« Where danger grows, that which saves also grows. » Friedrich Hölderlin

The theatre is an ancient tool. Far from being merely a space of representation, theatre can also be experienced as a laboratory for exploring other ways of acting. It is not a place of “pretending,” but a place of experience and truth. A place where human beings can rekindle the mystery of being a living body, on the threshold between the visible and the invisible. Together with Gestalt therapist Marie José de Aguair, we will explore this form of intelligence that might be called organicity. By cultivating presence to oneself, to others, and to the environment, we will attend to what emerges in the present moment, at the boundary of contact.

When a human being connects with this organic current, their way of being changes. It is no longer the mind that commands while the body obeys: sensation, emotion, awareness, and action recover their continuity. The actor – that is, the human being in action – is often the first to be surprised: it is me, and at the same time it is something beyond me. One experiences being fully oneself while also being deeply connected with others. Through an exploration of the body, the voice, and relationship, these workshops invite participants to cultivate their capacity for attention and to allow themselves to be transformed by experience.

THEATRE AND GESTALT

Series of courses directed by Marie José de Aguiar
In collaboration with Luca Giacomoni

On the body
From 18 to 23 August 2024, at the Hameau de l’Etoile
Route du Frouzet, 34380 Saint-Martin-de-Londres

From ‘I’ to ‘We
From 20 to 25 August 2023, at the Hameau de l’Etoile
Route du Frouzet, 34380 Saint-Martin-de-Londres

Phenomenology and the art of the stage
From July 2022 to July 2024, at the Gestalt IFFP Paris
231 rue Paul Doumer 78510 Triel-sur-Seine