Meeting 1

30, may, 2017

RCSSD Puppetry Studio

Present

Chusi Amoros

Cariad Astles

Marie Klimis

Mario Piragibe

Discussion:

In our first meeting, we discussed the creation of the Studygroup, pointing out that it should be a place to welcome different approaches and desires concerning the work of the performer in the context of contemporary puppetry and related arts. It should also be a place for both conceptual discussion and practical work.

A couple of statements and questions that rose from the conversation were:

Cariad:

Being mostly interested in puppeteers; how they work and how they retain and transmit their professional knowledge

Chusi:

Mainly interested in movement;

What is the perfect formula to have a “mover”/ performer with all the skills they need to make explorations with no limits and obstacles?

But also, not only to have a skilled performer but a maker/creator that can improvise and devise.

Learning techniques and creating your authentic expression as an artist.

Mario:

Thinks of Puppetry as a kind of crossroads for mixed performing arts, for it seems that the performer ends up showing a kind of a puppeteer´s approach to materials and space when in a context of mixed performing arts (dance, theatre, performance, material performance)

Understands that there could be a somehow similar approach to puppetry when a performer (in aerials, for instance) is faced with dealing with his own body in sets and dispositions that are different than the usual display of the human body in regular physical conditions (gravity, balance, impulse).

Mentioned some experiments on modern shadow theatre where the possibility of creating body images detached from the gravitational bind to the ground allows to invest in other ways of composition, scale relations and deformations.

Artists and companies mentioned:
Cie. Phillipe Genty

Ilka Schonbein

video: Paysages  Intérieurs (teaser), by Cie. Philippe Genty