the landscape as play material with Nathalie Béasse

Contributors: clément goupille and stéphane imbert
Workshop open to 16 professional actors, dancers, and performers

In my work, I feel the need to support a sensitive approach to the body and space, to listening — to oneself and to others — and to sensations, grounded in the simplicity of encountering others and trusting one’s imagination.

With this workshop, we will explore how to bring landscape into the body. This question will be at the heart of our research — everywhere.

How do we bring the outside in? How do we transform intimate stories into a collective voice?
We will engage physically with the space, treating the stage as a blank canvas, where everything fills in and fades away.

To be together here and now, to create a world — multiple worlds — and invent a living fresco. To play with the back-and-forth between cinema and painting, theatre and dance.
To dare to stop questioning, to embrace letting go and play with it, to joyfully commit to shaping a delicate composition of our doubts.

concept, direction, and scenography: nathalie béasse
a commission from the accademia nazionale d'arte drammatica silvio d'amico in rome – artistic direction by antonio latella
with: eva cela, luca ingravalle, fabiola leone, irene mantova, riccardo rampazzo, daniele valdemarin
assistant: clément goupille

"With the young actors of the Academy, we will work around the poetry and theatre of Shakespeare, imagining a variation based on several of his plays. Words will be like clay to be molded. We will take the words in our hands, place bodies everywhere, to tell stories of struggle and brotherhood — stage stories that will become our most intimate ones... Every element of the stage is a playmate, everything is on the same level: text, music, space, object, body." — Nathalie Béasse

Read the article of Controscena here.

From 3rd to 8th Febuary 2020, Nathalie Béasse directed young opera singers from the Opéra Studio de Colmar in Heure Espagnole by Maurice Ravel. 

This work was presented : 
- 8 th and 10th Febuary 2020, La Comédie de Colmar France
- 15th Febuary 2020, L'Opéra du Rhin - Strasbourg France

During the residencies in France and abroad, Nathalie Béasse has directed workshops with a number of artists/performers that constitutes a sense of belonging to a large family.
As part of OCCUPATION #3 at the téhâtre de la bastille, Nathalie Béasse brings together around fifty performers for three days to continue to search and invent new scenes and tableaux in echo with her shows.

professional training organised by ARMETI 

for professional artists/actors/dancers/performers.

experience needed in physical approach to the stage.

 

In relation with her work, Nathalie Béasse feels the necessity to a sensitive approach to the body, intimate and shareable, listening to ones self and others, to ones sensations, in a simple encounter and the possibility to give confidence in the imagination. 

to subscribe and for more information : http://armeti.fr/formations/categorie/formations-artistiques

We will be working from the story of Jean Seberg, on her films, her political stand and her intermate life.

The actor will be moving between a story, a speach, an emotion, an image, a piece of music, a dialogue from a film...

We will be searching and researching a sensitive approach on the physical body, intimate and shareable, listening to ones self and others, to ones sensations, in a simple encounter. The actor will work on an image both private and public of Jean Seberg as well as bring their own individuality. So that this story becomes stories, to be able to appraoch this woman in her own time, to hear her voice, to discover more than just her and ourselves...

for more information: Biennale College -Teatro workshop

La Meute is firstly a series of 3 workshops with 20 amaters to look at Nathalie's artistique language. Throughout her works Nathalie Béasse questions; what unites and divides siblings, a tribe. What creates and dissolves the relationships between people.

After an immersion, last year with the performers from the Cycle Spécialisé Théâtre (Nantes conservatoire) in a space where all our senses are awakended we continue to clear a path in the forest. The musicians from the Cycle Spécialisé Musiques Actuelles (Nantes conservatoire) are joining us this year to dig and search with us...

 

The group is now an entity of 17 heads. This tribe will speak of thier stories of brotherhood, entounters, humanity...

 

With fragments of textes of litterature, theater, poetry, songs, we will compose a musical partition. All of this so that one story becomes many stories...

 

The goal is to find the poetry in a song, by and with ones body. each one is a partner of the other, the music becomes the partener of the actor, a sort of apponent to be confronted, at the same level of importance as the space and the elements of the stage.

 

To be in the present moment, in the pleasure of planing like children and the sing for you.

Nathalie Béasse