Company Project
Transdisciplinary Physical Theatre Training in Barcelona
The Company Project is a physical theater class with the quality of an artistic training in Barcelona.
It is designed both for those who seek theater training outside of the classic schools and professionals who want to continue learning, as well as for amateurs who want to experience a creative process in a group:
The course will offer you a broad introduction to Transdisciplinary Physical Theatre. In addition, it will provide you with both the practical tools and the theoretical background for the artistic process, from training and concept to showing. The vehicle of learning will be collective investigation and creation, working as group in the way of the theater company. You will find a space which invites you to play, experiment and connect deeply with your own creative potential and expression.
Physical Theatre training
Rehearsal Company Project Berlin
Each Company Project has a specific thematic proposal and methodological approach that you can find in the description of the concrete project further below.
Persons with no prior experience are just as welcome as professionally trained and self-taught artists from all disciplines (acting, dance, acrobatics, music, visual arts...). The course is expressly open to both amateurs and professionals as we have always had very good experiences with this mix over the years, seeing both sides benefit from it.
New Projects
No new projects planned at the moment
Past Company Projects
Company Project OTR@
Theatre Class in Barcelona starting March 2024
During the Company Project OTR@ ("OTHER") we are going to immerse ourselves in a collective process of research and creation that will be based on the play "In the Solitude of Cotton Fields" by Bernard-Marie Koltès:
How to communicate with the OTHER? How to accept their difference? Is there a way to love them? Or is love just another kind of trade, a selfish and cynical exchange? In a world in which differences of all sorts keep human beings in continuous conflicts, is dialogue possible? Is it possible to trust the other, the unknown, the different? Is trust possible?
- Physical Theater training
- Training in emotional expression
- Dramaturgy in motion
- Installation & Body Art
- Improvisation and choreography
- Noh Theater, Butoh
- Physical actions according to Grotowski
- Text and concept work (depending on the piece)
- Translating text into movement
- Time and space as elements of a performance
- Development of the transdisciplinary visual poetic language
Reading
Bernard-Marie Koltès: "In the Solitude of Cotton Fields"
Eugenio Barba: "The Paper Canoe"
Jerzy Grotowski: "Towards a Poor Theatre"
Peter Brook: "The Empty Space"
Working in a group
Final showing
Performance STEPPE / Company Project Berlin
Closed & past Projects
Company Project STEPPENWOLF
Physical Theatre class in Barcelona / Final performance in February!
As a lamb I go through the world, trying to adapt.
Be a good citizen. Accomplish the goals of others.
Without looking at the wolf that I carry inside, that demands that I be myself.
Be authentic. Be free.
During this Company Project we are going to immerse ourselves in the elaboration of a performance based on the novel Steppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse.
Points of study
- Physical Theater training
- Training in emotional expression
- Dramaturgy in motion
- Installation, body art and performance
- Improvisation and choreography
- Noh Theater, Butoh
- Physical actions according to Grotowski
- Text and concept work (depending on the piece)
- Body-based role work
- Development of the visual poetic language
- Working in front of the camera
- Tools for group work
Reading:
H. Hesse: "Steppenwolf"
Further reommended reading: A. Artaud: "The Theatre and Its Double", J. Grotowski: "Towards a Poor Theatre", E. Barba: "The Paper Canoe", P. Brook: "The Empty Space". 
Performance "L´Inferno di Dante", Barcelona 2019
Performance "HamletMachine", Barcelona 2020
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Place
La
Salamandra, Carrer de Burgos, 55, Barcelona-Sants
The current project is full already, but new groups will start soon.
Further information & registration info@samuelnunez.de
Project KING LEAR
Theatre of Objects Intensive Course
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars.
We will immerse ourselves in the elaboration of a transdisciplinary performance focused on the potential and tools of the theater of objects. Our main inspiration will be Shakespeare's "King Lear" .
Main topics
- Physical theater training
- Improvisation and choreography
- Poetry of the object
- Masks
- Hybrid puppets
- Time and space
- Dramaturgy
- Development of visual poetic language
- Emotional expression
- Tools for working in groups
Recommended reading:
W. Shakespeare: "King Lear", J. Grotowski: "Towards a Poor Theatre", P. Brook: "The Empty Space".
Director
Samuel Núñez
Languages
Spanish, English, German (one of those is enough)
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Performance Project Metamorphosis
Physical Theatre Intensive Training
After a certain point there is no return. That's the point we have to reach.
Franz Kafka
During this Performance Project we are going to immerse ourselves in the development of a performance inspired by Kafka's novel The Metamorphosis.
Topics
- Physical Theatre training and techniques
- Improvisation and choreografy
- Noh Theatre, Butoh
- Dramaturgy in movement
- Installation and Body Art
- Text and concept work
- Development of the visual poetic language
- Body based role building
- Physical actions according to Grotowski
- Emotional expression techniques
- Tools for working in groups
Recommended lecture: F. Kafka: "Metamorphosis", A. Artaud: "The Theatre and Its Double", J. Grotowski: "Towards a Poor Theatre", E. Barba: "The Paper Canoe", P. Brook: "The Empty Space"
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Performance Project HamletMachine
Physical Theatre Intensive Training from October 2019
I am not Hamlet. I don’t play a role anymore.
My words have nothing more to tell me. My thoughts suck the blood out of the images. My drama is cancelled.
Behind me the set is being built. By people my drama doesn’t interest, for people it doesn’t concern.
It doesn’t interest me anymore either. I won’t play along anymore.
During this project we are going to immerse ourselves in the development of a performance on the postmodern play Hamletmachine
by Heiner Müller.
Topics
- Physical Theatre Training
- Noh Theatre, Butoh
- Dramaturgy in movement
- Installation and Body Art
- Improvisation and choreografy
- Space and time as elements of theater production
- Transgression of the role and dramatic structure
- Text work based on body and emotion work (not from the point of view of classical theater, but of integral theater, based on laboratory theater work by Jerzy Grotowski)
- Tools for working in groups
Recommended lecture: H. Müller: "Hamletmachine", A. Artaud: "The Theatre and Its Double", J. Grotowski: "Towards a Poor Theatre", E. Barba: "The Paper Canoe", P. Brook: "The Empty Space"
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Performance Project L'inferno di Dante
Physical Theatre Intensive Training from October 2019
"Halfway through life,
I found myself in a dark wood
because my route I had lost. -
Well then, find a guide,
Start to walk
and knock down the door of your hell. "
We will work on a performance based on the classic play "Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri.
Main topics
- Physical theater techniques
- Expressionist work with masks
- The clown in magical realism
- Surralism
- Butoh
- Dramaturgy in motion
- Installation, Body Art
- Video Art
- Tools for group work
Recommended lecture:Dante Alighieri: "Divine Comedy", J. Grotowski: "Towards a Poor Theatre"
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