Scenographic Performance Laboratory: Bauhaus/Lecoq - Workshop

Scenographic Performance Laboratory: Bauhaus/Lecoq

A workshop to explore the experimental scenographic performance pedagogies of Jacques Lecoq and the Bauhaus in response to the architectural site, 102 Upper Street.

Emma Wagstaff of Emballage Ensamble will be facilitating a workshop, which explores the intersection of the experimental scenographic performance pedagogies of Oskar Schlemmer’s Bauhuas Theatre and Jacques Lecoq’s L.E.M. (Laboratory for the Study of Movement) in response to the architectural site, 102 Upper Street. We will explore the three fundamental principles of space, form and colour, and investigate the different and overlapping ways that each pedagogy approaches these elements. We will be researching and responding to the dynamic of the architectural space through our bodies, through mark-making and through the creation of structural forms using simple materials.

Workshop facilitator: Emma Wagstaff, Emballage Ensemble

I am a scenographer, performance maker and art historian excited by the convergence of the three. I make formally-innovative, research-driven projects often led by materials. I am co-artistic director of the theatre company, Emballage Ensemble. I facilitate performance making workshops and also teach art history in museums and galleries around Europe. I hold a BA in History of Art from University College London, an MFA in Advanced Theatre Practice from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and I trained on the experimental scenography course (LEM) at the Jacques Lecoq School in Paris.

Host or Publisher Side/Step Festival