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Panamerican Routes offers four dynamic workshops with a rare opportunity to learn skills and techniques from some of the most brilliant theatre makers from around the globe.
Space is limited – please register ASAP by contacting Aluna Theatre
416-203-2535 or workshops@alunatheatre.ca
Workshop Discounts
120% off when registering for two workshops
225% off when registering for three or more workshop
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dance puppet theatre with federico restrepo
Colombia + New York
English + Spanish
This five-day highly physical and visual workshop is geared toward actors, dancers, puppeteers, designers, directors and educators interested in learning to design and construct puppets from paper. Explore and learn to differentiate and isolate the movements of each part of the body when interacting with the puppet as a whole.
Each workshop participant will create his or her own character and learn choreography using mime techniques based on the creation of illusion of space and object. All participants and their puppets will participate in an original performance at the end of the workshop with emphasis placed on linear and abstract stories, with little use of spoken text. Puppets and objects become instruments for the dancer – a style incorporating movement and design, which are hallmarks of Restrepo’s work.
Maximum 20 participants
May 7 – 11, 10 AM – 3 PM
$350 + HST
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playwriting: getting close to the scene with carlos satizábal
Colombia
English + Spanish
This is a unique experience for artists who wish to explore playwriting with Creación Colectiva (Collective Creation). We will explore innovative dramaturgical approaches to creating experimental and socially motivated theatre through hands-on exercises for writing and developing individual creative process.
Through navigating our memory, we learn to find characters, circumstances and chains of action. From known elements and experiences we look for the unknown, the surprise element. We invent situations, characters, and theatrical images to create a scene. We learn to create from within.
This workshop will concentrate on both personal and collective, getting on our feet to improvise with Creación Colectiva. This gives the writer an opportunity to hear material out loud, not simply as a reading, but as a way of launching collective improvisation with other workshop participants. We are working with a form of “presentation” theatre rather than solely “representation”. This unique intercultural, multilingual workshop is a great learning opportunity for artists also wishing to work and create with at risk-communities. Creators are encouraged to write in their language of preference. We will present a public reading on the final day.
Maximum 12 participants
May 14, 16 and 18, 2 PM – 5 PM and May 19 and 26, 10 AM – 4 PM
$250 + HST
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la pasarela with patricia ariza
Colombia
Spanish + English
Co-produced with Nightwood Theatre, Aluna Theatre is proud to offer a rare opportunity to discover and create with Patricia Ariza, one of the leading Latin American women theatre-makers and activists with a deep-rooted commitment to the empowerment of women and victims of war around the world.
First created in 2007 with 45 women in Colombia, La Pasarela has since been presented and staged in Norway, Japan, Mexico and Peru. Aluna Theatre has a long history of artistic exchange with La Corporación Colombiana de Teatro, and is pleased to have Patricia come and develop the Canadian La Pasarela, with women of all backgrounds and diverse disciplines. A maximum of 35 women – actors, dancers, singers, musicians, poets, rappers, spoken word artists, videographers, performance artists, elders, survivors of violence and community leaders will learn from this master, tools to empower women and communities through the process of the Colombian Collective Creation. La Pasarela uses the form of a “fashion show catwalk” and turns it into a feminist argument by using a tool of oppression as a medium of expression. La Pasarela will be presented as part of the Panamerican Routes / Rutas Panamericanas Conference on May 26 at 2 PM at Theatre Passe Muraille.
Maximum 35 women
May 21 – 23 and May 25,10 AM – 3 PM, May 24, 2 PM – 6 PM, May 26, 2 M – 5 PM (public presentation)
Nightwood Studio, 55 Mill Street, The Cannery, Suite 315
Special Rate (subsidized for this workshop only) $125 + HST
*To ensure accessibility to professional development for women, the reduced rate of $125 + HST is made possible with the support of Nightwood Theatre. Other workshop discounts do not apply.
