New Alphabet

Theater workshop "New alphabet“, part of the project "aW(E)are", which was attended by 14 young people aged 13 to 24 years from Association "Youth Club Roma Stolipinovo - 1996" and students of Drama Theater at Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski" from the class of Prof. Alexander Iliev (Class 12 + 3).

The thematic focus of the workshop is the work with the expressive means of theater and performance:

• Developing a rhythm game and a sequence of rhythmic steps to build a physical connection between the participants without the use of words;
• Improvisation of daily scenes with and without the use of words;
• Creating a scenario;
• Exploring the area of Stolipinovo through the eyes of the young people living there to find the spaces associated with a specific emotion for the participants:
• A beautiful and enjoyable place that awakens pleasant memories;
• A place of fear;
• Learning theatrical techniques such as articulation of sound through vowels and consonants, performing small exercises in self-control;
• Individual interviews on personal history, childhood memories and the present of workshop participants;
• Conducting interviews on the meaning of the words by which the participants identify themselves; nuances of meaning and ways of writing the terms in different languages;
• Outlining one's own silhouette of paper as well as outlining the silhouette of the other as a symbolic representation and acquaintance of the participants;
• Designing the places where thoughts and emotions live; writing, in different languages, words that express their emotional state at that moment;
• Non-verbal improvisations on fragments to build a structured story: start, culmination, end.

As a result of the workshop, the group created a shared experience, and after four days of joint work the participants identified themselves as a "TEAM". The production of content for the performance in January (January 27 is the date of the final performance aW(E)are, in the hall of Radio Plovdiv) together with the construction of the concept of sound and lighting and determination of the location of the performance as part of the exploration of the city and life in their diverse and specific dimensions as well as cultural levels.

"aW(E)are" is a project by the Italian theatre company GOMMALACCA Teatro. Learn more about GOMMALACCA Teatro and the project  - www.facebook.com/www.gommalaccateatro.it. Details for the first workshop at www.facebook.com/events/1166902246794484.

Photo credit - Carlotta Vitale, Mimmo Conte, art director and director of Gommalacca, Luca Puglisi, photographer, IAC and Youth Club Roma.