- Site-specific composition workshop directed by Rodrigo Pardo
Eugenio Barba (The paper Canoe)
Artifice is everywhere, just a little
change of perspective and what we call reality is transformed into a
pattern of life, a style, a way of being in the world, something
recognizable and measurable that in its suspicious recurrence reveals a
hidden structure, the script in which we all are the actors. As we
build the dreams from the shreds of truth left behind by the day, the
quotidian is also built on a solid foundation of fantasy and is in
between those two worlds where the artist needs to keep the tension
alive, the mystery that goes beyond definition and emerges only in the
lived experience.
Departing from the choice of site-specific creation as a way to enter
in a direct dialogue with reality and looking to develop a poetic
awareness on how it is perceived, the workshop analyses composition
tools coming from theatre, dance and movie making techniques in its
interaction with public spaces. This study is not only centred in the
performance itself as an isolated artistic object but also in the way
it is actively co-created by the spectator , as it is described by
theorists like Jaques Ranciere or Erika Fischer-Lichte.
The workshop starts with a presentation of visual and writing
material followed by a discussion in which the feasibility problems
related to site-specific productions are also took in consideration.
The participants are then asked to gather in groups and create short
performances placed inside an established perimeter not far from the
workshop location. Guided along the creation process by Rodrigo Pardo,
the groups finally propose the scenes to the other participants in a
showing “tour” across the city connecting the different chosen
locations.
The workshop is usually completed in 5 days (other formats are
possible) and it is directed to people with any kind of performing arts
background together with writers, filmmakers or musicians interested in
the confrontation of their practice to a site-specific stage.
*It is also possible to envisage a “pandemic” version, presenting all
the visual and theoretical material via Zoom and guiding the
participants to develop and film their individual performances.
Rodrigo Pardo
MA in Performing Arts (Dasarts-Amsterdam/NL), and graduated
Contemporary Dancer and Actor (TGSM/Argentine). His choreographic and
site-specific pieces has been presented by international festivals
like: Biennale Di Venezia/IT, International Festival of Buenos
Aires/AR, Festival de Marseille/FR, Napoli theatro Festival/IT,or Dance
Umbrella/UK, while his work has been supported by institutions like:
Creative Europe, In-Situ/European network, Lieux Publics/FR, Empac/New
York/US, or Antorchas Fundation/AR.
Rodrigo is currently based in Munich and Marseille, from where he
alternates his creation and teaching work in different parts of Europe.
Links to some of his site-specific work :
ROOF / FLAT / Dos Ambientes/Napoli / Toilet Tango
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