Teatro de la Laboral

This creative stagecraft workshop is designed to begin and develop a process of work whose final objective is a scenic piece. The process will be individual; that is to say, each participant will develop his/her own ideas. As each process will have its own particular requirements, the objective will not be to complete the piece, but rather to initiate the creative process.

The workshop is designed for:
A) Artists with preparation in writing, theatre, dance, plastic arts and visual arts.
B) Persons with training in artistic thought (history, philosophy etc.)
The workshop will be made up of three periods of work, over three months.
The course of the workshop will be individual to each of the participants. Participants are expected to work for the complete three month duration of the course, meeting personally during the three work periods and completing tutorials via Internet in the remaining time.

Number of participants: Eight. The selection process will be based on CVs submitted by the candidates, accompanied by an outline of the project they wish to pursue during the workshop. If previous work on the proposed project exists, candidates may include such material in their application. Candidates are advised to be as concrete as possible in their proposals.

Calendar

1st Phase: 25th to 31st March, 2010 (6 days, no work on the 28th )
Presentation and definition of the course of each participant. Initiation of the projects. First internal exposition.

2nd Phase: 7th to 16th June
Monitoring by the participants of the rehearsal process and staging of the play “Entre las brumas del cuerpo” by Carlos Marquerie, which will be presented at El Teatro de la Laboral. Group work including all participants. Personal and individual tutorials. Internal exposition of the progress of all participants’ projects.

3rd Phase: 28th June – 2nd July
Final phase: presentation and analysis of all work developed by the participants. These presentations will not be open to the pubic, but will form part of the creative process.
The work of the first and third phases will be done in daily sessions of 6 hours, from 4:00 – 10:00 p.m.

The timetable of the second phase will depend on the individual requirements of each process and on the rhythm of work of the play “Entre brumas del cuerpo”.

Playwright and theatrical director, plastic artist and lighting designer, Carlos Marquerie was a founding member of the company La Tartana Teatro in 1977. He directed the Encuentro Internacional de Teatro en la Calle (Internacional Street Performers Conference), in Madrid, the Encuentros de Teatro Contemporáneo (Modern Theatre Conference), in Murcia, and in 1990 he founded the Teatro Pradillo de Madrid with Juan Muñoz. Five years later he created the Compañía Lucas Cranach. Since 2005 he has been working on a long-term project, El cuerpo de los amantes, which currently includes two pieces for the theatre: El temblor de la carne (2007) and Que me abreve de besos tu boca (2005); two action installations: Entre la brumas del cuerpo (2008) and Maternidad y osarios (2008), and various series of drawings and photographs.