to the Character Mask
8. From neutral body to character body
9. The birth of speech in the body of the mask
10. Methodology for practicing in the neutral mask I
11. Neutral Mask Practice Methodology II
12. Character Mask Practice Methodology I
13. Character Mask Practice Methodology II

Review language: Greek

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

• 30% - score of the unique individual semester paper
• 70% - overall assessment of attendance during lectures

• 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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