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14th Summer Workshop in Real time composition with Mark Tompkins & Maxime Dupuis July 12 to 22, 2015 in Arbecey, Franche-Comté r

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14th Summer Workshop in Real time composition with Mark Tompkins & Maxime Dupuis July 12 to 22, 2015 in Arbecey

14th Summer Workshop in Real time composition
with Mark Tompkins & Maxime Dupuis
July 12 to 22, 2015 in Arbecey, Franche-Comté region, France

 

An intensive ten days workshop, open to experienced performers and/or musicians
interested in confronting their practices in a natural environment.
Profiting from the setting of Arbecey and its environment,
we will work inside as well as outside.
Bring clothes and shoes that you don’t mind getting dirty.

 


ABC summer workshop

Since 2002, Mark Tompkins and Jean-Louis Badet organize summer workshops in Arbecey, a small village in the Franche Comté region in the east of France. The rustic living conditions – sharing rooms and cooking together – creates a collective atmosphere that stimulates the work in the studio as well as excursions in the surrounding woods and fields.
« Working in nature has significantly modified my transmission of the apprenticeship of the senses and perceptions. In the studio, we often have the impression of fabricating emotions and states, whereas outside, everything is concrete. It seems enough to listen, look and touch in order to hear, see and feel. Remains the most arduous task – to transform and practice these discoveries in the abstract space of the studio. » M.T.


Audible movement, Visible sound


The practice of Real time composition
is fundamentally the same for dancers and musicians. The major differences lie in the use of the body – the instrument - and in the motivation to act. For a dancer, the body is the instrument and the primary motivation is to create movement, in other words, to be seen. For a musician, the body in its relationship to an object is the instrument and the primary motivation is to create sound, in other words, to be heard. Mark Tompkins and Maxime Dupuis investigate the similarities and differences between their respective points of view, emphasizing and playing with the zones of crossover and contamination.



Mark Tompkins

When improvising, each performer is working simultaneously on many different levels of perception: listening, watching, sensing, acting, reacting to one's self and one's partners. The art of Real time composition resides in each performer’s ability to remain open to the wealth of internal and external impulses, and to receive, process and propose material in an uninterrupted flow of feedback. How to avoid overload, how to stay actively attentive, othing and still act? These questions are addressed through a series of improvisational games and scores that explore and develop the sensations and perceptions – touch, vision, hearing, weight. To sharpen our inner and outer concentration, we explore the notions of shift, letting go, simultaneous time, active/passive, center/support and the roles of performer, witness and spectator.



Maxime Dupuis

How to enrich your personal language by sharing and confronting your personal vocabulary with others? We will explore the visual potential of music and the sound potential of movement by practicing the tools of Elementary unity and rhythm, as well as emptiness and silence. An improvisational approach will guide the sessions for both musicians and dancers. Bring your instruments, your bodies and your voices.

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Mark Tompkins

American theatre director, choreographer and teacher creates the Company I.D.A. in 1983. His unique way of fabricating unidentified performance objects has become his signature. Solos, group pieces, concerts and performances that mix dance, music, voice, video and text are steps of this journey initiated in the 70’s, and with the complicity of the set and costume designer Jean-Louis Badet since 1988. His passion for Real time composition leads him to collaborate with many dancers, musicians, light designers and video makers. His recent performances evolve towards musical theater, inspired by music hall, cabaret, vaudeville, burlesque and musical comedy. In 2015, he creates LE PRINTEMPS at the Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis. In 2008, he receives the SACD Choreography Prize for all his work.



Maxime Dupuis

He studies cello in Nimes, and new music at the ISDAT in Toulouse with Denis Badault. His passion for contemporary music leads him to play improvised, electronic, oriental, fusion and free jazz, developing a solid personal language. He shares the stage with writers, choreographers, dancers, performers and musicians: Espace Temps Matière (Tom Gareil, Damien Fadat), Didier Labbé, Roberto Tricarri, Michel Butor, David el Malek, Pierre Diaz, Ali Alaoui, trio Zerphi. Composer, he creates with ETM the music for the Clamouse Cavern, the Mare Nostrum Aquarium and exhibitions at Pompidou Center (Aurélie Nemours, IRCAM; atelier Mondrian; retrospective Hans Bellmer), and at the Palais de Tokyo. He teaches cello at the School for new music in Toulouse andgives master classes at the Sorbonne.



Mark Tompkins and Maxime Dupuis
met in 2012 in Toulouse. Since then, they collaborate with the collective FIRE ! - an ensemble of musicians and dancers devoted to Real time composition in performance.


application
Workshop from Sunday, July 12 to Wednesday, July 22 included

Duration: 10 days - 6h / day - 60h (+ one day off) Number of participants: 16
Plan to arrive the day before (Saturday, July 11) and leave the day after the workshop (Thursday, July 23)
Because of its progressive nature, you must follow the entire workshop.


Where: Ancienne Fromagerie, 2 rue des Charmes, 70120 ARBECEY, Tel +33 (0)3 84 92 15 97
By train to Vesoul (we transport you to Arbecey)
By car: N19 (Paris-Bâle) to Combeaufontaine, Arbecey is 5 km to the north



Price: 400€

Workshop payment must be made as soon as we confirm your participation:
- By bank transfer to the order of Association I.D.A. Send 400€ (+ bank charges paid by you).
- By check to the order of Association I.D.A. Send 2 checks of 200€ each (total 400€), cashed at the end of the workshop.
- If you desist less than one week before the workshop we keep 200€ and send 200€ back to you.



Housing: 100€
Housing payment must be made upon your arrival in Arbecey, by cash or check to the order of SCI ABC, cashed at the end of the workshop.



Food (collective meals): 120€
Food payment will be made upon arrival in Arbecey, in cash.

 

Please send a letter of motivation, CV and photo:
by e-mail: ida.mark@wanadoo.fr by the post: Cie I.D.A. - 2 ter Passage de Clichy, 75018 Paris
Information: +33 (0)1 43 87 74 07
Absolute closing date for the application: June 15, 2015
You will receive a definitive answer three weeks before the workshop
Possibility to receive individual financial support from AFDAS, you must make the demand.
Possibility to pay in several installments, if you pay by check.
 
 
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