The La Mancha International School of Image and Gesture is situated on the edge of the Andes in Santiago, Chile. Established in 1995 by the La Mancha Theatre Company, the School offers a Two Year Theatre Practitioner Diploma.
Postgraduate diploma courses in Directing, Acting, Pedagogy and Theatre in Human Development are available to Diploma Course graduates from the La Mancha School and are designed to develop and extend the theatre practitioner's professional and practical skills in making or teaching contemporary performance.
La Mancha offers a practice based curriculum and aims at all levels to be sensitive to the students needs and involve them in their learning process. Through play (imagining, creating in the moment and developing relationships with other performers and material), the students develop not only a responsive body, but also the capacity to be creative and open.
Students come to La Mancha from Latin America, U.S.A and Europe. Graduates have gone on to work in film, television and to form national and international theatre and dance Companies. They have also gone on to teach and to direct workshops in schools, local communities, hospitals, prisons, and indigenous communities.
The Two -Year Diploma Course begins with silence in an empty space and the performer's body is understood as a structure within that space, an instrument for the communication of ideas, emotions and appetites, an intelligent machine and model of organization. Based upon the observation of nature and the physical laws that govern it, the two year programme leads the student on a somatic journey of creative discovery in contemporary performance-making. |
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