Juggling through the ages
Action culturelle
The Maison des Jonglages des Jonglages has invited artist Jean-Baptiste Diot from Compagnie Kor to lead a series of juggling discovery and practice workshops for CE2 pupils at Paul Langevin elementary school in Les Lilas.
[Intervenant·e·s]
- Artist :
- Jean-Baptiste Diot
Jean-Baptiste Diot, from the KOR company, is leading a series of workshops with all the CE2 classes at the Paul Langevin school in Les Lilas, focusing on circus arts and movement.
The workshops offered to students deal with the body and its vocabulary. A simple initiation is transformed into an immersive experience in which circus grammar, mobility, self-acceptance and the rules of the stage are transmitted. The workshops are accessible to all, with an emphasis on group dynamics.
In these workshops, students learn to spatialize, to apprehend the object in their hands and in the space around them. Through repetition, students learn to increase their level of analysis, to create a better relationship between nervous reaction and motor efficiency and reactivity to objects. With this in mind, students discover and appropriate the principles and applications of general and specific physical preparation for juggling.
To achieve this, the students and their teachers :
– Motor skills and coordination exercises
– General and specific physical preparation
– Kinesiology exercises aimed at expanding the students’ motor schema
– Rhythmic and musical juggling
– Postural correction
– The basics of traditional juggling with 3 objects (and more…)
– A video study of the different juggling styles
– An anatomical point of view on the motor functions developed by juggling
– The construction of a routine summarizing all or part of the vocabulary learned during the workshop.
Towards the end of the course, the final workshops will be devoted to the creation of a stage performance based on the exercises in spatial apprehension and bodily expression practiced during the workshops, and culminating in a choreographed musical juggling performance based on the vocabulary learned.