"OBJECT THEATER: THE PERFORMER FACING THE OBJECT, A TOOL FOR WRITING” - WORKSHOP WITH AGNES LIMBOS

"OBJECT THEATER: THE PERFORMER FACING THE OBJECT, A TOOL FOR WRITING” - WORKSHOP WITH AGNES LIMBOS

Monday Oct 7 – Thursday Oct 17, 2024

Place: Figurteatret i Nordland (aka. Nordland Visual Theatre), Stamsund, Norway

For: Suitable for all professionals: actors, musicians, dancers, puppeteers

Required: Professional experience in the performing arts and committed attendance for the full duration of the course.

Language: English

Max 10 participants

Workshop fee, travel expenses up to 600€ and housing in Stamsund covered by NVT.

Submission deadline: August 15, 2024.

Apply via produsent.fin@nfk.no

Application requirements:

Short motivational letter, maximum 150 words

CV

Selected applicants will be invited to the workshop. The selection will be made by NVTs artistic director together with Agnes Limbos

Object theater is a particular and unique form of theater where the object is manipulated visually and the actor is at the center of the space. The visual impact is immediate. These are “elements” which emerge from life as is without any transformation and which arrive on the scene by choice of the manipulator or by chance encounters. A theater without backstage, using metaphor, symbolism, suggestion, taking side roads. Object theater makes it possible to tell stories, to transcribe atmospheres, to quickly change places, dimensions, scales (rapid transition from large to small or from small to large), visions and points of view.

Course objectives:

* presence of the actor in the space:

* work on object manipulation: * decoding the poetic value of the object:

* work on the scenario:

* accuracy of intentions and the pleasure of playing.

Each participant has their own personality, their rhythm, their particular artistic desires, their way of approaching the material. However, one of the strong objectives is to try to develop the group as a body, a unit in itself where all its parts would be united with each other. It is essential that everyone works in trust and in a climate of respect and tolerance. They must feel free to evolve as they want, to make mistakes, to start again, to doubt, to experiment without the pressure of the group harming this research which will at times reveal its fragility, its difficulties as much as its talents.

* Construction in small groups:

Being able to put oneself at the service of a project that is not one's own by infusing it with one's ideas while respecting the basic idea proposed.

* The big shop

Everyone brings what will constitute our store in addition to the elements that I bring to provoke the imagination

Agnès Limbos was born in Huy, Belgium, in 1952, and spent part of her childhood in Africa. She studied Political Sciences and Philosophy, yet preferred the streets of the world to the University. Agnès trained at École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris from 1977 to 1979 and in Mexico from 1980 to 1982, before founding the company Gare Centrale in Brussels in 1984. Through the company's performances and collaborations, Agnès Limbos is committed to make quality popular theatre, creating living, entertaining, touching and convivial plays in search of an ever-evolving visual and body language. Her shows have been presented in many theatre festivals in more than 25 countries. She works as a writer, actor, director, teacher and she mentors young creators throughout their artistic process.

From 2002 to 2008, in partnership with the Théâtre de la Balsamine, she organized an international festival in Brussels, in the form of a biennial event.

Agnès Limbos develops a personal approach of the actress-creator. Through her shows and collaborations, she endeavours to practise a popular quality theater, fuelled with emotions, with the contradictory understanding of the universe (enchantment/reality, tragic/funny), the strength of the instinct and the search for a constantly evolving visual and body language. Between her journeys, training sessions and creations, she developed her own way to play object theatre and became an iconic figure of this art of details that boosts the imagination. Since a while, Agnès Limbos has had a passion for the power of the objects and the art of handling them. Objects are not considered as accessories but as the main elements of the play.