Master Class for Performers on the ©In-Balance Method with Mariana Araoz

Master Class for Performers on the ©In-Balance Method with Mariana Araoz

Wednesday 1st May from 14:00 - 17:00 hrs MASTER CLASS in Lund open to all performers, theatre-makers, dancers, actors, musicians, perfoming artists, circus artists, even beginners.

ABOUT MARIANA ARAOZ

Mariana Araoz, professor of mask at Teaterhögskolan Malmö, Artistic Director of TMR Sverige, and Artistic Director of Maison de l'Equilibre du Genre and Collectif Masque/TMR Paris, will be giving a three-hour master class on the ©In-Balance Method at Stenkrossen black box space (Svarta Lådan) on 1st May 2024. The class will be held in English. From 14:00 - 17:00 hrs.

(Stenkrossen is a "kulturhus" with its own black box theatre space, a 15 minute walk from Lund Central Station.)

After class there is the possibility to purchase Mariana's book on her ©In Balance Method which was published in France last year and launched at Danscentrum Syd in Malmö this year.


ABOUT THE METHOD

The ©In-Balance Method is a method Mariana implements throughout her work as theatre-maker, actor, writer, director and drama pedagogue; currently taught by Mariana in drama schools all over the world, based on her 30 plus years of drama and teaching experience.

Mariana specializes in gender balance, puppetry and mask, as well as object theatre. With her two companies in Sweden and France, she produces and directs plays, movies, conferences and workshops using the Mask and Puppets technique, creating a unique gender-fluid, peace and equality theater form.
The focal points of the ©In-Balance Method are:

-Transmission of knowledge on stage

-Service on stage

-Balance of power onstage and offstage

The In-Balance Method is thus aimed at finding balance within the theater space, the stage, the performers, the group and the audience. At its core, this method invokes an equal amount of power distribution. The story and its leading characters are brought to life by the ‘servants of the stage’, through mask and puppet configurations. Mariana Araoz has created this storytelling form and named it: THE FLYING BIRDS.

ABOUT THE CLASS
The 3-hour class will cover:

- the In-Balance Method

- Flying Birds storytelling

- the birth of a mask character

For attendees, please:

• be prepared to move around in the room
• wear comfortable clothes you can move in physically, come dressed all in black
• bring a water bottle.

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MORE ABOUT MARIANA ARAOZ:

Mariana Araoz is an Argentinian-Venezuelan-French biologist, performer, theater director, producer, and pedagogue. Araoz has dedicated more than 30 years to the Art of Masks, Object theatre and Puppetry, as well as 15 years dedicated to the study of Gender and Ecology within the field of theater and community social work.

Mariana divides her time between Paris and Malmö. Born in Buenos Aires, raised in Venezuela, Canada and Germany, she arrived in France at the age of 22. She has a Master's in Biology and Environmental Management from The University of Rennes II and a Bachelor's in Theater Studies from the Sorbonne Nouvelle.

She has performed as a mask actress and a puppet player in more than 40 mask and puppet productions. As a director she has staged plays in Sweden, France and the United States. In Sweden she has directed for Skillinge Teater, Teater Halland, Sagohuset, Insite, Spect, Thales Theater. In 2014, she was nominated for the Thalia Prize for her staging of Chekhov's “The Seagull” at Skillinge Teater. She is winner of the "Avignon-Off" prize in 2017 for the play "Dissection of a snowfall" in its French version. Paris Pantheon and UNESCO have selected her latest creation “Mission In Visible” in France. She is today considered one of the greatest experts in her field.

As a pedagogue, Mariana has taught at Ecole de Jeu Paris since 2009, as well as at Conservatoire National Superieure d’Art Dramatique (Paris), Columbia University (New York), Carlton College (Northfield), The Institute Boris Schoukin (Moscow), The National Theater Institute (Hong Kong).

She has been a guest professor and scholar at St. Olaf College in Minneapolis (2002- 2012) and has been guest professor at Malmö Theater Academy/Teaterhögskolan Malmö (a part of Lund University) since 2013.

Since 2006 Mariana has been the Artistic Director of the French theatre company Collectif Masque and since 2016 of Swedish company Trans Mission Research/TMR Sverige, specializing in gender balance, puppetry and mask creation in cross-border, multidisciplinary movement-based theatre combining voice, actors, text, dancers, music, performers and elements of puppetry and mask.