Subject: Chapitô Company Presents: Physical & Visual Theatre Workshops

Physical and Visual Theatre Workshop
Chapitô Company invites participants to explore the synergy between improvisation, gestures, and visual storytelling in this immersive workshop series. The program spans 9 hours across interconnected modules, though participants may enroll in individual sessions.

      1.Physical Theatre Workshop: Body, Space, and Improvisation

Concept:
A movement-based exploration to (re)discover the body as the primary tool of scenic communication. Through heightened physical awareness and interaction, participants will analyze movement as a narrative force.

Structure:

• Non-verbal communication exercises, gradually incorporating text.
• Character development through physicality and vocal traits, emphasizing strong, distinctive profiles.

Objectives:

• To enhance non-verbal expressiveness, active listening, and collective creativity—skills vital for both theatre and daily life.
• To develop spatial and interpersonal body awareness.
• To master improvisation techniques and physical character-building.
• To strengthen non-verbal communication and teamwork.

Target Audience:
Open to all experience levels. Ideal for those seeking to boost confidence, stage presence, and communication skills.

      2. Visual Theatre Workshop: Characters and Gestural Archetypes

Concept:
Focuses on body-space relationships and creating characters through universal physical archetypes (rather than psychological approaches).

Structure:

• Explores how bodies interact in imagined environments, conveying atmosphere, temperature, or architecture without words.
• Develops visual narratives that transcend language barriers.

Objectives:

• Methods for crafting striking characters through gestures.
• Visual composition and physical storytelling techniques.
• Emotion and atmosphere conveyed beyond text.

Target Audience:
Actors, performers, educators, and visual artists seeking expanded expressive tools.

      3.Dramatic Play & Creative Improvisation Workshop

Concept:
To build collective scenes integrating voice, movement, and plastic elements—equal partners to text in service of communication.

Structure:

• Physical experimentation to uncover character behavior through gestures.
• Archetypal exploration via movement, bypassing psychological traits.
• Fosters synergy between improvisation, physicality, and non-verbal communication.

 

Objectives: This process creates complicity between forms of improvisation, gestures and non-verbal communication. It promotes spontaneity, collaboration on stage and the ability to adapt – skills that are valuable both in the performing arts and in professional and social life.

• Techniques for solo/group improvisation.
• Active listening and real-time response skills.
• Tools for effective visual and audio narratives.

Target Audience:
Mixed groups (beginners to professionals), educators, and creatives.

Practical Details

Dates:

• 21 Sept: 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
• 22–23 Sept: 6:15 PM – 9:15 PM

Location:
Casa Garden Amphitheatre, Fundação Oriente

Fees:

• Full series: 1,200 MOP (10% early-bird discount until 31 July).
• Single module: 500 MOP.

Payable to: Somos! – Associação de Comunicação em Língua Portuguesa. Bank : BNU Macau. Account No. 9017019341

Deadline: 5 September
Capacity: Max 20 participants.
Languages: Taught in English with Chinese translation.
Certificate: Issued by Chapitô Company upon completion.

Instructors: Jorge Cruz, Pedro Diogo, Susana Nunes

Contact: info@somosportugues.com

Artistic Integration

These workshops offer a unique opportunity to blend artistic disciplines, emphasizing physical and visual narrative construction beyond spoken text. Participants will learn characterization, spatial dynamics, and archetype development, enriched by Chapitô’s internationally tested methodologies.

Ideal For:

• Professional actors seeking expressive expansion.
• Directors/playwrights exploring new languages.
• Dancers venturing beyond traditional movement.
• Multidisciplinary artists investigating body-led creativity.
• Theatre students eager for avant-garde techniques.

Outcomes:

• Sustainable body/voice training for stage and life.
• Fusion techniques bridging Eastern/Western practices.
• Deepened body-creativity connection.
• Networking with international artists.
• Professional certification.

About Chapitô Company

Founded in 1996, Chapitô champions comedy’s power to interrogate physical and social realities. Its multidisciplinary productions prioritize collective, evolving actor-physicality, inviting audience imagination. By communicating through gestures and images, the company transcends language, fostering universal appeal.

With nearly 40 original works staged globally (e.g., Germany, Brazil, China, USA), Chapitô remains committed to cultural dialogue—enriching Macau’s artistic landscape through this hands-on exchange.