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*ARKADI ZAIDES
The workshop is organised during the 33rd edition of the FIT Festival Internazionale del Teatro e della scena contemporanea (Lugano, 29-30.09 – 04 -13.10.2024)
DATES: 6.10 – 8.10.2024 (for a total of 17 hours of work)
LANGUAGE: English
TARGET: Theatre, Dance, Performance authors/makers
PARTICIPANTS: 10
LOCATION: Lugano
TIMES: 6/7 October 10.00 – 13.00 / 14.00 – 17.00
8 October 10.00 – 13.00 / 14.00 – 16.00
COST: FREE OF CHARGE
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 23 August 2024
The workshop is promoted by the FIT Festival Internazionale del Teatro e della scena contemporanea in collaboration with LAC edu.
TOWARDS DOCUMENTARY CHOREOGRAPHY
SYNOPSIS
For about a century, documentary theatre has reconstructed factual information to analyse specific events or phenomena. Visual artists and filmmakers have joined this trend, demonstrating how factual information can be altered and questioned. The field of choreography, driven by critical experimentations, remains largely uncharted in adopting factual information into its corpus.
Choreographers often include documentary elements as sources of inspiration in their artistic process, yet little of these elements remain in the final stage work.
However, the intersection between embodied and documentary practices opens possibilities to articulate new modes of engagement and intervention in social and political realities.
In his artistic practice, choreographer Arkadi Zaides investigates the possibilities of choreography to relate to today’s societal urgencies through the use of documentary materials.
In this workshop, Zaides will share his artistic work and its challenges, as well as question the participants’ possible modes of engaging with their respective realities. Participants, makers within the field of theater, performance, and choreography, are requested to arrive at the workshop with clear documentary materials with which they would like to engage through their artistic practice.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Documents in digital format must be submitted no later than 23 August 2024.
The selection of applications will be made at the sole discretion of the organizers and the outcome will be communicated to applicants no later than 30 August 2024.
Applicants must send the following documents by e-mail (documents are to be sent in English):
– fully completed application form
– a PDF with bio and photo (maximum one A4 page)
– access to photos and videos of the candidate’s work
Please send applications to
Info: +41 91 225 67 61
NOTES
Attendance is compulsory for all workshop days, under penalty of exclusion. When applying, it is compulsory to indicate any problems in securing the attendance requirement.
Should the application lack the required data and information, it will NOT be accepted.
FOOD, ACCOMODATION AND CONDITIONS
Participation in the workshop is FREE OF CHARGE.
For participants living outside of Ticino, free accommodation will be provided (ten minutes by bus from the city centre, in multiple rooms shared with the other participants) for the entire duration of the workshop.
Meal vouchers can also be purchased at the convention price of CHF 18.- per meal.
Those who wish may stay in Lugano until the end of the festival, continuing to benefit from free accommodation and meal vouchers.
On the first day of the workshop, the start is scheduled for 10.00 am. It will therefore be necessary to be in Lugano on the morning of Sunday, 6th October by 9.30 or the night before.
Travel costs will be borne by the participants.
Workshop participants will have access to tickets to the Festival’s featured performances (courtesy price: CHF 10.-)
Selected applicants will be sent a show-booking form which MUST be sent back in response to the email notifying them that we have accepted your application, ABSOLUTELY no later.
Promoters
The workshop is promoted by the FIT Festival Internazionale del Teatro e della scena contemporanea in collaboration with LAC edu
