Oslo Community Theatre in collaboration with Eleni Riga-Johansen have the great pleasure and honor to bring to you a three-day workshop with Odin Teatret’s legendary actress and instructor Roberta Carreri.
Carreri will be bringing to Oslo her training method “The Dance of Intentions”, which is relevant to actors, performers, dancers and theatre pedagogues.
The workshop will be divided into two parts. The first part will concentrate on the actor’s physical training — on the awakening of the actor’s presence. The second part will focus on the work with the voice, comprising exercises that awaken different sonority of the voice and develop the capacity to make vocal actions in the space.
The aim of the workshop is to transmit, in a relatively short period of time, the basis of an actor’s training that can help the young actors, performers and dancers to discover their scenic presence through the exploration of a formalized scenic behavior; and theexperienced actors to provide a way to free themselves of their performing automatism, their own clichés.
The workshop will focus on the perception of your own presence in relation to the space and to the other actors on stage and find ways of how one can be present in the action one is doing and at the same time be ready to react. The workshop will also focus on how to find the axes of your body, how to work with the “in-tensions” and in which way we achieve a dynamic immobility. We will explore different qualities of energy of the gaze and learn how to identifydifferent points of the body where the impulse that will lead one in space starts. We will work with the creation of physical and vocal actions, and how to realize them with different qualities of energy. And finally, the workshop will also focus on the aspect of vocal training with several body resonators and the relations between vocal and physical actions.
All participants are kindly required to wear comfortable clothes and memorize a text of their choice of approximately 20 lines.
When: 19, 20, 21st
Where: Scenehuset: Bogstadveien 49
Deadline for application submission: April 28th
Participation fee: 2000 nok
Kindly fill out the application form and send it to
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C.V.
Roberta Carreri is an actor, teacher, writer, and organiser. She was born in 1953 in Milan, Italy, where she graduated in Advertising Design and studied History of Art at the Milan State University. She joined Odin Teatret in 1974 during the group’s stay in Carpignano, Italy. Roberta Carreri has taken part in ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology) since its beginning in 1980, coming into contact with performing techniques from Japan, India, Bali and China. This has influenced her work as an actress and teacher. From 1980 to 1986 she studied with Japanese masters such as Katsuko Azuma (Nihon Buyo dancer), Natsu Nakajima and Kazuo Ohno (Butoh dancers). She gives workshops for actors all over the world and presents, as a work demonstration, her professional autobiography, Traces in the Snow. She organisedand led the annual international workshop Odin Week Festival in Holstebro and abroad, from 1989 to 2022.
In 2009 she directed Rumor with Cinzia Ciaramicoli for MasakiniTheatre Company (Malaysia). In 2014 The Woman Who Spat Out the Apple, with Rosa Antuña – Núcleo de Criaçao Rosa Antuña(Brazil). In 2015 Nido Vacio with Carolina Pizarro and Giulia Varotto – a coproduction Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium/Regula Teatro (Denmark/Italy). In 2023 Honey Badger with Jaray Benko - a coproduction Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium/ Juraj Benko (Denmark/Slovakia).
Her professional experiences are presented in The Actor’s Way, edited by Erik Exe Christoffersen, Memories that will not die – Roberta Carreri in Flowers for Torgeir by Annelis Kuhlmann, published in Il castello di Elsinore and Finding Kokoro through the Eyes: Butoh in Roberta Carreri’s Work and Pedagogy by Simone Dragone, published in Pamiętnik Teatralny,
Roberta Carreri has written her own book Tracce (published in 2007 by Edizioni Il Principe Costante,
Milano (in Italian); in 2012 by Editora Perspectiva, Brazil (in Portuguese) and Ed. Artezblai, Spain; and Triskel Artes Escénicas, Chile (in Spanish); in 2013 by El Apuntador Ediciones, Argentina (in Spanish); and Titivillus (in Italian); in 2014 by Routledge, UK/USA (in English), in which she relives the most relevant aspects of her theatre life – her training, pedagogy and her story as an actress of Odin Teatret. Her articles have been published in journals such as New Theatre Quarterly, Teatro e Storia, Máscara, The Open Page, Peripeti and Performance Research.
Performances: The Book of Dances, Come! And the Day will be Ours, Anabasis, The Million, Brecht's Ashes, The Gospel According to Oxyrhincus, Judith, Kaosmos, Inside the Skeleton of the Whale, Ode to Progress, Mythos, Salt, Great Cities under the Moon, Andersen’s Dream, Don Giovanni all'Inferno, Ur-Hamlet, The Chronic Life, The Tree, Flowers for Torgeir, Thebes at the Time of the Yellow Fever.
And Flowers for Torgeir, a Roberta Carreri/ Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium CO-Production.
Performances with Theatrum Mundi’s ensemble: Ur-Hamlet, Four Poems for Sanjukta, Ego Faust, The Island of Labyrinths
Performance Demonstrations: Traces in the Snow, Whispering Winds, Dialogue between two Actors, Letter to the Wind, Nora's way.
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