Workshop for actors, dancers and performers  

DEI PESI E DELLE ALI
Seminario di training per attori, danzatori, performer

Directed by Roberta Secchi
Place
GTAC - Glasgow Theatre and Arts Collective base
4th floor, 7 Water Row, Govan, Glasgow G51 3UW
Schedule
Friday 14th October 18.00 – 21.00
Saturday 15th October 10.30 – 17.30
Sunday 16th October 10.30 – 17.30
Number of Participants
Maximum 14
Cost
£50
To apply please email a completed application form to Robert Przekwas at Gappad Theatre at info@gappadtheatre.co.uk Places on this session are strictly limited, please book early.

 Every one of us has done some form of the training in the past. Every one of us has worked with the text, movement or character. But training lead by Roberta doesn't teach techniques or methods, it's not just an another workshop where you can learn how to talk and move, etc.

It is an intimate and solitary journey into our inner stage personas. It aims at finding connections between what is visible (physical actions), and what is invisible (the inner world/ emotional process). This is not a psychological exploration because it starts from the body.

Our body slowly learns how to protect itself by producing a membrane that filters reactions and emotions. Gradually it becomes thicker and harder and grows into a shell. Instead of just protecting intimate life, it starts to block its expression to the outside world. Therefore there is only one question: `who am I and what is my body?' when we think of it going through the shell of social identity that we willingly receive and accept from a social context.

This is what Weights and Wings are about. It is directed to all artists on the stage who want to reverse this logic of defence and disarm it in order to reach the spectators through truthful communication. This playful and mysterious process has been called 'training for actors'. We are not talking about acting yet.  We are talking about kindling psychic and physical energies which are strictly connected to each other. We aim at discovering personal ways to transform invisible life into visible presence and actions. Images, emotions, inner impulses that can find a way to become actions and sounds, that leave a mark in space and time, in order to betray secret tides of life.

Roberta Secchi
Curriculum Vitae