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Saturday 07.12.2024 h 12:30 - 20:00
Sunday 08.12.2024, h 13:00 - 20:00
DOCK 11, Kastanienallee 79, 10435 Berlin
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Reduced: 140 euro for early birds until Nov. 3th, Berlin Pass, students.
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Please write an email to: daniela.marcozzi@gmail.com
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workshop for performers
2-day workshop for performers
by Daniela Marcozzi / Marcozzi Contemporary Theater
The Urge of Being is a group-based training and research process that includes tools of physical theater, vocal training, movement research, techniques of embodiment, composition and dramaturgy.
It is a flow of work in which specific exercises are organically orchestrated with free and improvised moments.
The work includes the the Plastique Sequence and Body-voice derive from J. Grotowski's training and research that Daniela has learnt from Peter Rose, a theater director and performer from NYC, 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 the rest of the environment.
The Body-voice training is a dynamic study of the body's resonators, focusing on how to work with the voice while in motion, activating the body's resonators organically, to make the voice an active and integral component of the physical work.
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.
The driving force of the work is urgency, understood as an unconditional urge to survive at any level. The work invites performers to consciously generate their own urgency by working with the body's internal impulses.
This condition is called Artistic Survival Mode by Daniela, 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, etc., out of known performance patterns, drawing their energy from the body's impulses.
In this way, impulses become the main source of performative energy.
This is a give and take process, and it consists of the continuous interaction between expression and embodiment.
This type of approach creates different 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 rather than within any single category with the aim of creating a complete performance experience in which the performer's body is involved in all its spheres in a harmonious, orchestrated and free way.
Riding the waves of different energetic processes, we will combine body, movement, text, voice and imagination, to bring our dramaturgy to life.
NOTES ON THE WORK
Previous experience in performing arts or performative body-work or self-consciousness related work is required.
The inclination in working cooperatively both in group and individually is desired.
This work is addressed to performing artists of any kind, students, semi-professional and professionals. It is addressed as well to musicians, visual artists and somatic practitioners, creative minds, movers, etc.
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The Urge of Being is based on the Artistic Research that Daniela Marcozzi, former biologist, carried out at the Accademia Teatro Dimitri, Switzerland during the Master of Arts in Artistic Research. Her research aims at exploring the biology of emotions and theories of embodiment and defining an innovative training based on urgency of expression, that brings together life science and performing arts.“We’re not just little hunks of meat. We’re vibrating like a tuning fork — we send out a vibration to other people. We broadcast and receive. Thus the emotions orchestrate the interactions among all our organs and systems to control that.” (PhD Candace Pert). A significant input to this work comes from the Biochemistry of emotion, a theory developed by C. Pert revealing how chemical substances produced by our organism – neuropeptides and their receptors – constitute the biological basis of our consciousness.
Pert’s theory shows how certain molecules - neuropeptides - that carry emotional messages, reside not only in the brain, but throughout the whole body. All the cells of our body embed, in the cell’s membrane, specific receptors that bind the neuropeptides.
For this reason, physical manifestations are often the expression of intangible sensations because emotions are an important tool that the body has to put in actions certain physical actions in order to survive.
A certain quantity of energy is produced by the cell to put in place emotional responses. However when emotions are held in our body, the energy is blocked.
When emotional responses are suppressed, denied or blocked then they cannot express their full energetic potential and their flow is hampered. Emotions blocks, determined by cellular impediments, determine alterations in our behavior and energy flow.
More at: danielamarcozzi.net/the-urge-of-being-c1myy
TRAINER DANIELA MARCOZZI
As spiritual and physical revolutionary acts, the performing arts are for me a powerful and authentic tools of communication, able to explore the mystery and energy of human nature, the connection between humans and the more-than-human and to give voice to the impulses to express and share oneself.I am a freelance artist working in the big domain of contemporary theatre as performer, director, trainer and researcher.
I have circa 15 years of experience as a professional performer, trainer and theater director.
In 2015 I initiated in Berlin the project and company Marcozzi Contemporary Theater and our works (solo and ensemble) have been showed in many 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 Orlenas, 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.
My education originates mainly from Grotoswki's training body-voice and plastique, which I had the occasion to study in Berlin with Peter Rose, a former student of Grotowski.
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 positive 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.
You can read more about my work here: danielamarcozzi.net