About Bral Institute

PROSPECTUS 2014/2015

BRAL INSTITUTE

LSPAP has been established after 30 years of work in the field of performance and theatre. It was born from the belief that at the centre of actor's craft and training must be the performer themselves. 

Often the individual's creativity is reduced by the requirment to comply with the needs of various systems. The aim of LSPAP is to strengthen the aspirations and self-confidence of the individual through providing the skills and "guidance" so they are strongly rooted in the creative and genuine energy of the performer. 

We acknowledge that the art of the performer requires an effort of perpetual refinement and is a process requiring hard work and commitement. Within LSPAP these needs are met by the teachers and the students.

The works is about the individual rooted and strong in themselves, adding and contributing to a common aim - performance of a highest quality.

London School of Performing Arts Practices in cooperation with Song of the Goat Theatre run this one-year course for all theatre actors and practitioners. The main subject of the course is “Coordination technique”, the fundamental training method of Song of the Goat Theatre.

This course consists of the organic linking together and integration of voice, text, energy, and imagination. Classes are enhanced by lectures entitled “Anthropology of Acting”. This studies programme has been desiged for actors, directors, performers, and dancers and it is aimed to integrate their previous experience, broaden their skills, and open brand new space for their imagination and creativity.

LSPAP is a contemporary school dedicated to developing the performer's art. LSPAP combines Western traditions of dramatic practices, with  ancient performance techniques originally from indigenous cultures. Through this combination the actors will be able to gain new space, context and energy in their practice, enhancing techniques of psychological realism, as well as  physical and vocal abilities.

LSPAP teaches acting methods based on coordinating and integrating different tools and sources of acting It is an original technique, whose main goal is the internal integration of all acting tools: voice, rhythm, energy, imagination, text, gesture. Through this technique actors combines voice with imagination, rhythm with energy, text with feelings into an organic unity.

LSPAP provides space for a multicultural encounter. It is three years of study, which allows actors to come into contact with masters and lecturers from different theatrical traditions as well as various cultural circles, which are currently devising innovative acting techniques.

LSPAP is a school that aims to preserve human heritage. We believe that every culture and its heritage enriches the human experience. By practicing the actors craft we can help preserve, practice and communicate  these expressions of cultures and identity by engaging with them. 

Explications

1. Coordination Technique- an original practice based on the integration of all acting tools into one common and organic unity.
2. Musical Drama- creating theatre in which dramaturgy originates from the spirit of music and is built around song.
3. Practice -participation in the program of daily practical and theory classes.
4. Sourcefulness - the authenticity of human experience as the starting point for role and performance creation.
5. Anthropology of Acting - researching and discovering the cultural sources of gesture, sound and stage presence.
6. Interculturalism - the mutual enrichment and saturation of cultures through theatre, while maintaining their autonomy and identity.
7. Integration - integrating indigenous and primitive vocal and physical techniques with main trends in Western European theatre.

Working tools

1. Practice - intense acting training encompassing integrated work with music, text, voice, body and imagination, based on the Coordination Method devised by Grzegorz Bral, Gabriel Gawin and Song of the Goat actors.
2. Source Research - researching cultural enclaves; participating in rituals, ceremonies, meetings with practitioners and sentinels of indigenous cultures.
3. Performances - the realisation of multicultural theatre and film projects
4. Musicality - researching and practicing the sources of theatre and drama contained in music.
5. Dialogue - working out innovative acting techniques through meetings between ethnically diverse creators, practitioners and theorists of theatre and film.
6. Exchange - the presentation of artists from different cultures in a common public event.