Urban Performing Arts

UAB Barcelona Summer School

15 Urban Performing Arts - Rita Kuan

Number of credits: 6 European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS)
Course Fee: 850 €
Course Fee for UAB students and Alumni UAB Premium+ : 200 €
Teaching Language: English
Place: UAB Campus Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Barcelona
Teaching Period: 21 June to 09 July, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Registration of international and national students (non-UAB students) before May 16 will get 20% discount.  

Enrolment guidelines

Contact: summer@uab.cat

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The UAB aims is to provide this course on-site. However, we are also prepared to switch to online-only mode when governmental restrictions are introduced or in place because of the current Covid-19 pandemic. Due to this uncertain situation, we will announce the approach and interaction forms concerning this course at a later stage in 2021 (June-July).

 

PROFESSOR BIO INFORMATION

 

Jaume Bernadet Munnè is an actor, script writer, writer of the screenplay, creative artistic director is specialized in  the direction of shows with collective participation. He has been leading, directing and often presenting as Master of Ceremonies various artistic activities of Comediants all over the world: theatre, audiovisual works, movies, TV, macro shows and special events like the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games of Barcelona ' 92. He has carried out different pedagogic projects to transmit the unique artistic language invented by Comediants, with conferences, international workshops, artistic residences and performances such as the International Street Theater Course for FAI AR (Formation Avancée Itinerant des Arts de la Rue Marseille, France).

Rita Kuan (Jin Hua) Theatre artist: actress, assistant direction, creation and artistic production, ideation, design and realization of exhibitions, books, objects, story boards for shows and other theatrical events, she studied up until the fifth year of architecture in Florence.  Since 1979 she’s a member of the theatre group “Comediants“, participating creatively in all their artistic productions: theatre, movies, TV, macro shows and special events like the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games of Barcelona ' 92, different pedagogic activities to transmit the special artistic language invented by Comediants with international workshops, artistic residences, performances like “Architecture and ephemeral spaces”, for ELISAVA and UPC of Barcelona.

  • Department: Comediants Theatre Group
  • E-mail: met@comediants.com, produccio@comediants.com

 

ACADEMIC GUIDE      

Contents overview

The main objective is to give the participants tools to understand the different aspects of artistic creation and scenic art in public spaces. Urban Performing Arts is a mostly practical course for which attendance is required each day, in order to realize a final live and direct street performance.
 

The course has two branches:

  1. Propaedeutics: 
  • Comediants inventors of a new language: daily sessions of 1 1/2 hours. Analysis of the scenic arts used from Comediants in their urban and outdoor shows and of urban artistic forms developed by others artists and contemporary companies. We will analyze the value of the artistic utilization of the public space, as agora, as a space of contact, coexistence, integration; the structure of some collective acts in open-air, meetings, mass manifestation that recently are appearing all over the world and their relationship with the festive drama, the use of  plasticity elements, music, scenography, song, rituals, as elements of social cohesion, sharing and collective participation.

 

  1. Process of creation of an urban Performance: The ages of life. Daily sessions of 2 ½ hours of collective physical work with a final performance to present in an urban space. 

 

Week programme

Urban Performing Arts
 Week   Contents Teaching/learning activities
1
  • Propaedeutics:
    • Comediants inventors of a new language: From the popular root theatre to the Opera. The street, a public space and the mythical time of the feast. A cyclic meeting place where time stops to celebrate life.

 

  • Process of creation of an urban Performance:
    • Creation of urban dramaturgy: The ages of life.
  • Propaedeutics:
    • Comediants inventors of a new language: From the popular root theatre to the Opera. The street, a public space and the mythical time of the feast. A cyclic meeting place where time stops to celebrate life.

 

 

 

  • Process of creation of an urban Performance:
    • Creation of urban dramaturgy: The ages of life.
2
  • Propaedeutics:
    • Innovation of the festive scene. Rituals for the new Carnival of Venice. The correfoc and the new characters of the Feast of Mercè of Barcelona. The seed of the Tarrega Theatre Festival. The collective participation in the Closing Ceremony of the '92 Olympic Games of Barcelona.
  • Master Class
  • By Toni Mira, dancer and choreographer specialized in Contemporary dance, mapping and audiovisual.

 

  • Process of creation of an urban Performance:
    • Creation of the urban dramaturgy: The ages of life.

