Kìklos Pedagogy:
THE JOURNEY OF
THE ACTOR-CREATOR
Theatre is PLAY and play is FUN.
Imitation, transposition and re-invention of the world.
It's a very ancient human expression, based on fun and rigour.
Kìklos vision of theatre is RIGOROUS FUN
It's the place where life is represented, celebrated and transformed.
The Actor-Creator is a poet that enters the journey of discovering the world,
and makes the world beauty visible, through poetical forms.
He is the poet of ecstasy.
To follow this vision Kìklos Pedagogy works in four parallel directions:
The BODY is considered as the first area of knowledge and sensitivity of the theatre artist and the foundation for theatrical language. The experience and study of the body moving in space leads to the progressive discovery of the laws of movement and of artistic creation.
An important reference is the Theatre Pedagogy of Jacques Lecoq. Many of Kìklos teachers have been students, assistants or teachers at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris.
PEDAGOGY OF PLAY
Play (le jeu) exists when the rigour of technique meets the pleasure of the artist. The actors represents and reinvents the world, revealing its poetic richness. The playing actor is the “Homo Ludens”.
He works with rigorous fun.
The Actor is the Creator of his own work.
Kìklos Pedagogy aims to give the students the tools that will make them capable to develop their own voice. The School is a place of research and practice, where the world is recreated every day, and the pleasure of learning and teaching provokes the students to develop their own unique, poetic identity and theatrical folly. Both teachers and students serve the creative process.
The regular meeting with an audience is the final step of the creation process.
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The programme of the School is a journey that begins with the study of the movement in life and leads to the understanding of its transposition in the artistic process.
The actor, poet and creator, works every day to refine and develop his perception of reality, and to train his expressive tools. In the quest for the neutral space and the gestures, he needs to meet and transform his inner world, to turn it into a conscious instrument for poetry. In the journey at the discovery of the world, the artist meets himself in a new way.
For this reason Kìklos proposes a journey on the awareness of the actor, to make him able to work consciously with his personal powers: emotions, life experiences, visions and desires. Kìklos Pedagogy integrates in an organic and creative way Gestalt, Taoist Martial Arts, Bioenergetic and the work on Altered States of Consciousness (Contemporary Shamanism).
