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YPAT

 
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YPAT is an intensive certified training program aiming at building capacities in the field of the theatre in Lebanon and the region. Exciting, hands-on, practical workshops that run from 20 to 160 hours with great professionals who care to actively share their knowledge and build strong relationships with artists in Lebanon and the region.

YPAT has received the generous support of the European Union in Lebanon, the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), the Goethe-Institut Libanon, the French Embassy in Lebanon, the French Institute in Lebanon and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec (CALQ).


SHAKESPEARE TEXT AND VOICE WORKSHOP - with Susan Worsfold (UK) - 2019

with the support of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture

Ten theatre practitioners from Lebanon and Syria were selected to work over 2 months with Susan in an intensive workshop (160 Hours) in Shakespeare, the voice and Nadine George Technique.

About Susan Worsfold

Susan Worsfold is an award winning theatre director specializing in the Nadine George Voice Work for which she is one of only 14 accredited teachers worldwide. She has worked with the National Theatre of Scotland and her theatre productions have been supported by Creative Scotland, Made in Scotland, British Council Brazil and British Council Scotland. She is Creative Development Director of the Nadine George Voice Centre and is Associate Teacher to the Centre for Voice at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.


FRENCH CLASSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOP - with Emilie Incerti (France) - 2019

with the support of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture

More than twenty participants attended a week-long training with amazing French Actress Emilie Incerti around texts by Racine and Sénèque, studying either the use of Alexandrine verses or the implacable simplicity of ancient Greek texts.

About Emilie IncertI

Avant d’intégrer l’école du Théâtre National de Strasbourg en 1999, EMILIE INCERTI a suivi la formation de l’école de Chaillot. Elle a travaillé avec Abbes Zahmani et Michelle Marquais dans D’Honorables canailles. Sortie de l’école en 2002, elle intègre la troupe du TNS et joue dans La Famille Schroffenstein de Kleist, créée par Stéphane Braunschweig et sous la direction de Laurent Gutmann dans Nouvelles du plateau S. de Oriza Hirata. Elle travaille ensuite avec Yann-Joël Collin dans Violences de Didier-Georges Gabily (2003), avec Hedi Tillette de Clermont Tonnerre dans Marcel B (2004) et avec Manon Savary dans L’Illusion comique de Corneille (2006).

En 2006, elle joue dans Nous, les héros et Histoire d’amour de Jean Luc Lagarce, mise en scène de Guillaume Vincent, et dans L’éveil du printemps (2010). En mars 2009, elle rejoint le groupe Incognito pour Le Cabaret des Utopies au théâtre d’Aubervilliers. En octobre, elle joue dans Andréa et les quatre religions, de Jean-Gabriel Nordmann, dans une mise en scène de Enrico Di Giovanni.
En 2011, elle retrouve Guillaume Vincent sur une adaptation du conte d’Andersen, Le Petit Claus et le grand Claus. Ils continuent leur collaboration avec La Nuit tombe… et Rendez-vous Gare de l’Est, spectacle qu’elle crée en 2012 et qui tournera plus de 200 représentations (USA, Québec, Le Rond-Point, La maison des métallos…) Elle est nommée pour ce rôle dans la catégorie meilleure actrice aux Molières 2015.
En 2013, elle travaille avec Célie Pauthe dans le spectacle Train de nuit pour Bolina, en 2014 avec Bérangère Jannelle dans Twelfth night. En 2015, elle joue dans L’Illusion comique mis en scène par Eric Vignier, et retrouve Guillaume Vincent en 2016 pour le spectacle Songe et métamorphose. En 2017, elle joue dans Au bois de Claudine Galéa mis en scène par Benoît Bradel, spectacle créé au TNS et au Théâtre de la Colline. En 2019, elle retrouve Guillaume Vincent sur les Mille et une nuits (Théâtre de l’Odéon).

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DIGITAL SCENOGRAPHY WORKSHOP - with Christopher Kondek (USA/Germany)- 2019

with the support of the European Union in Lebanon, the Goethe-Institut LEbanon and KED Beirut.

Eight participants were selected to attend this special workshop with world famous Christopher Kondek in KED Beirut. Intensive 50 hours (10 Days), free of charge, on the practical case of AL Zifaf’s (A Very Respectable Wedding, by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Caroline Hatem in Beirut).

about Christopher Kondek

Born in Boston in 1962, he started as a video designer for theatre in 1990 when he began work with the New York Theater company The Wooster Group. With the group he created video for their productions of  “Brace UP!”,  “The Emperor Jones”, and “Fish Story” among others. In 1995 he began a multi-year collaboration with performance artist Laurie Anderson. With Anderson he made video for concert performance “The Nerve Bible”, and her opera “Songs and Stories from Moby Dick” In the late 90's Kondek made video for productions by Robert Wilson, (Death, Destruction and Detroit 3), The Builder's Association and Micheal Nyman, (The Commissar Vanishes.) After moving to Berlin in 1999 Kondek established himself in the German Theater world, working with directors Stefan Pucher (Othello, Der Sturm, both invited to the Theater Treffen), Falk Richter, and Jossi Wieler, Armin Petras among many others. In 2001 he began a many project collaboration with choreographer Meg Stuart, (Alibi, Visitors Only, Replacements, It's Not Funny, Hunter). In 2007 Kondek created video for the first of many opera productions with Sebastian Baumgarten, (Peter Grimes, Semper Opera; Tosca, Volksbühne; and Tannhäuser, Bayreuth Festival among others). In the summer of 2016 Kondek worked with director Lydia Stier on a revival of Stockhausen's long un-performed work, “Donnerstag aus Licht”, which was named production of the year by Opernwelt magazine. In the fall of  2017 he continued his with Baumgarten on a production of  the Brecht/Weil opera, “Mahagonny”. In the fall of 2018 he created visuals for David Bowie's opera, “Lazarus”, directed by Falk Richter at the Hamburg Schauspielhaus.

