21 Oct - 08 Nov 24
Fee: 800€, three weeks, hours 16h - 20:15h Monday to Friday
LOCATION
EDEN, Studio 190 OG
Breite Straße 43
13187 Berlin
This three-week Intensive is led primarily by Hajo Schüler (Familie Flöz) with support from Lei-Lei Bavoil (Familie Flöz), Valentina Bordenave and the arthaus team.
Hajo: At a time when the question of 'how to go on' presses us anew every day, masks offer us an opportunity to put aside both brooding and meaningless activity. Through their objectivity, they can help us to focus our gaze, to perceive more precisely and to constantly ask 'what is real', what is actually happening.
The mask feels uncomfortable being vague and constantly demands decisions. This is what makes it such a valuable tool for learning and training. It does not debate, does not dazzle with words, does not simply allow itself to be harnessed to our ideas. It is always in need of living force and reveals so much more than it conceals.
With the permanent availability of information and possibilities, the question arises as to how we can find form again. With the mask, we get a tool in our hands (or in front of our face) that already brings a form with it. Our work as performers can therefore begin immediately: What moves us and what moves the mask? How do we move? How do we breathe? What drives us to act? And last but not least, how do we move our audience?”
HAJO SCHÜLER is a writer, performer, director and mask maker, co-founder and artistic director of FAMILIE FLÖZ. The Berlin-based company is considered a new discovery of theater with masks and has been working together for more than 30 years. The plays have won several awards and have been performed in 43 countries. The characteristic masks are the trademark of the ensemble, whose works are always created in a collaborative process and navigate between drama, physical theater, opera, clown and comedy.