Phase 1: Courses

This course combines social therapy and participatory art in a year-long exploration of community-based creative processes. The first eight sessions introduce social therapy as a psychosocial support method focusing on community connection, positive engagement, and collective self-expression. students explore Vygotsky’s theory of social development and how it can be applied to empower individuals within group settings. The following seven sessions shift into participatory arts, where students examine context, ethics, and the politics of working with different communities. Through practice, they learn how to lead sessions, use personal narratives as starting points for creation, and translate these ideas into public and street-based artistic interventions.

This course is a deep physical exploration of the world of masks and its direct connection to storytelling. The journey begins with the Neutral Mask, where students develop self-awareness by observing and releasing personal habits to find neutrality. This state allows the body to settle into calmness and full receptivity, awakening presence and opening the door to mask-based work. The path continues with the Larval Mask, whose subtle shapes and asymmetries invite students into a playful, non-verbal universe. With the face fully covered, performers are pushed to communicate through body, gesture, rhythm, and expanded spatial awareness. The masks demand amplification of physical choices, encouraging clarity and precision in movement. The third stage explores the Expressive Mask, in which characters emerge from its lines, colors, and volumes. These masks reveal rich emotional landscapes and guide students into more defined roles and textured physical expression. Throughout the course, the physical worlds of Neutral, Larval, and Expressive masks become tools for building a poetic language, a space where imagination leads, and nothing is ordinary. This foundation culminates in a collective storytelling structure, where students transform investigations from mask work into a unified chorus. Together, they discover how individual imagination merges into a shared creative force. The final sessions of this course will take place in public spaces, where students apply the tools they’ve developed to improvise on the streets, interact with community members, and adapt their performance to real environments and spontaneous encounters.  

This course dives into the creation of expressive, dynamic characters using physical theatre techniques. Students draw inspiration from objects, elements of nature, and each other to build characters rooted in physicality rather than text. Through movement analysis, tension and dosage, improvisation, and rapid scene construction, students learn to shape characters with clarity, rhythm, and intention. Using treteau techniques, the group then begins placing these characters inside detailed and textured environments, worlds created collectively through ensemble storytelling and precise physical imagery. The class focuses on transforming bodies into landscapes, atmospheres, and relationships, forming environments that feel rich, alive, and deeply connected to the characters within them. The final sessions of this course will take place in public spaces, where students apply the tools they’ve developed to improvise on the streets, interact with community members, and adapt their performance to real environments and spontaneous encounters.

This course introduces music as a tool for self-exploration, creative expression, and storytelling. students learn how sound and music can shape emotional landscapes, build universes, and communicate with diverse audiences on both personal and performative levels. Through exercises blending theatre, physical theatre, storytelling, and music therapy, students explore sound as a pathway to self-awareness, authenticity, and presence. On a personal level, they listen deeply, observing sensations, emotions, and thoughts triggered by sound. They experience the therapeutic side of music and learn how to use it in community-based work, especially with vulnerable groups. As the course develops, students begin producing sound and music, freeing the voice, expanding vocal expression, and exploring the full range of vocal possibilities. This process helps break internal barriers and nurtures a confident, playful relationship with their own voice. The course culminates in applying music to performance, integrating sound as an expressive layer that complements and enriches storytelling. The final sessions of this course will take place in public spaces, where students apply the tools they’ve developed to improvise on the streets, interact with community members, and adapt their performance to real environments and spontaneous encounters.

This course explores puppetry as a magical, expressive, and technically rich art form. Puppets have the power to awaken imagination, inspire creativity, and help audiences of all ages connect to stories and emotions in a unique way. Whether addressing joyful themes or difficult subjects, puppetry offers a playful and deeply human approach. To bring a puppet to life, however, the puppeteer must master precision, technique, rhythm, and illusion. Like any magician, the puppeteer trains to transform an inert object into a living presence with breath, intention, and personality. Across the 15 sessions, students work with various forms of puppets and manipulation techniques—developing the ability to animate, voice, and embody characters. Through creation, improvisation, and performance, they learn how to use puppetry in both artistic and community contexts. The final sessions of this course will take place in public spaces, where students apply the tools they’ve developed to improvise on the streets, interact with community members, and adapt their performance to real environments and spontaneous encounters. Improvise in public spaces and interact with community members .

