Research

2022
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2023
Création & Interprétation
R&D
2022
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2023
R&D

    Literal action: how to work with a text without being trapped by it

    This research project proposes to study acting directions in a non-explanatory and non-analytical relationship to a text. It is a question of deferring meaning, considering on the one hand that acting requires other methods than an investigation of "what is the meaning" and on the other hand that the rehearsal work allows a non predetermined approach to language. Literal action opens up original avenues of experimentation to short-circuit habits of textual interpretation. By experimenting with direct directing, and by focusing on the first degree to encourage the body to move, the vocabulary used for directing the actor and their body movements in space will be identified. The work will be based on the text Devant la parole by Valère Novarina, using the possibilities of the "pre-expressive" and the address for the actor.


    Photo:
    (Detail) La Cantate des mots camés (1971-1977) in François Dufrêne, Edition museuserralves, Museo de Arte contemporânea, 2007, p. 162.
    Slideshow: Joachim Sommer

    Team

    Prune Beuchat, actress, researcher
    Julien Meyer, stage director, researcher
    Maxine Reys, stage director, doctoral student

    Publications

    Communication :

    BEUCHAT Prune, MEYER Julien, REYS Maxine, Conférence performée - Danser la parole, le 1er février 2024 au Dansomètre (Vevey).