WORLD MAP
Collective performance with students and young artists from different disciplines, final work of a course on visual theatre. Open format work that adapts to the place and the participants. A workshop that starts with collective questions and ends with personal answers. What could be our image of the world? which is yours? Exploring great ideas with humor.
A World Map is an image of the world observed with a precise look, which attends to only one aspect: territory, climate, vegetation, politics, economy or perhaps happiness, health, poverty, death. It is a reading of the world, a partial idea about a global whole. In this sense, "Mapamundis" could also be certain images about the globality as the Buddhist Mandala, the Mayan Calendar, the Medieval Tapestry of the Creation, the Songs of the Dreaming Time of the Australian aborigines , the Theater of the Memory of the Renaissance. And perhaps some images of our time: Google Earth, the Inmarsat satellite network, the Wall Street stock market screens or just the www.
In Mapamundi-Sonrisa Joan Baixas proposes to invent many world maps, personal world maps, with the look of humor. The wonderful, healthy and refreshing look of His Majesty the King Humor with his joyful court The Burla, the Grotesque, The Laughter.
A day without laughter is like a general without a horse, a day with laughter is like a horse without a general (Chinese proverb of the Ctxhop-Zuhey dynasty).
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HOW TO MAKE MAPAMUNDI - SMILE:
It is an Introduction to Visual Theater Workshop, for students and artists interested in the fusion of the rhetoric and grammar of artistic languages. A course for the practice and analysis of the resources and tools necessary to create scenes with bodies, images and objects and how to present them to the public. As a fundamental part of the workshop, the experience ends with an outdoor presentation to the public.
Development of the project
Stage 1 (virtual).
The participants receive information, via email, with extensive documentation on the realizations of previous shows and are invited to start generating their own ideas on the subject.
Stage 2 (face-to-face).
A course of twenty-five hours of collective work where some tools of the Visual Theater are investigated: theatrical possibilities of technology, adaptation to space, speed in conception and execution, sum of personal initiatives.
The exercises that are practiced are not aimed at the acquisition of techniques but rather focus directly on the content of what you want to show, on the emotions, messages or experiences that you want to share (with a sense of humor, of course).
Through exercises with materials and images, personal numbers are created on the subject of the World Map.
Stage 3 (face-to-face)
Presentation of the open air show, open to the public, in three acts:
Act One: choreography of objects with the collaboration of all participants.
Second Act: small variety numbers with puppets, objects, image projection, gestural interpretation, dance, painting or other techniques, created and selected by the participants during the course.
Act Three: making a huge painting on canvas with the collaboration of all the participants. This canvas is suspended in the street as the final image of the show.
Stage 4 (virtual).
Videos, photos, texts and other materials from the course-show are posted online as suggestions for future participants.
Technical aspects
About the participants:
Around fifteen people. It is convenient for the course to be made up of people from various disciplines (puppets, dance, plastic arts, interpretation, image technologies, music). Likewise, it is also interesting that students, professionals and amateurs mix.
Participants must bring their instruments, cameras, computers or painting materials. They will also bring their work clothing in white fabric to be painted.
The admission of participants will close ten days before the start.
Technical requirements of the course:
A work room of 50 m2. approximately, which can be a classroom, a rehearsal room, a workshop, an empty factory or a sports facility.
A smaller space for storing materials and instruments.
A third space, outdoors, for the presentation to the public. A point must be found for the suspension of the fabric (approximately 10m. high)
Sound equipment in the work room and in the performance space for use with various sources (mp3, CD, personal computer).
Various work tables of undetermined measures.
Simple kit of tools and materials for cutting, gluing and painting paper and wood.
The presentation to the public is made in daylight, so no lighting equipment is required.