PROFESSIONAL COURSE
SECOND YEAR
The second year is devoted to the act of creation, exploring the main dramatic territories : melodrama, human drama, tragedy, bouffons and the art of the clown.
“No reference can take the place of a true act of creation as expressed with original inventiveness at the school every day. Going beyond styles or genres, we seek to discover the driving forces involved in the acting and operating in each territory, so that they in turn provide creative inspiration. It must always remain the work of our own time.”
Second year program:
- Physical and vocal preparation
- Dramatic acrobatics
- Applied techniques to different dramatic styles
- Gestural languages
- Mimed comic strips,
- Story telling through word and image
- Melodrama and great emotions
- Human comedy (Commedia dell’arte and half masks)
- Crowds and Orators
- The study of tragic texts, the chorus and the hero
- Bouffons from society and mystery
- The world of the fantastic and the grotesque
- Circus and theatre clowns
- The Comics (burlesque, absurd, eccentric)
- Study of classic and modern texts
- Approach to writing for the stage
The “auto-cours” :
Each week a theme is given to the students in such a way as to stimulate their imagination and benefit collective creation. The results are presented at the end of the week to the staff of teachers and the other students.
A performance of the works of the students is presented at the end of each term.
The Commission
At the end of the second year the students are given a personal theme, starting point for a devised piece, this concludes the two years of study and affirms their personal style.
3rd pedagogic year
The third year, called pedagogic year, is restricted to a limited number of students. They must have completed the two year professional course, have had some stage experience since the end of their studies at the school and have an interest in teaching. The year focuses on movement analysis, observation of improvisations and following the evolution of the students throughout the season.
Courses are given in French.
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