#While Oliver Pollak works intensively with the performers for the show and offers his coaching hands in MCD workshops, our video team is exploring the scenery of the video setting. In the video concept SKY OVER KATHMANDU, MADA[r]T uses the reference of Wender’s German famous romantic fantasy film Wings of Desire, shot in 1987 in Berlin. The team transfers the setting to the current state of Kathmandu and integrates it into the video concept of their production ANTIGONE. ‘SKY OVER KATHMANDU’ screens the perspective of the two angel-like characters Antigone (Akkanchha Karki) and Ismene (Pooja Lama), who are metaphysical entities populating the city of Kathmandu. With this crucial part of the production, the directors intend to build a bridge between the East and the West, the two cities of Berlin and Kathmandu, their history and relevant daily matters. In the experimental work of improvisation, the video is a contemporary piece exploring people, the city, and a concept, a longing for and love of life, existence, reality. shooting: January/February 2017 directing team MADA[r]T Camera: Gabor Hollos Antigone: Akanccha Karki Ismene: Pooja Lama Haemon: Utpal Jha The stone is rolling....and we are delighted that the project ANTIGONE IN NEPAL could successfully start this year! MADA[r]T offered a free workshop exclusively for the participants of the project ANTIGONE to be staged in PATAN MUSEUM this year. Through a rigorous training in flexibility, awareness, impulsivity and presence, through practical exercises, improvisation and play, the participants sharpened their intuition for a meaningful and authentic play on stage, giving room to our physical possibilities of expression, beyond spoken words. Within 4 days, they examined how to give this world of inner imagery a truthful representation to the outside. They dived into the art of “mime corporel dramatique” of the french mime and actor and grand-master Etienne Decroux, who is considered by most as the father of modern mime. This workshop was dedicated to physical performers with professional aspirations and zestfulness and passion for a physical and profoundly meaningful theatre. The aim is a transformation of the craftsman on stage towards presence, precision, playfulness, impulsivity and virtuosity in shape and rhythm. DATES: January 12 – 15, 2017 Mandala Theatre Anamnagar (In front of Singhadurbar East Gate) Kathmandu MNP-32 Kathmandu District Bagmati Zone Nepal The workshop was conducted by Oliver Pollak from Germany who studied several years mime, pantomime and physical theatre in Copenhagen, in Paris (at Marcel Marceau's) and in London. He has taught in many schools and workshops in Germany, France, Italy, Ireland, Czech Republic, Poland, Switzerland & Iran. Oliver is founder and director of 'Atelier des Mimes Berlin', a training and production place for physical theatre and corporeal mime in Berlin. Information to the Atelier des Mime in Berlin you'll find at: www.mime.berlin |
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