This course explores clowning as a powerful artistic language rooted in humanity, vulnerability, and comic truth. The clown is not a character we invent. It’s the deepest, most naïve, most foolish part of each person, revealed with courage and playfulness. Rather than hiding imperfections, clowning celebrates them. students embark on a process of uncovering their own “beautiful stupidity”, discovering the poetic innocence and fragility that make each human being naturally funny. Through games, physical exploration, failure exercises, and improvisation, they learn how to embrace mistakes, surrender control, and allow the unexpected to guide the performance. The iconic red nose becomes both a mask and a magnifier: a tiny object that cracks open honesty, amplifies emotional states, and strips away pretension. The clown can bring laughter to tender subjects, transform difficulty into humor, and build an immediate connection with the audience. Throughout the course, they develop their clown identities, discover personal comic universes, build duos and group numbers, and experiment with how clowning can be used in the streets and within community settings. The goal is not only to make people laugh, but to reveal something profoundly human through laughter. The final sessions of this course will take place in public spaces, where students apply the tools they’ve developed to improvise on the streets, interact with community members, and adapt their performance to real environments and spontaneous encounters. ”

This course dives into the wild, provocative, and deeply theatrical world of the Bouffon. The mischievous outcasts who expose truth through play, parody, and grotesque beauty. Unlike the clown, who reveals personal vulnerability, the Bouffon turns their gaze outward. They seduce the audience, mock power, and reveal the underbelly of human greed, ego, corruption, and desire. Their game is dangerous, joyful, sharp, and irresistibly funny. Throughout the course, students explore the darker, distorted edges of performance, stepping into a realm where masks, bodies, rhythms, and tensions become tools for social critique. Through improvisations and structured games, students revisit and redefine the core elements of Bouffon logic: – What is the game? – How do Bouffons hold tension and presence? – How do they provoke and charm at the same time? The work includes sharpening mask techniques, cultivating a sense of urgency, surrendering to impulses, and playing with distortion, rhythm, and exaggeration. Students design grotesque forms, explore new physical logics, layer parody with precision, and learn how to keep critique relevant, alive, and delightfully uncomfortable. Play is central: through joy, imagination, and ensemble work, the group unleashes its inner folly and finds the freedom to let go. This class challenges personal, physical, and artistic limits, helping students face taboos with humor and reveal difficult truths through bold performance. The final sessions of this course will take place in public spaces, where students apply the tools they’ve developed to improvise on the streets, interact with community members, and adapt their performance to real environments and spontaneous encounters.

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of multimedia creation, focusing on how to produce videos using the tools they already have. Whether working with a smartphone, a DSLR, or a professional camera, students learn how to turn everyday equipment into powerful storytelling tools. The class blends technical skills with artistic intention. Students explore cinematography principles, including exposure, lighting, framing, focus, and stabilization, to understand how each choice shapes the emotional and visual impact of a shot. They also learn how to record clean audio in various environments, tackle common sound issues, and select the most suitable methods for each shooting context. Finally, students dive into the editing process: selecting footage, building a narrative through cuts, adding rhythm, adjusting sound and color, and crafting videos that engage viewers both on and off stage. By the end of the course, students understand the full workflow of video creation and how multimedia can serve as a strong advocacy tool by amplifying voices, documenting realities, highlighting social issues, and creating visual stories that inspire dialogue and change.

This workshop provides students with essential strategic, administrative, and managerial tools needed to sustain and execute artistic projects from beginning to end. Students learn how performances and cultural initiatives are built not only through creativity, but also through clear planning, solid structures, and effective communication. The course explores the full lifecycle of a project: developing ideas, writing proposals, budgeting, raising funds, planning implementation, and managing logistics. Students also learn the importance of evaluation and reflection. By gaining these practical skills, students become more independent and confident in organizing their own artistic, social, and community-based projects, from concept to completion.

This course introduces students to the technical and creative foundations of sound design, with a focus on how sound functions in public spaces, performances, and street-based artistic interventions. Students first learn the technical essentials: how to set up sound installations, work with different types of microphones, mixers, speakers, and Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs). They also explore how to select the right equipment for different environments, and how to troubleshoot common technical issues during rehearsals or live performances. The course then shifts to the artistic dimension of sound design, how sound shapes atmosphere, emotion, rhythm, and narrative. students study how to tell stories through sound, when and how to incorporate music, and how effects, frequencies, and dynamics influence human perception. They also learn how to adapt sound design to street settings, working with open spaces, ambient noise, and real-time interactions to support outdoor performances. By blending technical control with creative intention, students learn how sound can become a powerful partner to performance, enhancing the audience’s experience and deepening the storytelling process.