MAY WORKSHOP
Dates:
Saturday 17.05.2025 h 13:00 - 20:00
Sunday 18.05.2025, h 13:00 - 20:00
Fee:
Reduced: 145 euro for early birds by April 20th and for students.
Normal: 160 euro
Donor: from 165 euro on: if you like the work, you can consider sustaining it.
Note on payment: Marcozzi Contemporary Theater's policy is supportive: if you have economical issues, feel free to write an email to find a solution.
Registration: daniela.marcozzi@gmail.com
NOVEMBER WORKSHOP
Dates:
Saturday 08.11.2025 h 13:00 - 20:00
Sunday 09.11.2025, h 13:00 - 20:00
Fee:
Reduced: 145 euro for early birds by October 12th and for students.
Normal: 160 euro
Donor: from 165 euro on: if you like the work, you can consider sustaining it.
Note on payment: Marcozzi Contemporary Theater's policy is supportive: if you have economical issues, feel free to write an email to find a solution.
Registration: daniela.marcozzi@gmail.com
DESCRIPTION
The Urge of Being is a work-flow and research process which intertwines physical theater, vocal training, movement research, body and vocal composition and dramaturgy.
A consistent part of the workshop are the “Plastique Sequence” and “Body-voice training” derived from J. Grotowski's training and research that Daniela has learnt from Peter Rose, a theater director and performer, former student of Grotowski.
In the context of this workshop the “Plastique Sequence” aims to open the performer's body and bring it into direct and authentic relationship with the other people and with the environment. The “Body-voice training” is a dynamic study of the body's resonators, physical cavities of our body responsible for voice resonation.
By exploring the voice while being in motion, we’ll activate the body's resonators organically connected with the movements and with the inner landscapes and feelings of the performer. Voice will become an active and integral component of the performer's flow and it will feel natural. It will not be considered and felt as an extra element of the movement, as a comment to the action, but the voice will be in movement, as well as breath, playful, light and profound.
The driving force of this workshop is urgency, understood as an unconditional driving force to survive at any level. The work invites performers to consciously generate their own urgency by working with the body's internal impulses. The workshop puts the performers' organism in the condition of continuously adjusting its homeostasis in order to position itself in the present moment and space and quickly react to the given situation.
This condition is called “Artistic Survival Mode” by Daniela Marcozzi, and it has been developed during her Master's degree in Artistic Research at the Accademia Teatro Dimitri in Lugano, Switzerland.
Far from being a condition of panic, the “Artistic Survival Mode” is a condition in which performers consciously place themselves out of balance physically, emotionally, spiritually, drawing their energy from the body's impulses. Impulses become the main source of performative energy.
This approach creates energetic processes that allow the performers to work with the emotional system from the inside-out and embodiment processes from the outside-in.
We'll build energetic processes capable of bringing the text and voice into the body and to integrate movements and dance in the emotional and embodiment processes. The performers are invited to work across performance categories with the aim of creating a comprehensive and original performance experience in which the performer's body is involved in all its spheres in a harmonious and free way. Riding the waves of different energetic processes, we combine body, movement, text, voice and imagination, to bring our dramaturgy to life.
Author and trainer of the workshop: Daniela Marcozzi
As a revolutionary act, the performing arts are for me a powerful and authentic tool of light and profound connections, able to explore the mystery and energy of human nature, the interconnectedness between human beings and all the other creatures and forces of nature.
I am a freelance artist working in the domain of contemporary theatre as performer, director, trainer and researcher. In 2015 I initiated the project and company Marcozzi Contemporary Theater in Berlin, and our works (solo and ensemble) have been shown in different international venues and festivals (English Theater, ada studio, Acud Theater, Expedition Metropolis Theater in Berlin; Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main (DE), Locarno, Winterthur (CH), FAKI, Zagreb (CR), Underground festival Sofia, (BG) Milano and Rome Fringe Festival (IT), PS122 New York City, ArtKlub New Orleans, etc.
My creations are characterized by a wide variety of artistic languages meant to create a comprehensive performative experience that includes spoken text, physical actions, singing and vocal experimentation, movement research, rhythm and live music.
In parallel to my performative education, I hold a master degree in Environmental Biotechnology and I worked for two years in science research centres in Germany and Holland. From the scientific practices I gained the propositive inclination to the research of the "new", to the experimentation for the sake of experimentation, independently from political/economic dynamics, and I applied them to the theatrical research.
My main artistic research is called “The Urge of Being” and it aims at exploring the biology of emotions and theories of embodiment and defining an innovative artistic practice that brings together life science and performing arts.