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Viewpoints Technique and Textual Sources for
Documentary Theatre Workshop
Lecturers: Jana Svobodová and Zov Velez
Where: Stodolio, Dvakačovice 71
When: 28th - 29th September, 10am - 4pm
Who: The workshop is intended for theater professionals and all those interested in the use of authentic sources in independent work. 18+
Price: 3000,- ck
The language of the workshop is Czech, possibly Czech and English.
In this workshop, participants will explore Jana Svobodová's curated style of creating documentary theater through improvisation and interviews as a source of authentic text. The workshop will offer participants original techniques based on the Viewpoints Method, including "extreme listening," an essential tool in our work at Archa.
Step by step, participants will start by exploring interpersonal relationships and understanding how space itself can act as a partner in stage action. They will then move on to working with authentic text.
As they progress, participants will use these insights to create original stage compositions in small groups, following specific guidelines. The goal of the workshop is to equip participants with theatrical techniques that inspire independent creation.
Practicalities: Participants should bring comfortable clothes, socks, and a light lunch. There is coffee, small snacks, and the possibility to heat food in a microwave.
Workshop Lecturers Jana Svobodová is a theater director, lecturer, artistic director of the Akcent International Documentary Theater Festival and founder of the International Documentary Theater Summer School. She graduated from DAMU in Prague in 1987. Her theater work was influenced by artists such as Peter Schumann, Min Tanaka and Anne Bogart. As a director, Jana Svobodová creates international projects that are based on the cooperation of professional artists and representatives of specific social groups. Her productions are regularly presented at international festivals. In 2019, the performance Ordinary People, which she co-created with Wen Hui, was presented in the main program of the Festival D'Avignon and the Festival D'Automne in Paris. www.https://janasvobodova.art/education Zov Velez is a non-binary performer, theatre-maker, activist and lecturer living in Great Britain. In 2016, they graduated in acting at Bath Spa University, in Great Britain. Through their artistic practice, Zov articulate their experience of social inequality through movement and narrative. Zov is an integral part of the dance-theatre group Dust Ensemble in Bristol, he is a member of the creative team of the production Eight compositions from the life of Ukrainians and the author of the solo production Much Better Now!, which they created in cooperation with the Archa-Centre of Documentary Theatre. The premiere was on May 25, 2024 at the Stodolio theater in Dvakačovice 71.