SCUOLA INTERNAZIONALE DI CREAZIONE TEATRALE

 

 

It welcomes students from all over the world, creating an international and multicultural environment.

HELIKOS is a training centre dedicated to the learning and teaching of Theatre Art. As a school it's the place for the practice of a pedagogical journey.

The language of Helikos is theatre: the play of representing life and human experience. In the journey of theatre, Helikos is developing new artistic and pedagogic forms, which are in permanent evolution.

In Helikos’ practice of theatre-making the actor is not only interpreter but also author and director of her/his own work. CREATION is the birth of the world, and the artist recreates the world in each gesture. To create (from the Greek: chreas=flesh) means to give body, and the body is the main instrument of the artist. It allows beauty to become visible.

 

 

Helikos is a Greek word that means SPIRAL. As a symbol, the spiral is common to all ages and cultures and has various meanings, all connected with the dynamic of evolution. The spiral represents the cyclical movement that expands outward from its point of origin and inward towards the center. The spiral expresses extension, cyclical continuity and development, progress in the rotation of creation and perpetual balance between opposite dynamics.
It’s the manifestation of the evolution of a state or a force.

The choice of the spiral as a symbol is connected with the vision of a school and its pedagogy as forms in permanent evolution. The spiral is also a metaphor of the journey of the artist/poet through the training of the school, training that is always connected with its beginning but is projected into the future.

 

 

     

 

Helikos’ purposes are:

- The PROFESSIONAL TRAINING of creative theatre artists: actors, directors, authors and teachers, capable of creating their own work in an autonomous, creative, conscious, vital and durable way, becoming active witnesses and protagonists of the contemporary world and the culture of their time.

- ADVANCED TRAINING of artists, on theatre creation and movement theatre.

- Research, creation and training in THEATRE PEDAGOGY. The meeting between theatre art and other artistic paths, developing new projects in the world of performing, directing, playwriting and artists’ training.

-The development of INTERDISCIPLINAR CONNECTIONS between Theatre and other disciplines and practices: plastic arts, martial arts, philosophy, psychology, therapeutic practices, ecology, spirituality, with the aim of training an innovative "heartist", able to integrate art and consciousness.

First Year: THE INITIATION OF THE POETIC BODY

Awareness of the body in space
Breath awakening and breath’s relationship with the physical energy
Observation and imitation of every day life
Le Jeu:  the non-intentional action
The rules of theatre play: Space, Action/Reaction, Time, Duration, Rhythm and Timing, Crescendo and Fun
Mime of Action: the study of the movement of the human body
The 20 Movements of Jacques Lecoq
Le jeu: play, states of playing and trance
The duality of Neutral Mask and Red Nose and the play of the actor with forms
The Actor’s Body: Neutral Space and Dramatic Space
Clown State and Neutral State
The Neutral Mask: calm presence and the neutral body. The actor serving the theatrical space
The Mimo-Dynamic journey: Dynamic study of nature (elements, animals, materials...) towards theatre creation.
The journey through states of consciousness: the shapeshifting body
Mimo-dynamic approach to arts: (poetry, painting, music)
The dynamic of emotions and human passions
Creation of characters
The play of characters and the “mimo-dynamic wheel of inner movements”
The emergence of Masks in space
Masks and dramatic projection
The voice as a mask of space
Theatrical Characters: the play of follies

 

Treatments of space and time: the emergence of a style
Inquiries on life and its theatrical transposition
The language of gestures: Pantomime and Bandes Mimées
The play of masks: essentialisation and transposition of movements
Masks: forms moving in space
Design and Handcraft of a Full-mask
Full masks: Larval Masks, Naïve Masks, Expressive Masks
From Human Passions to Human Comedy: the playing of the half-masks
The voice of masks: resonators and articulation
The voice of emotions and passions
Design and Handcraft of a Half-mask
Commedia dell'Arte: traditional Italian comedy. Types, lazzi and canovacci
The Red Nose: the Individual Clown
Stage clowns, Circus clowns and Street clowns
A clown variety show

 

Storytellers
Melodrama and Melo-mime: the telling of emotions and the play of "les grands sentiments"
The choral storytelling
From Neutral Mask to Tragedy: the Chorus and the Hero
The hero’s cycle: individual drama, fight against destiny, death and catharsis
Satiric Drama and Bouffons: the play of mocking
Satyrs, Fools and Lunatics
Grotesque characters
Creatures of Fantasy and Mystery
Comic theatre: the Burlesque, the Eccentric, the Absurd, Comic Characters
Presentation of Individual Projects
Creation project on devising a show
Diploma thesis

 

 

 

 

 

The programme proposes different courses of study

PHYSICAL PRACTICE
These classes involve practical work with the body, to train, develop and refine the physical awareness, abilities, skills and techniques of the students.
- Martial Arts
- Physical Preparation and Elements of Acrobatics
- Movement Analysis and Movement Technique
- Voice training

POETIC PRACTICE
Classes that engage in the practice of exploration, creation and transposition in theatrical languages.
- Improvisation
- Playwriting
- Theatre Creation

CONSCIOUSNESS WORK
All throughout the journey, these classes support the students in deepening their awareness of their personal processes of self-discovery and self-transformation. This involves group work and individual sessions.
- Pedagogy of initiation: elements of Gestalt, Bioenergetics, Deep Psychology, Process Work (Process Oriented Psychology) and Transanalysis
- The dynamic of inner movements: the inner journey of the actor

CRAFTING
Practical workshop that deals with the study of movement in space, towards the making of Masks, Costumes and Sets.
-Laboratory of studying of forms
-Mask-Making
-Costumes creation

PHYSIOSOPHY: Physical Philosophy
Theoretical classes that give the cultural background of the training, in the form of intensive seminars and some lecture classes.
-Elements of Anthropology, Epystemology and Ecology related to theatre.
-Elements of Theatre History

 

 

 

CALENDAR

The training takes place over three years, in three semesters of 24 weeks each.

This is the calendar of the 2010/2013 training.

First year:     October 18th- 2010-April 29th 2011
Second-year: October 17th 2011-April 28th  2012
Third-year:   October 15th 2012-April 26th  2013

Enrollment for the season 2010-2013 (October 2010-June 2013) is closed.

Next availble training will start in October 2011.

 

For detailed information about the school, faculty, the application procedures and the tuition, you can visit the new web site:

www.helikos.com

 

 

 

 

Helikos is the evolution of KIKLOS, the international school that operated in Padua, Italy, between 2000 and 2004.
To know more about the Kiklos experience please visit 

www.scuolakiklos.com