the experience: what you will learn in physical theatre, at each improvisational event, is to respond to others. you need not, in fact, you must not try to "come up" with something. it is sufficient to take up an invitation, and continue it, repeating it until something new appears with minimal modification or modify what's offered as an answer spontaneously. this is the original form of dialogue. the physical theater only becomes boring when monologues are done, in which case the invisible bond that connects everyone is torn.

the contact: there is improvisation coming naturally from the elemental activities of walking, lying & squatting. thus, the basic vocabulary of theater and dance are developed as well.

there are repeated instances of contact and/or solving contact; fusion and separation. perhaps it even goes ahead digesting and self-propagating these elementary processes of life, as both have to establish contacts and overcome barriers of contact. union and separation, the nucleus of all stories, the nucleus of all.

the feedback: why not do on stage what we do constantly anyway? it seems to me to be a "feedback loop" in which conscious living can regulate itself through such feedback, as opposed to unconscious life which overregulates instincts, imprinting only conditioned learned experiences.

the process: the physical theater involves a process of design, development, research & in-scene-settings encouraging more physicality. be body, feel the lightness and heaviness, explore the space, make contact, hold and release the contents by feeling the body, one's own and that of the other's(foreign or familiar) body, their strength, tension and fatigue.

induction / the mirror: as ulrich gottlieb says: "if you feel it, the audience feels it also. here transmission forces come into play, mirror phenomena and activations by merely watching, enhancing the whole structure of the experience: sensorimotor sensations, emotional responses and cognitive processes."

from "about the physical theatre by ulrich gottlieb ". with courtesy of gerald hutterer
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ulrich gottlieb
ulrich gottlieb, vienna/bangkok, 1964 born in germany
physical theatre practisioner & conceptualist, performer & teacher, taiji practisioner & instructor, visual artist, writer.

early background in mime, later physical theatre self-thaught and by werner müller, nürnberg & hiro uchiyama, paris.

taiji quan & qigong by lim chee choon, penang and chen liang yao, bangkok

physical and visual work in multiple disciplines as physical theatre, taijiquan, painting, video, poesie...

works in art and education. international collaborations with theatres, festivals, cultural institutions, universities, international schools. performing and teaching and internationally.

bavarian state theatre
bavarian theatre academy munich
salzburg festival
university of popular music and music business mannheim
patravadi theatre bangkok
srinakarinwirot university bangkok
chulalongkorn university bangkok
ista international school theatre association
international dance festival bangkok
performance art center of penang
summer academy zakinthos/greece
wonderfruit festival thailand
international solo festival bangkok
GEMS world academy singapore
portugese embassy bangkok
fang mae kong dance festival vientiane
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art projects
physical poetry - dance/text
#touch - living canvas