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performance development with violeta luna – el cuerpo: territorio y frontera, the body: territory and border
Mexico + San Francisco
English + Spanish
This three-day workshop is geared toward students and professionals in theatre, dance, spoken-word, performance art and the visual arts who are interested in arte-acción (performance art) and in paratheatre (a highly dynamic and visceral approach to performance that aims to erase traditional divisions between spectators and performers – Jery Grotowski). Participants will use their body and voice as the territory for creation and will develop actions from their personal complexities of memory, identity and their individual and social understanding of race, gender and sexuality. Some of the themes we will investigate include:
1The Body – experiential exercises, presence and internal strength
2The Space – in relation to your environment, intervention in public and private spaces
3Time – real, fictitious, ritualistic
4Action – creation in situ, reaction, real and fictitious stimuli, audience interaction and how to handle the accidental
Applicants will be required to submit a resume and a paragraph describing why they are interested in this workshop.
Maximum 12 participants
May 21 – 23, 1 PM – 5 PM
$200 + HST
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conference series
May 24 – 26, 2012 at Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace
Panamerican Routes offers six provocative conferences in English and Spanish for artists, academics, community leaders, activists, interest groups, and the general public to gather and investigate how theatre can bring awareness and affect social change in areas of migration, displacement, corporate responsibility, and human rights. Each conference is linked to a specific Panamerican Routes performance or reading.
cost per conference
By donation – minimum $5
$25 Conference Series Pass
Free for Panamerican Routes Festival Pass holders
To purchase the $25 Conference Series Pass or for more information contact Aluna Theatre 416-203-2535 or aluna@alunatheatre.ca
Theatre and Displacement: Migration, Immigration and Armed Conflict
We kick off the conference with a one-of-a kind conversation about historical memory and how to use culture in a state of displacement. This conference focuses on the use of theatre with people and communities who live in areas of armed conflict, or who are refugees from such areas.
Cultural Exchanges and Collaborations
Featuring festival performers, this panel focuses on the nature and impact of national and international collaborations, particularly between “professional” artists and “community” artists.
Theatre and the Law I: Security and Law in Canada
A staged reading of Homegrown, the controversial play by Catherine Frid that kicked off a national media firestorm, will be followed by a discussion on the Toronto 18 case and the human rights irregularities committed by our Canadian government in the name of anti-terrorism. We will also investigate the issue of freedom of speech. Lawyers from both side of the case will partake in this discussion, as well as artists, activists and academics. Panelists include the Catherine Frid, Allan Hux, Matthew Behrens and Lwam Ghebrehariat.
Theatre and the Law II: Canada and Corporate Responsibility Abroad
Part II of Theatre and the Law is an engaging conference made possible with the support of Klippensteins Barristers & Solicitors, who have lawsuits in Ontario against HudBay Minerals and HMI Nickel regarding the murders and gang rapes in Guatemala. The conference will begin with a reading of transcripts of affidavits in the case of Adolfo Ich, a Mayan community leader who was killed by security forces contracted to the Canadian mining company. A discussion will follow featuring the artists, the lawyers, activists, and experts on mining in Latin America.
Breaking Models I: What to do with the Macho
Nuevas Masculinidades (The New Masculinity) is a humorous and thought provoking “performance paper” by Carlos Satizábal, which has been presented in festivals around the world. The “performance paper” will be followed by a dissection and discussion featuring the artists, academics and audience.
Breaking Models II: Theatre of Action
La Pasarela (The Catwalk) by Patricia Ariza has been a notable sensation at international festivals. This session features a presentation of a work collectively created by up to 40 female artists and community members in Toronto during the Panamerican Routes Festival. La Pasarela is a fashion show turned into a feminist argument by using a tool of oppression as a medium of expression. Hilarious, thoughtful and heartbreaking – this powerful performance will be followed by a discussion amongst artists, academics, activists and audience.
*Conferences and participants subject to change without notice
2012-04-16
Toronto: Workshops and a conference are part of Aluna Theatre’s Panamerican Routes Festival May 15-27