Workout for Intercultural Navigators
Holstebro Kommune - Odin Teatret -
IKC, Interkulturelt Center
WIN
A WORKOUT FOR INTERCULTURAL
NAVIGATORS
THEATRE AS SOCIAL
INTERFERENCE
WIN (Workout for Intercultural Navigators) is
an on-going schooling programme with cyclic
courses, workshops, practical interventions and experiences under
the guidance of Odin Teatret and other 'artists in residence' at
Odin Teatret and in Holstebro.
WIN (Workout for Intercultural Navigators) is directed to
theatre practitioners and cultural animators who recognise in their
craft the capacity to interfere in the different cultures
of the social texture of a community. Theatre is a technique which
establishes relationships to oneself, to the past and present, to
space and to the community, to the other. Differently from the
traditional practice for which the performance is central,
theatrical insight can be applied to intervene and revitalise a
particular milieu.
Odin Teatret's experience as a laboratory is rooted in the
artistic quality of its performances. But our theatre laboratory
requires that their members are experts in asking pertinent
questions and solving concrete tasks (pure and applied research);
in passing on technical knowledge (pedagogy); in
being cultural operators who are active in the local community as a
means of stimulation and integration, promoting artistic
transformances and intercultural/intergenerational
dialogue and social exchange - or barter - seeking to enliven the
relationship between culturally distant individuals and subgroups.
Thus theatre, aiming at exchange and social interference, becomes a
means to activate a potential cultural energy, displaying anomalous
and exceptional experiences.
Theatre becomes the art of putting into relation that
which is different, making it visible and allowing a
communication based on a living contact of empathy and reciprocity.
Going beyond its artistic objectives, theatre becomes a cultural
motor which infuses equal dignity to the different forms of
expression in a community. Often events are placed on the
background of the architecture of the town or village, giving back
an aesthetic value also to the buildings, streets, fields, markets,
prisons, churches, post-offices… allowing the inhabitants to
rediscover their homes with different eyes.
Since 1989 Odin Teatret organises 'interference' projects of
various kind. One of these is the Festuge (Festive Week) in its
hometown Holstebro. Since 2005 workshops are realised in connection
with the Festuge to give participants worldwide the experience of
intervening in the community with theatrical interactions that
transform everyday life by framing it, making it visible and
extraordinary, establishing unexpected links and paradoxical
situations. A chosen theme is the creative starting point for
collaborations throughout the texture of the town with the
participation of all local organisations, associations,
institutions, schools, churches, barracks, old people homes, sport
clubs… During the workshops, participants work together part of the
day to receive basic elements of physical and vocal training. Then
they create performance material which is then assembled in
performative sequences presented during the Festuge at the same as
they prepare special events for the town. WIN (Workout for
Intercultural Navigators) takes inspiration from the Festuge
workshops and from other 'interference' activities carried out in
Europe and Latin America, to offer an on-going schooling
programme for participants wanting to learn how to deal
with theatre in its multifaceted possibilities. The programme of
WIN's individual workshops will be accompanied by occasional
participation of Odin Teatret actors, meetings with Eugenio Barba
and vision of Odin Teatret's and visiting guest's performances and
work demonstrations.
WIN 2012
Programme of courses,
workshops, practical interventions and experiences
8-22 January 2012
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEXT AND
PHYSICAL ACTIONS
A 2 week workshop led by Tage
Larsen (Odin Teatret)
>>>
15 February - 11 May
2012
THE MISTY ROAD TO A
PERFORMANCE
A 3 month process of
performance montage led by Pierangelo Pompa (director in residence
at Odin Teatret)
>>>
15 April - 15 May
2012
AGELESS GIANTS - CROSSING
1
A one month course and
practical intervention led by Deborah Hunt and The Jasonites
(artists in residence at Odin Teatret)
>>>
23 June - 23 July
2012
AGELESS GIANTS - CROSSING
2
A 4 week course and practical
intervention led by Deborah Hunt and The Jasonites (artists in
residence at Odin Teatret)
>>>
15 - 23 July
2012
INTERNATIONAL STILT
COUNCIL
A 1 week gathering of stilt
figures from all over the world led by Tage Larsen (Odin Teatret)
to work on parades and dances to be presented for 35.000 scouts in
Holstebro.
>>>
19th, 20th, 21st March
2012
18th to 23rd September
2012
November and December 2012
January 2014
BARTER IN NØRREBRO NEIGHBOURHOOD,
COPENHAGEN
Kai Bredholt (Odin Teatret) is working on the preparation and
realisation of an intercultural barter in one of Copenhagen's most
ethnically mixed neighbourhoods. The work consists of various
phases: smaller barters in March 2012 in order to find people
interested in participating, a full scale barter on the
23rd of September with preparation beforehand, work on a
intercultural performance from November 2012 to January 2013, in
collaboration with IKC and Kulturhuset i NV.
People interested in following this work can do so as observers.
Kai Bredholt will introduce the process in meetings and will be
available to answer questions, but apart from this the observers
have to organise themselves independently. So it is not a formal
workshop, but the possibility of following the preparation and
realisation of the barter and intercultural performance as it
happens, with all the changes of planning and schedules which are
inherent to this kind of work. The observers have to arrange their
own travel, food and lodging.
Please write directly to Kai Bredholt, harmonikai@get2net.dk
if you are interested in following this process.
11th and 12th of August
2012
CIRCUS AT THE EDGE
For three years in a row, in the summer, Kai Bredholt (Odin
Teatret) has directed a circus performance centred around a
lighthouse on the west coast of the Danish countryside involving
local farmers, students and pensioners. Because of internal
restructuring, in 2012 there will only be a 2 day event so as not
to break the tradition.
People interested in following this work can do so as observers.
Kai Bredholt will introduce the process in meetings and will be
available to answer questions, but apart from this the observers
have to organise themselves independently. So it is not a formal
workshop, but the possibility of following the preparation and
realisation of the Circus at the Edge and meet the farmers who have
also participated previously. The observers have to arrange their
own travel, transport, food and lodging.
Please write directly to Kai Bredholt, harmonikai@get2net.dk
if you are interested in following this process.
