Theatre of Cultural Resistance
Workshop
+ Showing of performance piece ДрімМати
has been POSTPONED until summertime.
We will announce the postponement dates later this spring.
Physical theatre practices for promoting, protecting, and preserving oppressed cultures through co-creation.
In this introductory workshop, we will begin with movement, working to identify each individual's body and its potential for acting in the space. Then we will work towards creating a group dynamic, the group being a necessary vessel for cultural transmission. Finally, we will explore resistance through the body - the body of the individual, the body of the group, and the body of a chosen text.
Participants can expect:
A large, empty, and accessible space
Participants should wear athletic, plain black clothing (no logos, words, or images)
Drinking water
Lite brunch
AUDREY DÉGEZ will lead the workshop, which will be followed by a showing of scenes from the developing theatre piece, ДрімМати. The title is a play on words with Ukrainian meaning akin to "Dream-mother." The piece is looking at the sleepless nights many people in Ukraine have faced in the past few years, with constant bomb sirens.
Date: Saturday, February 7th
Time:
10:00 – 10:45 am: Brunch/arrival
10:45 – 12:15: Workshop
12:15 pm: Performance
Location: coLAB Arts – (9 Bayard Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey)
Host: CP4P (Audrey Dégez)
Get to know CP4P:
CP4P International Productions develops and tours new, original works with talented international artists from around the world, inspired by cultures in crisis due to political conflict or ecological disaster.
Furthermore, we provide community outreach to refugee communities through workshops, masterclasses, and by offering sliding-scale or free admission to our performances, as well as by hiring additional personnel for our tours directly from the refugee community. https://www.cp4p-international.org/
Get to know Audrey Dégez:
Audrey Dégez is the founder of CP4P International Productions. As a producer, director, playwright, and actress, she developed two major US tours of devising and performing new original works with artists from Ukraine in 2022 and 2023 (Mothermotherland, I will dance with those oak trees as long as). Her first two plays, Our Common Thread (2015) and Empathize Me (2016) were produced by Dan Swern of coLAB Arts to raise money for the homeless population of New Brunswick, NJ. She is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) and now lives in France with her husband Louis, her children: Lili Maritchka (Slovo. Theater Group) and Gustave Élisée; and their dog Picchu. She received a BA in English Literature from Rutgers University and a professional acting diploma from l’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris.
*Our Breeze ticket system allows different levels to be given for this event so we can grant financial accessibility to everyone who wants to join.