Workshops in Mask, and more...
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The creators of Familie Floez have been teaching for many years at numerous European theater academies and universities. The company's collaborative and self-devised form of working has forged a very unique style of theatre over the years, which is centered around four major ideas: the performer as creator, the ensemble as amalgam of creative forces, the mask as a form and the clown as its comedic spirit. The foundation of each performer's readiness to work is an extraordinary alertness of mind, a trained and ready body, and of course ones limitless imagination. We believe theater is most gripping, entertaining and moving if actor and spectator are in a close and constant rapport with each other. Art can only propose an unfinished, alterable, speculative or even provocative "slice of the world." It is up to our imaginations to fill in the meanings of how the rest might fit together. This is the magic of Theater as dialog. It invites the audience to be part of the discovering of a world which is just being found. Here the mask is both an archaic and viable comtempory form for creating such dialog. Although stricktly defined, the sculpured mask suddenly becomes a maliable structure, formed as it were, from moment to moment by our imagination about what is happening emotionally behind it. It is not surprising then, that this basic form finds its roots in theater traditions of many different cultures, which continue to be handed down from generation to generation. ABO-Newsletter "Floez Seminars" |
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