Our Actions
The TPM Lab
A Moving Lab for Performances & Philosophy
Here’s our actions in different structures (schools, hospitals, associations, bars, etc…), as an association:
There are two ways we’re interested in => the self-development way and the artistic way, because we believe theater can help us to discover our body, our life, our relationships and our world, and we believe art is a link between people.
So we like to think everybody is actor or artist, and that art is everywhere.
Generally we use Stanislavsky Acting Method to work on energies, body, feelings, space, connection to others, etc… The workshop can be a discovery of our mankind, and we can make a performance to finish it. We like to adapt ourself to people and spaces we meet, so we can make a performance in streets, forest, bar, generally not in theater but where life is, with the audience… We have some knowledge about Grotowsky body method and Augusto Boal method, to organise performances with body and without text, or forum theater for debating about a social problem.
We want to increase our knowledge about yoga, voice, dance, traditional performances all over the world, …
We like to discover traditional theater in countries we visit and we integrate some traditional elements in our performances to brake the tradition and to connect our modern society with the sacred part of human beings (for example, we’re actually adapting traditional Korean masks to a modern version of Dom Juan by Moliere, with Korean students in french…).
If people are interested, we try to mixed philosophical text (international texts) and theatrical exercises, to develop mind and body… We think relaxation can help us to think more clearly and to feel better with our body. So during a theater workshop, we have some brakes to debate about an idea, a text, a social problem.
We think people don’t know enough things about theater or philosophy (and Tarot), so we like to initiate them and to create links between us… We don’t like to work with professional actors, but why not if they are not focused on their ego… We don’t work for money, we need just the minimum: we do theater and philosophy because we like life and meeting people… We don’t like money and social rules: we believe in life, in something more essential… Theater and philosophy must be connected to the real life, to our social problems and existential questions.
Our way to direct people during a performance is freedom: we like that actors goes into the audience, we don’t like to be directive so we learn how to listen others with all our senses, and to feel energy seems to me the most important.
When we direct, we use a lot of exercises to develop skills, to understand the energies of the play, but we’re totally not focused on the text… and sometimes, we don’t use plays.
If you can find motivated people to create a group, if you know some crazy places in your country to play, if you like poetry, dream, life, emotions and madness, let’s go!!! Give us some information to begin to imagine this project and life will create the situation…
The TPM Lab proposes formations, conferences, directions, workshops , performances,… in every places (associations, schools, hospitals, prisons, bars, restaurants, …).
If you want to work with us, here’s our contact: thetpmlab@gmail.com
Because Theater and Philosophy are everywhere and for everybody: it’s a link between us!
Latcho drom!
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