INFORMATION ABOUT PROJECTS

During the workshop, participants will learn about the company’s way of working. Physical training, working with materials (e.g. paper and clay), animation of objects and materials will be the impetus to begin research around the body and its expressive possibilities.
Participants will experience the physical training that is at the heart of Continuo’s movement research. The aim of the training is to enhance the body’s sensitivity, proprioception and perception of the environment and to achieve a sensitive and highly expressive physicality. The physical training is enriched by working with different materials, allowing the performer to expand his sensitivity and receptivity, to find new and unexpected qualities of movement and to “shake up” his inner world, thanks to the unpredictable offers of the material.

The aim of the workshop is to stimulate an authentic and enriching relationship between body, movement, material and space and to bring to light the multifaceted possibilities of combination and interaction of these stage elements.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

The workshop is designed for actors, performers, dancers, visual artists and musicians, with or without previous theater experience. Interest, energy and perseverance, a willingness to work and share artistic visions in a group, a desire to explore new creative possibilities, to experiment, to offer, to try and to learn are essential.

PRIZE
1 000 Kč for students of DAMU
1 800 Kč for other participants

DATE
monday 19.9.2022 until wednesday 21.9.2022
always 9:30-14:00

PLACE
KALD DAMU, Karlova 26, Praha 1

APPLICATION

Please send your application form, CV, motivation letter (all materials in English) and links to further documentation about your work (not obligatory) to petr@continuo.cz

The application form can be found here

APPLICATION DEADLINE:
30.6.2022

Pavel Štourač

director, stage designer, founder and artistic director of Continuo Theater and teacher.

He graduated in 1993 from the Theater Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts DAMU in Prague, where he studied scenography at the Department of Scenography under the guidance of prof. Albert Pražák, author’s theater under Prof. Ivan Vyskočil and theater anthropology under Dr. Jana Pilátová. In 2012 he completed his doctoral studies at the Department of Theory and Practice of the Theater Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts, DAMU in Prague.
During his studies, he completed internships at the Odin Teatret, Denmark (1989) and Derevo, Russia (1990).
In 1992 he founded the independent theater group Divadlo Continuo with his wife Helena.
He is the author and director of more than 60 theater productions and more than 25 site-specific projects. In all of these projects he also participated as an author and, until 2003, as an actor. Since 2003 he has been fully dedicated to directing, stage design and teaching.
His theatrical activity as a director is quite broad. From puppet theater productions to physical and dance theater projects, street theater or new circus to site-specific theater projects in non-theatre spaces such as old factories, abandoned industrial buildings, historical buildings, open landscapes or trains.
Since 2005 he has been teaching regularly at universities and theater schools in Europe (Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia, Switzerland, Poland).
Since 2010, he has been a member of the teaching staff of the Accademia Teatro Dimitri in Verscio, Switzerland, where he teaches in the Master’s programme in physical theater.
Since 2021 he has been the head of the Department of Figurative Theater of the Master’s programme at Accademia Teatro Dimitri in Verscio, Switzerland.
Under his direction, the company of Continuo Theater has collaborated with several major theater schools, such as the Accademia dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy, and Rose Bruford College in London.
His creative work has been awarded at many theater festivals in the Czech Republic and abroad.

Mgr. Kateřina Šobáňová

Kateřina Šobáňová was born in 1975. After graduating from the grammar school in Zlín, she studied at the Faculty of Education at Masaryk University in Brno (teaching the first grade of primary school with a focus on literature and drama education). Then she graduated from the Theater Faculty at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Department of Educational Drama).
Since 2008 she has been a member of the independent international theater group Divadlo Continuo, which has had its base at the Plum Yard in the village of Malovice in South Bohemia for more than twenty-five years.
During her time at Divadlo Continuo she has been involved in the creation of about twenty performances.
In addition to acting and directing, she also uses her many years of experience gained in working with the body, movement, material, puppet, voice, sound, live music and their overlaps in teaching. As a lecturer for many years she has been conducting workshops for children, students and adults in the Czech Republic and abroad. Since 2020 she has also been the programme director of the artistic, pedagogical and cultural center Plum Yard.

Sean Henderson (USA/CH)

Sean holds an MFA in physical theater from the Accademia dell’Arte (IT) where he studied under a variety of artistic companies including FLIC school of circus in Torino (IT), Founding members of Roy Hart Theater (FR), and Familie Flöz (DE). Sean has worked with Theatre Continuo (CZ) on various projects since 2017. He is currently living and working in an artistic and cultural center, Plum Yard, in South Bohemia (CZ) where he is performing in both new and established Theatre Continuo performances. Previous works include How Things Go with the German company von B bis Z and Suitcase Boarders with the Czech Collective tYhle. Through his background in both sports and theater Sean aims to research the intersections of various movement fields as a pathway and entry point to the world of movement based theater, combining the adaptive and reactive nature of sports with the play and openness of devised theater.