SCHOOL

The school pedagogy takes place over two years, during which students move along two parallel paths: on the one hand the study of improvisation and its rules and on the other movement technique and its analysis. These dual journeys are supplemented by “auto-cours” through which the students’ own theatre work takes shape.

The aim of the school is to produce a young theatre of new work, generating performance languages which emphasise the physical playing of the actor. The act of creation is constantly stimulated, largely through improvisation, which is also the first approach to playwriting. The school’s sights are set on art theatre, but theatre pedagogy is broader than the theatre itself. It is not just a matter of training actors, but to form theatre artists of all kinds: authors, directors, scenographers as well as actors. One of the school’s unique features is to provide as broad and as durable a foundation as possible, since we know that each student will pursue their own journey.

The school pedagogy brings meaning to an artistic path and has an impact on every field of knowledge. Rather than it being a method which is being handed down, it proposes permanent references and values.

Every year, young actors from some thirty countries enroll at the school. It is a place of exchange where the very nature of cultural mix brings to the teaching a resonance that deepens its search for an universal poetic awareness.