Ecole des Maîtres 2024

Anne-Cécile Vandalem directs Ecole des Maîtres 2024
International Touring Theatre Master class
XXXII edition: 24 August – 28 September 2024
workshop: Hauntings, rituals, legacies and transmissions
assistants: Céine Gaudier, Pauline Ringeade

trainees: Luca D’Arrigo, Jonathan Lazzini, Francesca Osso, Davide Pascarella (Italy); Claudia Bruno, Egon Di Mateo, Victoria Lewuillon, Anna Solomin-Ohanian (Belgium); Olga Abolina, Louis Atlan, Teddy Chawa, Camille Plocki (France); Ana de Oliveira e Silva, Mariana do Ó, Roxana Ionesco, Pedro Nunes (Portugal)


project partners and art direction
CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Piccolo Teatro di Milano - Teatro d’Europa (Italy), CREPA - Centre de Recherche et d’Expérimentation en Pédagogie Artistique, Théâtre de Liège - Centre européen de création théâtrale et chorégraphique (CFWB/Belgium), Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, TAGV - Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente (Portugal), Le Quai Centre Dramatique National Angers Pays de la Loire, Comédie, Centre dramatique national de Reims (France)

with the support of MiC Ministero della Cultura - Direzione Generale Spettacolo, Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia - Direzione centrale cultura e sport, Fondazione Friuli (Italy)
with the participation of ERPAC - Ente Regionale Patrimonio Culturale Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy), Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles - Service général de la Création artistique, Wallonie-Bruxelles International, La Loterie Nationale (CFWB/Belgium), Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (France), Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)

The Ecole des Maîtres is an advanced theatre training project conceived by Franco Quadri in 1990.
The training objective of the Ecole des Maîtres is to initiate a relationship between young actresses and actors, trained at drama academies and theatre schools in Europe and already working as professionals, and renowned directors of the international scene, in order to give life to a work experience strongly aimed at comparing and exchanging skills on staging methods and practices, starting from different texts, languages and artistic languages, during itinerant ateliers.

The Belgian actress, author and director Anne-Cécile Vandalem has been invited to lead the XXXII edition of the Ecole des Maîtres.
The title of her workshop is Hauntings, rituals, legacies and transmissions.

"The theme of haunting will be at the centre of our work: what are the buried narratives, the ghost-stories that our dominant narratives prevent us from hearing? As our present cracks, the great stories that supported us yesterday are now revealing their obsolescence. From these faults, undeniable today, minor, unheard, invisible stories re-emerge to haunt us.

How have these stories managed to survive the silence, to become precarious yet vivid lights that now haunt our memories, our dreams and send us back to the tremors of our humanity? How can we listen to them, put ourselves at their service, make ourselves available to their continuation? What are the devices to be worked out so that these revivals can be performed? Under what conditions can we learn from them?
At the beginning of contemporary stories, whether real or fictional, and of their reconstitution, we try to understand the conditions of recovery and reinterpretation of events so that new, less polarised versions of them may arise from their reactivation, capable of opening the way to to a middle ground, a troubled zone in which other forms of coexistence might prove possible."
Anne-Cécile Vandalem


THE WORK STAGES OF THE XXXII EDITION OF THE ECOLE DES MAÎTRES

Course Calendar
24/08 – 31/08 Belgium, Brussels              
01/09 – 10/09 Italy, Udine
11/09 – 14/09 Italy, Milan
15/09 – 19/09 Portugal, Coimbra
20/09 – 24/09 France, Angers
25/09 – 28/09 France, Reims

Open Lesson
31/08 Belgium, Brussels
Public Presentations
10/09 Italy, Villa Manin di Passariano, Udine - h 19
free admission - reservation required info@cssudine.it
14/09 Italy, Milan, Teatro Grassi
18/09 Portugal, Coimbra, Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente (TAGV)
24/09 France, Angers, Le Quai, Théâtre 400 
28/09 France Reims, Atelier de la Comédie