Participants will focus on the basic training of an actor, techniques that link traditional disciplines and theatrical principles such as scores, rehearsal, organicity and rhythm. Through these exercises they will discover different types of energy in action and work on composition, opposition, balance and energy. 

Participants will explore different ways of jumping, turning and moving in space from the physical scores of Kalaripayattu, using silence, different music, songs and texts to work with their voice and body.

Participation at the Movement workshop is based on prior registration.

Training Principles:

• Dialogue with fatigue and endurance.
• Weight control, concentration, breathing, balance, flow and body center awareness.
• Theatricality and directions of the body, space and time.
• Development of three essential skills: patience and perseverance, capacity for effort and keeping calm and being in the present.

Participant’s Requirements:

• Participants must not have any physical problems.
• It is not necessary to have previous experience with this kind of workshop.
• Comfortable, neutral and pattern-free clothing. Change of clothes (T-shirt), drinking water.
• Should memorize a short text (20 lines) and a song. 

Specifications:

• Maximum of 20 participants
• Language: English