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Tictac Art Centre
34, Rue Emile Carpentier
1070 Brussels
Belgium

July 13 - 17

Raul "Nene" Vargas Torres

Lines, rivers or bodies
Improvisation Theatre

Doubting is already an impulse, a movement… The workshop takes improvisation a critical and embodied practice to (re)discover, question and expand the boundaries and potentialities of what constitutes the body. A way to access and question, what remains hidden or beneath under forms, concepts, habits or representation.

The workshop proposes different discussions and open instructions (NO score/NO task) based on text, sounds, random objects, relational encounters that invite the participants to research into the friction between what one imagines is happening and what is actually happening; exploring and deeping into the interval between projection and actuality. Performing and being. Affect and being affected. Emotion and movement. Joy and sorrow. Beat and rhythm. River and bodies.
Improvisation is thus understood not as a spontaneous expression, but as practice of awareness to emergence and urgency.

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Raul "Nene" Vargas Torres's biography

"I am a Colombian circus and physical theater-maker, pedagogue and researcher based in Berlin. My artistic work is a (non-recyclable) trashy entanglement of body movement, improvisation, visual arts, traditional circus, and political philosophy.

As a solo performer, director and dramaturg, some of my works have been performed in some birthday parties, random spaces and festivals such as: Katuak Cultural Center, Nuuk (GRL), Suisse Theatertreffen, Zürcher Theater Spektakel (CH), Festival Territori (CH), THEALTER 23 (HU), 1st Palestinian Circus Festival, MasQue (FI), Escenas Do Cambio (ES), Festival l´art est dans la rue (FR), Trakya Kukla Festivali (TK), PlusQ´Il (CH), Festspillene i Nord-Norge, VårsceneFest (NO), Fest of Fools (Berlin, Prague), amongst others.

As a pedagogue I have been teaching in : University of Arts Helsinki (FI), Accademia Dimitri (CH), Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (CZ), Theater Academy (MD) , Palestinian Circus School (PL), Centre culturel Gambidi (BK), Anton Brückner Privatuniversität (AT), among other."

Upcoming workshops

Five people, inspired by David Zambrano, are dancing barefoot in a spacious room with a plain, textured wall. The person in front, wearing a gray shirt and pink pants, smiles with eyes closed while others move freely in the background.
April 13 - 17
David Zambrano
Let's Dance! workshop
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Two people in black tops and loose pants run indoors on a smooth floor, with a gray wall behind them and a metal ladder with green string to the left. The scene reflects the essence of "Speaking Through Movement / Dancing with Words.It's Hendrik Van Maele and Lisa Kraus.
April 20 - 24
Lisa Kraus & Hendrik Van Maele
Speaking Through Movement / Dancing with Words
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A person with short blond hair in a dark shirt poses under a spotlight at the Integrated Dance Theatre Practice in Brussels, dramatic shadows cast against a dark background. It's Jos Baker.
April 27 - 1 May
Jos Baker
Integrated Dance Theatre Practice
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A barefoot person in a white "Improvisation on stage" dress with a colorful abstract print and dark jacket strikes a dynamic dance pose—one arm raised, the other bent—against a plain gray background. It's David Zambrano.
May 4 - 8
David Zambrano
Improvisation on stage
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Discounts*

By reserving in one time 2 or more workshops for the same participant you can get the following discounts:

  • 2 workshops
    10%
  • 3 workshops
    15%
  • 4 or more workshops
    20%
  • 2 same week workshops
    15%

*Discounts only apply for one week or two week workshops. Discounts do not apply for intensive workshops (4 or more weeks).