SKUTR WORKSHOP

SKUTR WORKSHOP
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„THE POINT ZERO”
The performer and his possibilities of the interpretation
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Skutr is a name for directors.. tandem that create authorial cross – over projects. They associate group of performers, which are specialized in developing different actor’s techniques. The combination of these techniques create peculiar form of a theatre expression.
Skutr and their performers.. group develop mostly author..s theatre that doesn’t feel dramatic text as a superior stage component. Vice versa they try to search specific actor’s language to express the central theme, the situation, and the story.
The possibilities of actor’s expression often narrow to the work with text, while working on an inscenation. The actor’s body and the space for performing, stays forgotten. That’s why we offer a look into the system of the theatre work, that try provocate the actor to search new unusual means of expression in the work on character and situation.
This view of theatre composition has got its roots in the director’s thinking of Josef Krofta, who partly continues in the work of Alfred Radok and especially in the theatre work of E. F. Burian. This is also inspired by Frank van de Ven „Body weather“ technique and by the „View points“ group improvisation techniques created by Anne Bogard.
Workshop „The point zero“ is lead by the SKUTR director’s tandem and their co-workers. In the beginning of the workshop the performer is placed into the point zero. He is starting to search the theme. After this he build his actor’s character, that he puts it into the situation. He should replace his usual actor’s expression by searching the new unusual one. Especially, like the work with the metaphor of the space, the physical movement, the sound or the matter. By using the improvisation he is learning how to combine special stage elements to express the theme or the dramatic situation in the best way. Using this, he could find a new space of actor’s expression.
The „The point zero“ workshop is not just the system of exercises. Above all it offers the space for searching and developing own actor’s abilities. This way of work expects the physical activity and open mind to accept the new artistic waves.
The workshop is prepared for actors/performers, directors and dramaturges, who would like to develop their own physical abilities on one side and the thinking about theatre on another side. Both professionals and amateurs can take part.
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The AREA OF THE WORKSHOP:
1. The principles of the author..s theatre
- searching the theme
- creating actor’s character
- searching original situations to express the theme and character
2. The specific theatre thinking that combine different stage elements to express the theme
- Individual and group improvisations
- The actor and his work with a metaphor of the space, the physical movement, the sound and the matter
3. The way of thinking that doesn’t see the theatre just as a work on performance but also as a social event.
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CO-WORKERS:
Adéla Lastovková Stodolová
Developing the contact and movement techniques in the reaction to the theme, the space and the situation
Rosta Novák
Actor’s acrobatic and techniques of the physical theatre
Josef Rosen
Exercises and techniques that help developing actor’s improvisations.
Dora Bouzková
The work with the puppet and with the metaphor of the matter.
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Zuzana Stavná
Her work is inspired by the „Body weather“ actor’s improvisation technique by Frank van de Ven
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SKUTR
Martin Kukucka & Lukás Trpisovský graduated in 2004 in Stage Direction and Dramaturgy from the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre at Prague’s DAMU (Prague Academy of Performing Arts), where they studied under Prof. Josef Krofta and Prof. Miloslav Klíma. They are currently continuing with postgraduate study. Their projects are best described as multi-genre or crossover. SKUTR have already been awarded a string of prizes – the Evald Schorm Prize, Josef Hlávka prize, the Grand Prix at the international festival ZLOMVAZ in 2004 and the Grand Prix and the Audience Prize at the 2007 FIST International Festival in Belgrade. They have been nominated in three consecutive years for the Alfréd Radok Prize, in the category ‘Talent of the year”. They have collaborated with Archa Theatre on the long term project Archa.lab, as part of which they have created the author..s productions Nickname (2004), A child in her mind (2005), Understand (2005), 8 – Birds Black, Tits Great and The weepers (2007). They also work with other leading Czech theatres – The National Theatre in Prague (Heroes, 2006), Theatre on the Balustrade (Velvet, 2005), Divadlo Petra Bezruce (Should I stay or should I go, 2007) - and with Czech Radio. They have collaborated with the theatre academies V--MU in Bratislava, PWST in Wroclaw and DAMU in Prague to prepare several international projects - MacBeth (2003), Masakra (2003), Paradise of the Heart, Labyrinth of the World (2006). For the festival of new cirque Letní letná they prepared an open-air project Master and pupil (2007). Their work has been presented at many festivals all over Europe and, in addition to their directing work, they have led workshops in Prague, Wroclaw, Bratislava, Belgrade, Mostar, Pustevny, Banská Bystrica.
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