PARIS SUMMER ACADEMY (PSA)

What makes PSA different from all other summer intensive programs is the concept of PSA itself: We only invite creative artists to share their own methods not the other’s as art teachers do. Paris Summer Academy is for you if you are an artist who does not like to be put in a box. You are more welcome to join us if you are a curious dancer about other art forms; or an actor who needs to move instead of talking-walking, or a performance artist who needs to expand his/her career towards more interdisciplinary fields

WHAT :

Paris Summer Academy (PSA) is the meeting spot for innovative workshops around Dance, Physical theatre, Performance & Live art as well as Body-Mind research methods. PSA is a summer intensive project initiated and organised by ORIANTHEATRE Dance Company in partnership with the CITÉ INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS DE PARIS & the MICADANSES. The program is open to all curious and open-minded Dancers, Physical theatre actors and Performance artists who are willing to expand their abilities towards a cutting edge horizon. In 2020, PSA’s guest teaching-artists and companies are: Willi DORNER Company (Vienna, Austria), Sol PICO Company (Barcelona, Spain), ULTIMA VEZ Company (Brussels, Belgium), Toula LIMNAIOS Company (Berlin, Germany), Mehdi FARAJPOUR / ORIANTHEATRE Dance Company (Paris, France),…

WHO :

# SOL PICO Company (Barcelona, Spain) /// Contemporary Dance /// Summary: Sol Picó, well versed in classical and contemporary dance techniques such as Cunnigham, Graham, Limon etc, and chi kung influences, makes use of them indirectly and gathers the primary energy necessary to start a journey into the development of the most personal nature. As to her movement both on stage and in her teaching method, she remains true to herself, working on the premises of power, speed, distortion and disruption of the body lines. /// Click on the name of the company for more information about the artist, style, shows,…

# WILLI DORNER Company (Vienna, Austria) /// Urban Space Performance & Dance Research /// Workshop Title: Multiple cityscape or open city /// Theme: Studio-space: protected, isolated – city-space: open, flowing /// Summary: Starting point is my body as the main source of perception of my spatial surroundings, using all its different corporeal senses for observing and analyzing, with the help of different means of medias we trace and record and develop an intervention on outside spots that found our interest midst in the public flow and in the urban drift focusing on meaningfully irrelevances. /// Click on the name of the company for more information about the artist, style, performances,…

# MEHDI FARAJPOUR (ORIANTHEATRE Dance Company) (Paris, France) /// Workshop Title: EMPTY BODY, a Meditative Dance and Performance Landscape /// Summary: EMPTY BODY is a creative movement and contemporary choreographic practice where Dance, Theatre, Performance & Poetry come together. The main challenge for practicers of this method is how to reach to the state of Emptiness in their mind as well as in their body. The same goal as in Hinduism: SAMADHI (समाधि), or in Sufism: FANA (فقر و فنا)  & in Buddhism: Nirvana (निर्वाण). /// Click on the name of the artist and/or the company for more information about the style, performances, workshops,…

# ULTIMA VEZ Company (Brussels, Belgium) /// Physical Theatre and Contemporary Dance /// Summary: participants of this workshop will study the vocabulary from several ULTIMA VEZ shows with the company’s artists in order to understand the most important aspects of these performances. Participants explore and confront Vandekeybus’ energetic vocabulary through floor work, partner and contact work and movement as a ‘theatrical act’ rather than as a ‘technique’ /// Click on the name of the company for more information about the style, shows, workshops,…

# TOULA LIMNAIOS Company (Berlin, Germany) /// Contemporary Dance /// Summary: Coming soon /// Click on the name of the company for more information about the artist, style, shows,…

ATTENTION PLEASE: The capacity is limited and based on “first come first served” rules. We recommend you to apply as early as possible.

More details: https://www.oriantheatre.com/parissummeracademy

Fulfil and submit the ONLINE application form

Application close date: 17th July 2020, or until the places are taken