For his video work in theater Kondek received the OPUS/Deutscher Bühne Prize in 2008 (Der Sturm, Münchner Kammerspiele) and the Faust Theater Prize in 2012 (Don Quixote, Schauspielhaus Hamburg)

In summer 2019 Kondek directed his first Opera, Michael Pelzel's Last Call for the Opernhaus Zürich.


ONLINE SCENOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
with Marc Laîné and Stephan Zimmerli (France)
2020

with the support of the French Institute in Lebanon and the French Embassy in Lebanon

In echo to long months of turmoil in the Lebanese socio-political scene, YAZAN is organising a training around LES JUSTES by Albert Camus with the students of the Lebanese University including a Scenography workshop with renowned director and scenographer Marc Lainé and his life long collaborator Stephan Zimmerli. Due to the Covid-19 epidemic, the workshop was held online in August 2020. Six participants were selected to be mentored over 8 online sessions (24 hours). The zoom sessions were recorded with the intention of creating an open source youtube video with Arabic subtitles.

About MARC LAÎNÉ

Diplômé de l’École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs en 2000, MARC LAÎNÉ travaille d’abord régulièrement pour le théâtre et l’opéra en tant que scénographe. Au théâtre, il a réalisé plus d’une cinquantaine de scénographies avec notamment Marcial Di Fonzo Bo, Richard Brunel, Arnaud Meunier, Pierre Maillet ou Madeleine Louarn… A l’Opéra, il a notamment collaboré avec Richard Brunel pour les créations de Albert Herring à l’Opéra-Comique, L’Elixir d’Amour à l’Opéra de Lille ou le Kaiser Von Atlantis à l’Opéra de Lyon et avec David Bobée pour la création du Rake’s Progress au Théâtre de Caen. Depuis 2008, Marc Lainé conçoit ses propres spectacles.

A partir de 2010, il crée sa propre compagnie La Boutique Obscure et entame un cycle sur les grandes figures de la culture populaire. La création de HUNTER a eu lieu en novembre 2017 à la Scène Nationale 61 (Alençon/Flers). Il en est l’auteur, le scénographe et le metteur en scène. Son univers fantastique y est mis en musique par Gabriel Legeleux (alias Superpoze). Le spectacle est présenté en tournée au cours de la saison 2017-2018, notamment au Théâtre National de Chaillot.

En octobre 2018, Marc Lainé crée à la Scène nationale 61 La chambre désaccordée, spectacle de théâtre musical pour le jeune public. Celui-ci a été présenté au Théâtre de la Ville dans la foulée, puis en tournée 2018-2019. La même saison, Erif Ruf propose à Marc Lainé de réaliser une création pour l’ouverture de saison du Studio-Théâtre de la Comédie Française. Il s’agit d’une adaptation de Construire un feu, de Jack London, avec Nazim Boudjenah, Alexandre Pavloff et Pierre Louis-Calixte.

En Janvier 2020, Marc Laîné est nommé directeur de la Comédie de Valence, Centre Dramatique national.

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ABOUT STEPHAN ZIMMERLI

He is an architect, musician, scenographer and visual artist. Constantly crossing disciplinary boundaries, his work focuses on the interplay between these realms, with an emphasis on the themes of temporality, memory and reminiscence, atmosphere, and the craft of the thinking hand. Everyday drawing, with pencil, charcoal or ink, is at the center of this practice.

After finishing his degree project in Peter Zumthor’s Atelier at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (CH) in 2003, and graduating from the school of Paris-Belleville, Stephan Zimmerli started working as an architect, mainly on cultural & public programs (libraries, museums, hospitals, artist’s studios and theatres), while teaching courses & workshops in several architecture schools across Europe (UEL London, ENSAPB Paris, EAB Rennes, Università della Sapienza Roma, EPFL Lausanne…).

Since 1999, he’s also collaborated with scenographer, author and stage director Marc Lainé, within their Paris-based studio, La Boutique Obscure. Together they’ve designed about 40 projects in theaters across France & Switzerland.


 
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ONLINE PLAYWRIGHTS WORKSHOP - with Guillaume Corbeil (Canada) - 2021

with the support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ)

Six participants were selected to attend this online workshop with Canadian author Guillaume Corbeil, to acquire the basics of storytelling in film and theatre (in French).

About guillaume corbeil

Guillaume Corbeil is a writer from Quebec, author of L’Art de la Fugue, Brassard, Trois Princesses, also a playwright (Cinq visages pour Camille Brunelle, Tu iras la chercher, Unité Modèle) and more recently a screenwriter (Lost Paradise Lost, A tous ceux qui ne me lisent pas). In 2019, he adapted the notorious Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World to the theatre, and wrote in 2020 Pacific Palisades, a mock documentary questioning our need for fiction. His play Cinq visages pour Camille Brunelle earned the Prix de la Critique, the Prix Michel-Tremblay and the Audience Award at the Festival Primeurs in Saarbrücken, Germany. His script A tous ceux qui ne me lisent pas earned the Iris for Best Scenario at the Gala Québec Cinema.


Gallery : PARTICIPANTS’ PROJECTS : ONLINE SCENOGRAPHY WORKSHOP WITH MARC LAÎNÉ & STEPHAN ZIMMERLI (2020)