Intensive Workshop
TRAINING PECULIARITY
Physical theatre as a creative tool
Project your unicity into collective creation
Facilitated by NELA FORTUNATO (in English)
Plyfa welcomes back the Argentine artist for two days that will work as a catalyst for creation. Training through physical theatre exercises and movement analysis, we will dive into our own individuality towards the creation of collective stage narratives.
THEMES
Peculiarities/ identity on stage/ movement, voice, and space dynamics/ the collective body
OBJECTIVES
To notice through observing and training the personal and group physical tendencies, igniting the development of characters, scenes, and poetic narratives
CONTENT
Work on our own particular dynamics- with it, not against it// observation and production exercises through moving-sounding body// transposing perceptions into collective imaginary derived from training// create narratives merging from the encounter in the present moment// enhancing our unique voices
Aimed at theatre artists with and without prior training who wish to enrich their own material, expand their narrative possibilities from a physical/poetic perspective, encouraging listening and self-awareness.
Nela Fortunato is an Argentine theatre maker, director, performer and tutor. Her practice lies at the intersection of physical theatre, immersive dramaturgy, and collective creation, developing what she defines as a ‘dramaturgy of the body’ She works from the hybridization of movement, autobiographical writing, vocal composition, and participatory devices, imagining performative environments where the intimate dialogues with the collective.
She is a co-founder of the companies Usted Está Aquí and La Monstruosa, in Bs As, with whom she has conceived and developed site-specific and immersive projects. She coordinated interdisciplinary platforms for creation and in which she also performed. Moreover, she develops an authorial line that explores the transition from solo performance to collaborative experience. As a director and facilitator, she has developed workshops and projects in Argentina, Greece, Spain, and the UK, articulating processes of shared authorship and intercultural dialogue. Her work SOPA—written and directed by her—opened new paths of exploration surrounding gender/genre with their own voice. T rained at Andamio 90 and a scholarship recipient at the London International School of Performing Arts, she specialized in movement analysis, physical theatre, devising and creation with masks.
