Si los martes fueran viernes IN RESiDENCE at the School Antaviana

Si Los Martes Fueran Viernes (SLMFV) is a project that since it started has been in the field of performance and education to bring improvisation and instant composition to the general public. Throughout all these years we have been finding different ways to include improvisation and instant composition in the cultural and training agenda in theatres, training centres and creative factories of the city of Barcelona. Over these five years, we have systematised a methodology whose practices and tools help us to improvise and compose instantaneously. Our proposal is to share our methodology week by week. A methodology whose tools will be presented as simple group games and exercises, in pairs and individually, always based on what it means for us to create collectively and in real time. Through physical practice we will touch on different concepts including stage presence, spatial awareness, musicality, stage rhythm, group composition, solos, leading or accompanying and peripheral gaze.

In SLMFV we work with improvisation and therefore with what emerges instantaneously and with what the bodies and the students have to express. This means that we do not want to present or fix a language of movement but a creation methodology that will inevitably be transformed by the group of pupils who take part in the project, according to their needs and desires.

Finally, SLMFV understands instantaneous composition as the real-time interaction of the different variables that are part of a stage piece: bodies and dances, sound, light, costumes and staging. Therefore, another objective is to enter into a space of practice and study where we can observe the possible relationships between body, movement, sound, light, costumes and staging.