Theatre Collective Pontlevoy 2013

Andrew Tsao, Jason Turner, Laura Pasetti, Charlotte Gosselin, Teresa & Andrzej Wełmiński

With School of Drama students of University of Washington.

Our task was to promote Ctricot-2 Theatre idea and to pass the knowledge on stage arts, learnt by ourselves from Kantor.

This is the Theatre understood as the autonomous art, seen in the context of the whole of the artistic occurrences and our aim was to reach to the roots of contemporary occurrences in fine arts. The starting point of our actions were the subjects and problems occupying the leading artists at the beginning of 20th century.  

The Croquis (sketches) referred to individual emotions and were invoking to the collective memory. 

The classes included not only vocal practices, physical, motion, rhythm mastering, ability to transform oneself and to transform the characters, but also development and construction of the objects and costumes essential for the stage etudes.     

The results of the collective work were presented to the audience at a public show titled Tower of Babel.

The links of the spectacle were the following sequences:

 I.        Overture

II.        Exercises:

·         floor polishing

·         saw cutting

·         ladder climbing

·         weight carrying

·         great concerto

·         fall of Icarus

·         run after time lost

·         Lady BonBon

·         Hyper Puppet

 

III.        Precise measurements

IV.       Big Dipper or Sun Chariot

V.         Tower - construction

VI.       Disastrous photographer

VII.      Explosion

VIII.   On the ruins