Theatre is also the place where we come together to share and develop emotions through what we see and hear on stage. The Theatre Department offers training in theatre techniques, allowing the actor to approach this art of the present, of meeting and listening.

By encouraging creativity, we explore the texts of yesterday so that tomorrow's texts can be invented on the basis of classic plays.

Our training is complemented by more individualised stage work sessions and courses or training sessions that open up to other theatrical practices and aesthetics (singing, dance, energy arts), as well as transdisciplinary workshops that bring together students from different departments around different artistic practices: dramatic writing, mask work, puppetry, playwriting and directing.

The course is divided into three amateur training cycles and one specialised cycle. Each cycle, with its precise curriculum, is a flexible period of training that allows students to acquire the expected skills at their own pace.

Learning Theatre is open to all those who wish to discover the art of acting through practice.

COURSE

Through an open approach to theatre, the teacher offers lessons based on the collective practice of acting, on the discovery and practice of the fundamentals of acting (body, voice, space, work with the text). The aim is to develop the acquisition of a collective working spirit, a critical and caring attitude.

WORKSHOP

The workshop allows you to apply the various technical elements covered in the courses to the benefit of creativity, interpretation and play. Unlike the course, the workshop is not a series of exercises, but a space and a time entirely dedicated to a theme or an aspect of poetry, as a whole art that prepares a stage and a theatrical work.

Structure of weekly lessons

Introduction: Sung poetry – from 5 years old – 45 minutes

Preparatory: Poetry and recited texts – from 7 years old – 60 minutes

Module 1: Theatrical expression – from 8 years old – 75 minutes

Module 2: Classical texts and techniques – from 10 years old – 90 minutes

Module 3: Group and personal project – from 15 years old – 120 minutes

Adult lessons – 75 to 90 minutes depending on the number of students

Introductory module: Sung poetry

Through specific exercises, the primary educational objective is to define the meaning of theatre.

This implies that there is a code and rules.

We learn to define the space in which we play, to understand the difference between the moment when we play and the moment when we watch, to accept playing with others and for others, to clarify the difference between playing with friends in everyday life and playing in the theatre with your partners, in front of an audience, without getting caught up in your own game.

This is all about the joy of playing and the knowledge of different techniques. A vocal and physical warm-up is therefore

Module I (elementary): Theatrical expression

In recitation, the child expresses the project of others and his effort is essentially an exercise in translation and interpretation. In improvisation, on the other hand, he starts from a theme and has to invent both what to say and how to say it. It's a moment of creation.

From the beginning of the dramatic game, the student is neither an extra nor a spectator; he becomes an actor and participates in the game with complete confidence.

Language, of course, plays an important role in the practice of theatre (work on the voice, sounds and noises, speaking in situations, etc.). Language is at the heart of theatrical expression.

Module II (medium): Classical texts and techniques

Dramatic play, based on classical texts, helps the child to acquire different skills.

First of all, those of his body, when, for example, he holds back the blows he pretends to give in a fight, or when, in a pantomime, he tries to make a hand, a face or a body expressive. The child who imitates the thief is trying to make his body meaningful, not to escape the thief. This mastery of the body is also a mastery of sensitivity. We distance ourselves from tears by miming crying, we overcome our fears by acting them out.

To give the appearance of emotions, one must neither live them nor imitate them, but find the signs to play them.

By practising seeing and being seen, listening and responding, understanding and being understood, the student acquires mastery of communication with others.

Module III (secondary): Group project and personal project

In this course, participants will develop a group project after completing Modules I and II. Each participant will be advised and supported in their creative approach.

Everyone will have the opportunity, through individualised supervision, to emphasise, if necessary with the agreement of the teachers concerned, the basic discipline of their choice in order to create a collective artistic achievement. This could be a poetic recital, a play, a musical, or something else, with the aim of presenting a show in the form of transdisciplinary paintings.

The purpose of this module is closely linked to the involvement and investment of the participants.