Jean-Guy Lecat's workshop at Casa da Arquitectura
Lecat was Peter Brook’s technical director and set designer in the Theatre Bouffes du Nord for 25 years.
15 places are opened to architecture students interested in participating. The participation costs 50 euros*. The registration can be directed to the mails: [email protected] and [email protected].
To do a theatrical performance means to try to “represent life, understand it in its greater intensity, come up with, in a way as realistic as poetic, the context in which life is happening. The performance’s purpose is to ensure that everyone feels better and in a bigger space. If we go to a theatre and then we feel worse, the performance did not have its only possible benefit, that is to make us feel better, comfortable, relieved, or, ideally, braver, with a new vitality.
Peter Brook, director
“At a time where traditional theatre work space is responding less and less and when it becomes difficult, at the same time, to work with new spaces, what is the answer to the directors that experiment alternative relations?
Today, every theatrical space seeks a new freedom, a new movement field, purified of artistic convections that are obstacles to the revelation itself. The Harmony of theatrical space is difficult; there is a duality between technology and the essential that needs to be observed. Nothing should be there without a reason.
The idea of this workshop is to find out that telling something is not only a question of words. Human beings, costumes, scenery, illumination, video, sound and walls have their part in a play. We should eliminate things that create distance; in the simplicity, every element has its importance and we can see with a greater intensity things that cannot be seen in another way.”
Jean-Guy Lecat
The workshop has the support of Casa da Arquitectura, Mendrisio Academy of Architecture and Atelier Carla Juaçaba’s organization.
This is the program for the four days of the workshop:
Thursday, November 17
10h00 -12h00 Introduction by Jean-Guy Lecat
12h00 - 13h30 Lunch
13h30 - 15h00 Visit to the exhibition "Souto de Moura - Memory, Projects, Works"
15h00 - 19h00 Workshop
Friday, November 8
9h00 - 14h00 Workshop
14h00 - 15h00 Lunch
16h00 -17h30 Visit to Teatro Sá e Costa
18h00 - 19h00 Visit to Casa da Música
Saturday, November 9
9h00 - 11h00 Visit to Teatro São João
12h00 - 14h00 Workshop
14h00 - 15h00 Lunch
15h00 - 19h00 Workshop
Domingo, November 10
9h00 - 13h00 Workshop
13h00- 14h00 Lunch
14h00 -16h30 Workshop Conclusion
17h00 - 19h00 Visit to the Exhibition “In/Disciplina Siza Vieira” at Fundação Serralves.
*Dislocations, meals and entries in the visit locals are not included. Workshop in English, without simultaneous translation.
(Foto: the circle of guix lacasià - Brecht)
15 places are opened to architecture students interested in participating. The participation costs 50 euros*. The registration can be directed to the mails: [email protected] and [email protected].
To do a theatrical performance means to try to “represent life, understand it in its greater intensity, come up with, in a way as realistic as poetic, the context in which life is happening. The performance’s purpose is to ensure that everyone feels better and in a bigger space. If we go to a theatre and then we feel worse, the performance did not have its only possible benefit, that is to make us feel better, comfortable, relieved, or, ideally, braver, with a new vitality.
Peter Brook, director
“At a time where traditional theatre work space is responding less and less and when it becomes difficult, at the same time, to work with new spaces, what is the answer to the directors that experiment alternative relations?
Today, every theatrical space seeks a new freedom, a new movement field, purified of artistic convections that are obstacles to the revelation itself. The Harmony of theatrical space is difficult; there is a duality between technology and the essential that needs to be observed. Nothing should be there without a reason.
The idea of this workshop is to find out that telling something is not only a question of words. Human beings, costumes, scenery, illumination, video, sound and walls have their part in a play. We should eliminate things that create distance; in the simplicity, every element has its importance and we can see with a greater intensity things that cannot be seen in another way.”
Jean-Guy Lecat
The workshop has the support of Casa da Arquitectura, Mendrisio Academy of Architecture and Atelier Carla Juaçaba’s organization.
This is the program for the four days of the workshop:
Thursday, November 17
10h00 -12h00 Introduction by Jean-Guy Lecat
12h00 - 13h30 Lunch
13h30 - 15h00 Visit to the exhibition "Souto de Moura - Memory, Projects, Works"
15h00 - 19h00 Workshop
Friday, November 8
9h00 - 14h00 Workshop
14h00 - 15h00 Lunch
16h00 -17h30 Visit to Teatro Sá e Costa
18h00 - 19h00 Visit to Casa da Música
Saturday, November 9
9h00 - 11h00 Visit to Teatro São João
12h00 - 14h00 Workshop
14h00 - 15h00 Lunch
15h00 - 19h00 Workshop
Domingo, November 10
9h00 - 13h00 Workshop
13h00- 14h00 Lunch
14h00 -16h30 Workshop Conclusion
17h00 - 19h00 Visit to the Exhibition “In/Disciplina Siza Vieira” at Fundação Serralves.
*Dislocations, meals and entries in the visit locals are not included. Workshop in English, without simultaneous translation.
(Foto: the circle of guix lacasià - Brecht)
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