From 26th of September – 5th of December 2005 at Studio Emad Eddin Stage Combat is a form of choreography that allows the audience to believe in the illusion of realistic fighting. Participants were taught the fundamentals of the weight and balance of the body, and learned techniques on how to ground themselves to the…
From 12th -15th of September 2005 at Studio Emad Eddin Participants were given text to memorize and Alexander used this as a basis for the event, working on movement, improvisation and voice. Several other members of the EHTA Theatre Company joined him and gave the benefit of their expertise and training in multiple disciplines.
From 16th – 18th of June 2005 at Studio Emad Eddin The workshop, inspired by Finnish actor, director and gestalt-therapist, Marcus Groth, explored the negative side of effort; how actors often try too hard; how self-criticism and self-awareness can block presence, the true feelings and expressions of what one really is in the here and…
From 20th – 30th of November 2006 at Studio Emad Eddin Dramaturgy attempts to make a theatre-performance coherent, interesting and relevant. In many cases (though certainly not always) a dramatic text is the starting point of a production and the dramaturge’s work begins with text analysis. Pam’s workshop looked at four different methods of doing…
From 28th of May – 11th of June 2006 at Studio Emad Eddin The Cervantes Institute in Cairo, in collaboration with Studio Emad Eddin and the Association for Scientific and Cultural Renaissance, offered a two-week, documentary theatre workshop. Abierto al Público took place in five different cities, Rabat, Berlin, Moscow, Cairo and Lisbon, and presented…
From 24th – 29th of January 2006 at Studio Emad Eddin This workshop, in collaboration with Studio Oscuro, explored body movement and different elements of street dance such as hip-hop, break-dance, mime and slow-motion techniques. Participants also followed the rehearsals of the performance “Solar Plexus”, and director Charlie Åström participated in the workshop.
After the success of the first contemporary dance workshop in January 2004, Studio Emad Eddin, in collaboration with Karima Mansour and MAAT Contemporary Dance organized a 1-year program in contemporary dance tutored by various professionals from Egypt, the Arab World and Europe. As a specialized dance professional, Karima Mansour was able to put the right…
As part of the Residency and Workshop program, and with the aim of building an industry for independent music in Egypt and structuring independent music activity, Studio Emad Eddin, in collaboration with the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and Egypt Music Network offered two sound workshops held on the fringe of an ‘Independent Music Festival’ in Alexandria, Egypt.…
Phase 1- By Saad Samir (Egypt): This workshop dealt with the basic elements of lighting, starting with the nature of electricity and moving on to equipment. The workshop was aimed at Egyptian free theatre groups and concentrated on practical issues, how to light a show with the minimum of resources and limited budgets. Participants were…
From 5th – 19th of September 2007 at Studio Emad Eddin The workshop explored techniques of the Grotowsky Theater. At the end of the workshop, participants created a small performance, and the director chose 3 actors from the participants to work with him in another performance that was presented in Tenerife (Spain) in October.