 
  • Propaedeutics:
    • Exposition of projects watching audiovisual material, story boards and written projects. A final class discussion.

 

 

 

 

  • Process of creation of an urban Performance:
    • Laboratory of artistic research from the experiences and memory of oral transmission of each student, such as lullabies, learning tunes, pitchmen’s sing-song, funeral rituals, wedding songs, mixed with poems, and choreographies in a contemporary style.
    • Actoral training: actions, scenes, movement, voice and song.
3
  • Propaedeutics:
    • Scenery, scenography and big artifacts for stadiums, Expos, commemorative parades, cultural capitals, using emblematic buildings such as La Pedrera de Barcelona, The Opera House of Sydney, etc.

 

  • Process of creation of an urban Performance:
    • Set up of the Performance. Plasticity. Visuality.
  • Propaedeutics:
    • Audiovisual tools in the outdoor events. The verticality, the allegoric chariots, the city as a scenic decoration, the inflatable elements, the pyrotechnics and other special effects. The design and production of big events in the public space.

 

  • Process of creation of an urban Performance:
    • Actoral Training. Costumes, neutral mask, plasticity and visual elements.
    • Rehearsal in the square.
    • Play of the Urban Performance: The ages of Life. Thursday 8 Jul 12.00h. Agora Campus Bellaterra    

 

Evaluation

Propaedeutics: Participation and discussion (25%).
Process of creation of the Urban performance: Attendance and participation is required each day of the course (75%).
 

Links and references

Basic and advanced bibliography including books, articles and internet links.

Amades, Joan. (1982). Costumari català, el curs de l'any. Barcelona: Salvat Editores/Edicions 62.
Bressanello, Alessandro. (2010). Carnival in the Modern Age. 30 Years of Carnival in Venice 1980-2000. (Studio LT2., pàg 19 a  33 i 260 a 262).
Comediants. (1987). Comediantes, 15 años, Madrid: El Público, Centro de Documentación Teatral, Institut del Teatre de Barcelona.
Fàbregas, Xavier. (1979). Tradicions, mites i creences dels catalans: La pervivència de la Catalunya ancestral. Barcelona: Edicions 62.
Feierabend, Peter. (2013). Bauhaus. Ed. Jeannine Fiedler.
Garcia, Cristina. (1993). España fiestas y ritos. Madrid: Lunwerg Editores.
Guillén, Juan José. (1998). Artefactes parateatrals. Institut del Teatre: Diputació de Barcelona. 
Holme, Bryan. (1988). Princely Feasts and Festivals. Thames and Hudson.
Madeinusa, Miralda. Catàleg de l’exposició al MACBA (Oct.2016-Abril 2017).
Maicas, Moisès. "La màgia del foc i el teatre al carrer", Les mil cares del foc, pp. 220-237. Generalitat de Catanunya. Departament de Presidència. ("The magic of fire and Street theatre", pp. 386-390).
Monleón, José y Di Giammarco, Rodolfo y Scaparro Maurizio. (2007). Il mondo della luna. pp. 31-41. Edizioni Spartaco.
Pallarés, Aida and Pérez, Manuel. (2017). El Carrer és nostre, Raig Verd Editorial. 
Rumbo, Albert. (2001). Patum! Barcelona: Amalgama Edicions.
Villanova, Manuel Vicent. La Escena callejera 1960-1984. Ed. Xarxa Teatre S.L. Colecció fiestacultura.

Edited by David George, John London (1996). Contemporary Catalan Theatre. 

Royal de Luxe 1993-2001  (2002).Edition Actes Sud, Le Mejan.

Le Théatre du Feu.(2002). Actes Sud.

Gaber, Floriane/ Mirales Marc/Bureau,Marc.(2010). Plasticiens Volants

Barbany Damià.(2015). Castell i Planas constructors d’escenografies. Arola Editors.

Celedón Bañados,Pedro (2018), Insurgentes Norte/Sur, teatralidades entre milenios. Editorial cuatro vientos

http://comediants.com/?lang=es
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti7eAmzqmds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8eEl6k8CdY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMcH7TxdW84
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPu0On3YGlo

 

Requirements
Participants must bring comfortable clothes and shoes for physical exercises.

White clothes and black shoes for the performance (shirt/skirts/trousers/leggings...).

 

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