CHIAROSCURO
The theme of the 2025 Myth and Theatre Festival will be CHIAROSCURO, therefore both festive – as befits a festival – but also serious, even obscure, given it will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the tragic and violent death of Roy Hart.
CHIAROSCURO will continue the explorations of the MAGIC Cycle, begun in 2017, whose premise is that “Magic is the broadest and richest horizon of human agency and thought”, but also that “Magic cannot be confined to optimistic illusions; it is too often accompanied by terrible spells.”
Two facets:
1. PRACTICAL: Voice (after Roy Hart), and Voice Performance
WORKSHOPS, Choreographic Theatre LABORATORIES*: voice/movement/text synthesis, and PERFORMANCES.
2. THEORETICAL: seminars, debates and lectures in connection with the work, themes, and performances.
(*The Choreographic Theatre laboratories will feature Caravaggio (1571 – 1610) as lighting designer, the dazzling genius of CHIAROSCURO staging, but also… murderer. See festival IMAGE .
Enrique Pardo will follow up his “defense and illustration” of Roy Hart and James Hillman , inspirational geniuses of Pantheatre, and give the floor once again to Xavier Papaïs , the leading contemporary thinker on MAGIC, and to Sonu Shamdasani , historian of psychology (author with James Hillman of Lament of the Dead .)
Enrollment & information : www.pantheatre.com/-/e-MT25
Enrique Pardo
PANTHEATRE
Created in 1981, co-directed with Linda Wise
Lives in Paris and at Malérargues
Worked with Roy Hart and was part of the Roy Hart Theatre (before 1991)
My work honors two main figures of inspiration: Roy Hart († 1975) and the idealism of his philosophy and practice of voice, and the ideas of American writer and psychologist, James Hillman († 2011) - Carl Jung's main heir.
The year 2025 will mark the 50th anniversary of Roy Hart's death. I plan to assemble and write a collection of in-depth articles on him, on the seven years I worked with him (1968 to 1975) and on the fifty years since, during which I've been lucky enough to travel widely, especially artistically, and to meet many masters, who became friends, including James Hillman. Some of them are younger than me, like Peruvian actor Luis Ramirez, director Romeo Castellucci, and more recently, the French philosopher Xavier Papaïs.
I founded Pantheatre in 1981, and co-direct it with my partner Linda Wise. We are based in Paris and in Malérargues - as an autonomous company associated with the Roy Hart Centre. Read more here
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Linda Wise
Actress, Theatre Director, Singing/Voice Teacher
Lives in Paris, France
Worked with Roy Hart and was part of the Roy Hart Theatre (before 1991)
When I was 19, I met a man who changed the direction of my life. Was it the man? Was it his philosophy? I can only say that this meeting formed the prima materia of my own work – and introduced me to the idea that Art is also a transformational life process.
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Registration
Workshop enrolment is confirmed only upon receipt of deposit.
- Upon submission of the enrolment form below, a deposit of 120 euros per workshop is required, as well as payment in full for accommodation. Please pay your deposit within four days or enrolment will be automatically cancelled. Accommodation bookings will only be taken into account once payment has been received.
- Unless otherwise specified, workshop fees do not include meals. Shared kitchens are available for the use of workshop participants.
- For a refund in the event of cancellation, the deadline for withdrawing from a workshop is 30 days before the workshop is scheduled to begin. A €30 administrative fee will be charged for all cancellations. We regret that deposits are non-refundable within 30 days of the first day of a workshop.
- In the event of low enrolment, the centre reserves the right to cancel a workshop and any deposit can be transferred to another workshop, or fully refunded.
- The Centre Artistique International Roy Hart is an association under French law and all workshop participants must therefore be members. The annual membership dues are €30.
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