Molière - TARTUFFE Ionesco - LA LEÇON
Antigone de Sophocle Fuenteovejunas de Lope de Vega La mouette de Tchekhov
Since the year 2000, AUTOPOÏÉSIS, école d’art FELDENKRAIS® has been a member of the UNESCO Chair of the International Theatre Institute, “Theatre and Culture of Civilizations”, created in 1995. The various UNESCO Chairs were established to stimulate cooperation among universities, to contribute to the production of data bases and the setting up of post-university academic, research and professional development activities. The UNESCO Chair of the International Theatre Institute is located in Bucharest, (The “I.L. Caragiale” National University of Theatre and Cinema).
AUTOPOÏÉSIS, école d’art FELDENKRAIS® and the UNESCO Chair of the ITI have signed a protocol of understanding in effect until 2006. AUTOPOÏÉSIS, école d’art FELDENKRAIS® has participated in a number of projects included in the various activities of the UNESCO Chair of the ITI.
Odette Guimond has participated in the 2000 and 2002 World Conference of Directors of Superior Schools of Theatre in which important resolutions were voted upon, especially concerning the Academic Mobility UNESCO Programme for Theatre Workshops of Drama Schools, artistic education and professional development. In the year 2000, she presided over the debate on private and institutional schools.
As Director of AUTOPOÏÉSIS, école d’art FELDENKRAIS®, Odette Guimond participated in a vast international survey on the teaching of theatre in schools of higher learning worldwide under the auspices of UNESCO-CEPES and involving 71 teachers representing 43 schools in 31 countries around the world. The results of the survey, analyzed and commented upon, were presented in Études théâtrales/Theatre Studies no. 3, published by the UNESCO Chair–ITI in 2003.
Between 2000 and 2004, during the International Workshops in Sinaia, Romania, Odette Guimond ran workshops on the work method of AUTOPOÏÉSIS, école d’art FELDENKRAIS® for participants from the different schools who were present.
In 2002, AUTOPOÏÉSIS presented a workshop on Sophocles’s Antigone, directed by Odette Guimond. The participants in this session were Marie-Ève Bibeau, Laur Fugère, France Pepin, Karine Poulin and Daniel Roy. The workshop was selected by an international jury of the UNESCO Chair, the training committee of the ITI and the Hellenic Centre of the ITI to represent North America at the World Festival of Drama Schools held in Athens in October of the same year.
In 2003, AUTOPOÏÉSIS presented a workshop on Lope de Vega’s Fuenteovejunas and Chekhov’s Seagull, directed by Odette Guimond. The participants were Diane Beaulieu and Isabelle Leclerc. Once again, this workshop was selected to represent North America at the World Festival of Drama Schools held in Tampico in May and June of 2004.
In 2004, Odette Guimond was a member of the international jury of the UNESCO Chair that selected schools to make presentations on Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Lorca’s Blood Wedding in preparation for the World Festival of Drama Schools of 2006 to be held in Manila. With the other members of the jury, she led debates on the 20 presentations of the schools.
In 2005, AUTOPOÏÉSIS presented two workshops, one on Ionesco’s The Lesson and the other on Molière’s Tartuffe. The participants involved were Luc Bouffard, Philippe Cyr, Stéphanie Julien and Marie-Lyse Laberge-Forest.
Odette Guimond also gave an introductory training session in the Feldenkrais Method to the theatre department of the University of Arts "George Enescu" , Iasi as part of the exchanges promoted by the UNESCO Chair of the International Theatre Institute.
Following the presentations cited above, the universities of Iasi and of Tg Mures in Romania requested feature articles. Two articles, one on “Teaching Stage Acting at the Dawn of the 21st Century” and the other on “Somatic Education of the Actor and the Spectator, Making Sense of a Shared Experience,” were produced in Autumn 2005.
Molière - TARTUFFE Ionesco - LA LEÇON
Antigone de Sophocle Fuenteovejunas de Lope de Vega La mouette de Tchekhov
In Athens in 2002 and in Tampico in 2004, AUTOPOÏÉSIS participated in the World Festival of Drama Schools, held jointly with activities of the Congress of the International Theatre Institute (ITI) of the UNESCO Chair. AUTOPOÏÉSIS was chosen in both cases to represent North America at these world festivals. There, the presentations of the international workshops given in Sinaia, Romania on Sophocles’s Antigone (2002) and Lope de Vega’s Fuenteovejunas and Chekhov’s Seagull (2004) were repeated.
In 2002, some of the students of AUTOPOÏÉSIS took part in the UNESCO Chair–ITI summer courses, one on marionettes (Marie-Ève Bibeau), another, on Stanislavski (Karine Poulin) and a third on Greek tragedy (Daniel Roy).
Accounts of presentations of AUTOPOÏÉSIS can be found in no. 2 (Antigone) and no. 4 (Fuenteovejunas and The Seagull) of the Review, as well as Odette Guimond’s perspective in the analysis of the survey of 71 teachers in no. 3. Moreover, in issue no. 4, Odette Guimond paints a portrait of the teaching of drama in schools of higher learning in Quebec, in which she tries to enlarge on the opinion of the Quebec experts who took part in the survey, among other things.
Extracts of the presentations of international workshops of AUTOPOÏÉSIS, école d’art FELDENKRAIS® can be found on CD-ROMs produced by the UNESCO Chair–ITI in 2002 and 2003 in the context of the Academic Mobility UNESCO Programme for Theatre Workshops of Drama Schools.
Moreover, AUTOPOÏÉSIS, école d’art FELDENKRAIS® has produced two CD-ROMs about the school and its method of work. These CD-ROMs were presented for the first time at the International Workshops of 2002 and 2003.
In 2003, AUTOPOÏÉSIS, école d’art FELDENKRAIS® became a cooperating member of the International Theatre Institute. As president and director of the school, Odette Guimond took part in the Congress of the International Theatre Institute in Marseilles (2000), in Athens (2002) and in Tampico (2004) with a particular interest in the debates raised by the training committee and in symposia involving the UNESCO Chair-ITI. The International Theatre Institute (ITI) is a non-governmental organization with a vast international network and headquarters in Paris. Founded in 1948, it maintains formal relations of association with UNESCO.
“Since theatrical art is a universal expression of mankind, which links large groups of the world's peoples, an autonomous professional international organization has been formed, which bears the name of INTERNATIONAL THEATRE INSTITUTE. The purpose of the Institute is to promote international exchange of knowledge and practice in theatre arts (Drama, Dance, Music theatre) in order to consolidate peace and friendship between peoples, to deepen mutual understanding, increase creative co-operation between all people in the theatre arts.” (Article 1 of the Charter of the ITI)
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