CREATING THE WORLD ANEW

SUMMER 2025: SECOND VOYAGE OF EMBODIED POETICS
PADUA, ITALY

The Second Voyage is a three-month intensive in the devising methodology of Jacques Lecoq/Jacques Copeau/Suzanne Bing, in which theatre styles, or "territories", are approached according to their component structures of play, space and time, and the theatrical devices they employ.

An extended workshop/laboratory in which guides and participants work collaboratively to make theatre anew, the Second Voyage will explore the following territories:

JUNE

GEODRAMATIC REFERENCE POINTS

with Amy Russell and Norman Taylor

*First Practitioner Intensive (2 weeks)

JUNE 2 - 7: THE LANGUAGE OF GESTURE

June 9 – 14: PANTOMIME INTENSIVE with Norman Taylor

*Second Practitioner Intensive (1 week)

FIRST AND SECOND GEODRAMATIC TERRITORIES: CLOWN AND MELODRAMA

with Amy Russell and Justin Durel

*Third Practitioner Intensive (2 weeks)

June 16 - 21: CLOWN AND MELODRAMA

June 23 - 28: THE CLOWN IN MELODRAMA, applied to Chekhov

JULY

THIRD GEODRAMATIC TERRITORY: HALF-MASKED COMEDY

with Amy Russell and Sara Corsini

*Fourth Practitioner Intensive (2 weeks)

June 30 - July 5: PLAYING HALF-MASKS

July 7 - 12: HALF-MASKED CHARACTERS IN SITUATIONS

FOURTH AND FIFTH GEODRAMATIC TERRITORIES: TRAGEDY AND BOUFFON

with Amy Russell, Gonzalo Villareal and Ivano Conte

*Fifth Practitioner Intensive (3 weeks)

July 14– 19: DEVELOPING THE BOUFFON

July 21 – 26: THE TRAGIC CHORUS, CORYPHAEUS, PROTAGONIST AND ANTAGONIST

July 28 - August 2: BOUFFONESQUE TRAGEDY/TRAGIC BUFFOONERY: integrating the two territories, inspired by DADA and Brecht

AUGUST

THE GEODRAMATIC METHOD: DEVISING TIME AND SPACE

*Sixth Practitioner Intensive (2 weeks)

August 4 - 9: THE LABORATORY OF EMBODIED SPACE with Aurelian Koch

Constructing dramatic space

*Seventh Practitioner Intensive (1 week):

August 11 - 16: HIS DRAMATIC MATERIALS with Norman Taylor

How the world inspires theatre: Norman integrates the first and second voyages, Embodied Poetics and Geodramatics.

*Eighth Practitioner Intensive (1 week)

August 18 – 23: COMMISSIONED WORK - concluding projects

*Practitioner Intensives are stand-alone workshops that can be accessed by experienced practitioners. Some of the two-week intensives are also accessible as separate, one-week intensives.

The guides of EMBODIED POETICS are Amy Russell, Norman Taylor and Aurelian Koch, with pedagogic assistance from Justin Durel, Sara Corsini, Ivano Conte and Gonzalo Villareal Porzio.

The Second Voyage in its entirety offers the possibility of pedagogic training for those who intend to facilitate this methodology of actor-created theatre. The pedagogic programme also features weekly seminars and pedagogic practicums on Saturdays.

Depending on the applicant’s experience and whether or not they are taking the course as a pedagogic training, participants may enter the Second Voyage at different moments.

Some partial scholarships are available.

Please request a brochure for more information about the daily and weekly schedule, fees, scholarships and flexible participation. If you are interested in our programmes and have accessibility needs, please get in touch with us.