Paroles et Gestes Libres – artistic workshops in penitentiaries
Action culturelle
- Artistic action in prisons
La Maison des Jonglages and the Villepinte Prison have set up a partnership to offer a series of workshops on the art of gesture and the art of speech to prisoners. Juggling artist Axel Martinez and actor, singer and slammer Toma Roche are offering a series of workshops involving the body, objects and words.
- Villepinte Prison
- Du Monday 04 September 2023
- au Friday 29 September 2023
- Espace d'accueil : texte espace d'accueil
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- Villepinte Prison
- Du Friday 29 September 2023
- au Friday 29 September 2023
- Espace d'accueil : texte espace d'accueil
This session has passed
[Intervenant·e·s]
- Juggler :
- Axel Martinez
- Comedian, slammer and singer :
- Toma Roche
A Writing/Juggling project based on the notion of “Word & Free free gesture”, on the different meanings and feelings of a word, how it flies, how it shouts, it whispers, it bounces, it taps, it writes fictions and induces feelings, it goes around like a rumor, how it can create terror, how it is muzzled and set free again, how it laughs, cries, rolls, remains weightless, weighs heavily on the heart, how it speaks loudly about our times and what we are going through in our intimate and political lives.
Axel Martinez and Toma Roche propose to start with the words that come up in brainstorming when we speak, and in so doing, tell everyday stories, analyze, create, write, become aware of, question, what is said, not said, written, told, juggled, from the word to the ball, from the ball to the mouth, from the mouth to the heart. To write, to put in voice, then in play, in stage, in circus these writings.
Axel Martinez and Toma Roche will stage a performance in keeping with an approach that blends bodies, objects, texts and acting, creating a hybrid form that we classify as “new writing” and, above all, drawing on the directed improvisations from which they will retain the most relevant elements for themselves and the participants. This performance will showcase the texts written in the workshop and the gestural performances acquired.