Puppetry and Storytelling – Workshop 8th February – 9th March 2024 LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE! |
Puppetry and Storytelling : The Craft of Embodied Listening
08 February – 09 March 2024
SOLD OUT – WAITING LIST ONLY
Monday-Saturday / 15.00-20.30 ( including daily devising time )
In this 4-and-a-half-week workshop for advanced practitioners with extensive experience in devising, we explore the radical act of embodied listening and embodied storytelling through puppetry.
In a moment where we might desperately need different kinds of stories, coming from different points of view, we will lean into a playful investigation and dialogue with materials, objects and puppets – to find how they might want to move, to breathe and what stories they might want to tell through us.
We will research into archetypal images from myths and fairytales, into ways of storytelling with puppet and puppeteer that are both verbal and non-verbal. We will cultivate and deepen your technical puppetry skills, through Qi Gong and other physical practices: activating, tuning, strengthening and sensitizing the puppeteer’s body and being for the work of embodied puppetry. We will challenge your dramaturgical and collaborative skills in a lab-based research process, as we search for ways to tell these emerging stories together.
The workshop will consist of approximately three weeks’ intensive teaching and one week of rehearsal and devising/feedback sessions and will culminate in a sharing of the material we have been exploring.
Workshop Facilitators
Cat Gerrard (she/her; GB/DE) is a storyteller, dramaturg, puppeteer and facilitator from the UK, based in Berlin. She trained in acting at Drama Studio London and later in collaborative performance-making at LISPA (now Arthaus Berlin). Cat’s work is multi-disciplinary and always created in an intuitive, collaborative, devised process. At the heart of Cat’s work is story – from the personal to the mythic, the individual to the collective. She circles around how we embody story, how we can develop a metaphorical kind of thinking, experiencing and transmission of artistic work. As a puppeteer, Cat is most proud of being one of the core creators/devisors and puppeteers for Theatre Témoin’s show The Fantasist, which sold out the Edinburgh Fringe two years in a row and toured extensively around the UK and Ireland. As a dramaturg – primarily in theatre and dance – and facilitator, Cat’s work seeks to integrate the various elements of a process: to include the dynamics and interplay between the personal, interpersonal and transpersonal elements that are in each creative process. Cat mentors, curates and teaches various workshops (both online and off) and is a regular teacher at Arthaus Berlin and Cours Florent, Berlin. www.catgerrard.com
Lionel Menard
Lionel worked for 10 years with the Company Marcel Marceau before joining Philipp Genty’s Company.
As a director and choreographer he has worked beyond others with Philipp Glass at the Carnegie Hall, Michael Jackson and Marcel Marceau at HBO, Claude Lelouch, Jean Paul Goude and Lea Seydoux. at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Luxembourg Philharmonic, the Warsaw mime centrum, the Valencia Festival in Venezuela and the Sydney Festival.
Fees and application
Tuition Fees
980,00 Euro
Where
Eden***** Studios, Breite Str. 43, 13187 BERLIN
Application
Please contact the school for details of how to apply :
Puppetry and Storytelling : The Craft of Embodied Listening
Workshop Details
08 February – 09 March 2024
SOLD OUT – WAITING LIST ONLY
Monday-Saturday / 15.00-20.30 ( including daily devising time )
In this 4-and-a-half-week workshop for advanced practitioners with extensive experience in devising, we explore the radical act of embodied listening and embodied storytelling through puppetry.
In a moment where we might desperately need different kinds of stories, coming from different points of view, we will lean into a playful investigation and dialogue with materials, objects and puppets – to find how they might want to move, to breathe and what stories they might want to tell through us.
We will research into archetypal images from myths and fairytales, into ways of storytelling with puppet and puppeteer that are both verbal and non-verbal. We will cultivate and deepen your technical puppetry skills, through Qi Gong and other physical practices: activating, tuning, strengthening and sensitizing the puppeteer’s body and being for the work of embodied puppetry. We will challenge your dramaturgical and collaborative skills in a lab-based research process, as we search for ways to tell these emerging stories together.
The workshop will consist of approximately three weeks’ intensive teaching and one week of rehearsal and devising/feedback sessions and will culminate in a sharing of the material we have been exploring.
Workshop Facilitators
Cat Gerrard (she/her; GB/DE) is a storyteller, dramaturg, puppeteer and facilitator from the UK, based in Berlin. She trained in acting at Drama Studio London and later in collaborative performance-making at LISPA (now Arthaus Berlin). Cat’s work is multi-disciplinary and always created in an intuitive, collaborative, devised process. At the heart of Cat’s work is story – from the personal to the mythic, the individual to the collective. She circles around how we embody story, how we can develop a metaphorical kind of thinking, experiencing and transmission of artistic work. As a puppeteer, Cat is most proud of being one of the core creators/devisors and puppeteers for Theatre Témoin’s show The Fantasist, which sold out the Edinburgh Fringe two years in a row and toured extensively around the UK and Ireland. As a dramaturg – primarily in theatre and dance – and facilitator, Cat’s work seeks to integrate the various elements of a process: to include the dynamics and interplay between the personal, interpersonal and transpersonal elements that are in each creative process. Cat mentors, curates and teaches various workshops (both online and off) and is a regular teacher at Arthaus Berlin and Cours Florent, Berlin. www.catgerrard.com
Lionel Menard
Lionel worked for 10 years with the Company Marcel Marceau before joining Philipp Genty’s Company.
As a director and choreographer he has worked beyond others with Philipp Glass at the Carnegie Hall, Michael Jackson and Marcel Marceau at HBO, Claude Lelouch, Jean Paul Goude and Lea Seydoux. at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Luxembourg Philharmonic, the Warsaw mime centrum, the Valencia Festival in Venezuela and the Sydney Festival.
Fees and Application
Tuition Fees
980,00 Euro
Where
Eden***** Studios, Breite Str. 43, 13187 BERLIN
Application
Please contact the school for details of how to apply :