NEUTRAL MASK: Physical Theatre Workshop

Name: NEUTRAL MASK: Physical Theatre Workshop
Start: 2025-11-07T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-11-09T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Αλλήλων Κέντρο Χορού & Μουσικής,Έρευνα-Σύμπραξη τεχνών

Schedule

Fri, 07 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm to Sun, 09 Nov, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Αλλήλων Κέντρο Χορού & Μουσικής,Έρευνα-Σύμπραξη τεχνών | Athens, AT

NEUTRAL MASK ~ “An invitation of awakening”
An invitation of awakening not only the body but also it's “imagination”.
An invitation of rejoining not only with the inner core but also with the authentic intuitive self.
An invitation of transformation through a ritual, a rite, a mythological journey.
The seminar addresses itself to actors, dancers,puppeteers, therapists, educators or any person is interested in exploring new paths of expression and their creative potentials.
Schedule:
Friday 07th of NOVEMBER 19:00-22:30
Saturday 08th of NOVEMBER 10:00-16:30
Sunday 09th of NOVEMBER 10:00-17:00
Total: 17 hours
Language: English
**We are going to use Neutral Masks made by Alfredo Iriarte
Cost: 145 euro (VAT included)
Places are limited to 12 participants.
Booking is essential until 15th of October 2025
For booking & information,please contact:
[email protected]
Venue: Αλλήλων~Κέντρο Χορού & Μουσικής
Έρευνα- Σύμπραξη τεχνών
Νευροκοπίου 18,Κεραμεικός (έξοδος Κωνσταντινουπόλεως)
The Neutral mask invites us to look, to listen, to smell and to feel the world as it was for the first time. It reveals to us the power that is hidden in the absolute present, the here and now! It's the mask that allows us to take out all the rest of our “masks”.
Lecoq, as the inspirator of the Neutral Mask, said that: “it's the mask that helps us feel the neutral condition, that goes before action, a situation of acceptance of everything that surrounds us, without any inner conflict.”
It's an experience-based seminar focused on motion, aiming on exploring the multiple different layers of the “body”. Basic creative principles: the embodiment, the artistic individualization and the unique nature of the person. We will work on “dreamlike” images, corporal impulses, inner sceneries and archetypal dynamics. We will develop our creative intuition, our playful mood and we will acquire deeper body awareness. We will use the power of the mask to dive into the corporal memory that is liberated from the confinements of our mind. Moreover, during this procedure of exploring the different layers in our Poetic Body, we will use the the tools of Guiding Drawing with carbon on white paper and the exercises of energetic imagination.
The combination, the assimilation and the experience-based application of all of those I have been taught by the pedagogical paths of LISPA (London International School of Performing Arts) and especially my Master there led me to the creation of this journey of discovering the “poetics” of our body through the Neutral Mask.

Gozde ATALAY is a physical theater facilitator,director and actress born in Turkey and based in Athens. She’s been performing since 2000 and graduated from the department of Theater Criticism and Dramaturgy of Istanbul University in 2004. As a clown, she first trained in 2009 at EMCA (Municipality Circus School) in Spain, also engaging actively with other circus techniques and in 2011-2012 she taught in the social circus school for children “Cabuwazi” in Berlin.As a physical theater performer, she studied with Hernan Gene and Gabriel Chame Buendia at “Chame and Gene Estudios Teatrales" in Madrid and with Thomas Prattki at London International School of Performing Arts, where she completed the new full-time professional development program (IMPP 2014-2015) with a scholarship.She’s also trained with Mario Gonzalez, Giovanni Fusetti, Matej Matejka and Patrick Van Den Boom. She’s performed in Berlin Ballhaus Ost 2018 & London Camden`s People Theatre in the performance ''No Way Out'' with the company Flight of Escales, 2017 Santander Mujeres Que Cuentan Festival "Queens", in the 3rd Storytelling Festival of Athens 2016 " Upside Down'' Nasreddin Hodja Tales, in the International Theater Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2014 “A Quiet Voice”, in Berlin ZirCouplet-Variete Shows 2012 & 2013, on a street performance for the Berlin International Carnival of Cultures Festival 2012 and a number of other performances. She is currently working with the company La Volada on a new show. Since 2006, she has been living and working in several countries, where she is performing, directing and teaching in various international projects.
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