Commission Professional Training of Unima

Last Report

2/04/2013

Meeting of the Professional Training Commission in Montreal
hosted by the festival «Les Trois jours de Casteliers»
March 6 & 7, 2013

Location: École supérieure de théâtre de l’Université du Québec a Montreal (Higher Ed. Theatre School, University of Québec in Montreal)

Present: Tito Lorefice, Marthe Adam, Irina Niculescu, Marek Waszkiel, Hans Hartvich Madsen, Lucile Bodson, Greta Bruggeman, Svein Gundersen.

Auditors: John Lewandowski and Karen Høie.

We are all very happy to have this meeting in Canada and we give our warm thanks to Louise Lapointe, director of the festival, and to Marthe Adam director of the DESS program in contemporary puppet theatre at the Higher Education Theatre school. Tito presents the agenda of the meeting:

1. Student scholarships
One of the two scholarships of 1000 euros each could not be awarded this year due to the fact that Atelier Arketal had to cancel the workshop. The commission decided to propose to the candidate from Romania who won the scholarship for Arketal to choose between three other workshops: the shadow theatre workshop offered by the company Giocco Vita or one of the two workshops proposed by the Institut International de la Marionnette in Charleville-Mezieres in summer 2013.
Regarding the workshops the commission will propose for 2014: a letter must be sent as soon as possible to all the professional training institutions asking them if they want to participate with a course or workshop to our 2014 program. Our workshop list has to be publicized by the end of July 2013, the application deadline is September 2013, and the awards will be announced in the middle of October 2013.

2. List of schools
The list of schools of professional training on the UNIMA site has to be updated. The list of professional training centers and programs has to be verified and updated as well, for each country. Irina Niculescu will do research in Romania and USA, Marthe Adam will do research in Canada and Taiwan. Each member of the commission will compile a list of professional training centers in his/her country.

3. A directory of independent master artists and teachers
The members of the commission are discussing the perspective of creating a directory of independent teaching master artists. The first step is to research and recommend the names of teaching master artists of various puppet theatre disciplines. Many institutions invite teaching artists who can travel. Which are these institutions/organizations/programs and what are their criteria? Each of the members must reflect upon and identify the teaching master artists in his/her own country, who could be listed in a directory of teaching masters in the future. The discussion will continue at the next meeting and we will take decisions concerning the creation of this directory.

4. Scandinavian project
The subject was presented by Hans (Denmark) and Svein (Norway). The Nordic Foundation agreed to finance a study for the establishment of a big puppetry school project. The project concerns several countries: the Denmark, Sweden, Island, and Norway. Hans and Svein ask our commission for advise. Marek proposed an international conference on this theme where all questions should be discussed: the management of the program, its content, length, the pedagogical approach and its professors. The experiences of the participants may be very useful. This proposal will be discussed at the next meeting of the commission in Charleville, in September 2013.

5. International conference on professional training
Irina Niculescu propose an international conference on the professional training of artists puppeteers worldwide, with the objective of making a book. This project requires a lot of preparation and we have to think of it. Could such a project interest Miguel Arreche for the next UNIMA Congress, which will take place in Tolosa, San Sebastian in 2016 ? Irina and Lucile will make a first draft of the project.

6. Summer schools
A new idea appears during the conference about organizing, in one of the already existing puppetry schools, a program which would bring together professors and students from different countries. Marek organized several summer schools of this kind in the puppet theatre in Bialystock. Marthe has very good memories of an experience of this kind with Josef Krofta in the Czech Republic. We have to think of a concept, a laboratory program, and develop this idea at the next meeting.

7. Short films
Tito proposed that each school makes a short film presenting the training process of the school and its specificity. Tito will make a first film about his school in Buenos Aires, before our next meeting. We will discuss the film and launch the idea to other schools.

8. Puppetry school encounters in the frame of the international festivals
Are these festivals connected with the UNIMA Festival Commission? How could we be informed about the festivals hosting school encounters and of the quality of these encounters ? Would the UNIMA Festival Commission whose members are festival producers, be interested in including school encounters in the program of their festivals.

9. Next meeting
The next meeting will take place in Charleville-Mezieres the 25th and 26thh of September 2013 in the morning.
The festival “Les trois jours de Casteliers” organized a round table for the festival public, on the theme: “How does the professional training contribute to the arts of puppetry”. The discussion was moderated by Irina.

Greta Bruggeman, Marthe Adam, March 2013
Translated from French by Irina Niculescu

10/12/2012

Grants for Students - 2013

The UNIMA Professional Training Commission offers, in 2013, two grants, each of 1000 Euro, to students pursuing a puppetry education, to take a course or a workshop with one of the Puppetry schools or programs cited:

1) USA: “The National Puppetry Conference”
2) France: “Puppets and animated movie”
3) China: "Chinese Shadow Classes"

1) USA - The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford - Connecticut
Title: “The National Puppetry Conference - Intensive puppetry workshop”
Objetives:
The National Puppetry Conference has the goal to create theater works that defy imagination. Over the course of 12 days, the participants collaborate with nationally and internationally renowned puppet artists, to produce innovative plays and productions. Experienced puppeteers and relative newcomers to the form explore various performance styles and techniques through workshops, master classes, and rehearsals. Throughout the conference, participants are encouraged and challenged as they explore, revise and understand the work they create here and anywhere.
Professors/Workshop leaders:
Sandy Spieler from the company Heart of the Beast Puppets, Minneapolis, James Godwin, creator of Lunatic Cunning and professor at Hunter College, Martin P. Robinson, of Sesame Street, Marionette Masters Phillip Huber and Jim Rose. Manipulation masters: Alice Bohm Gottschalk and Richard Termine. Writing advisors and Dramaturgs Robert Smythe and Roger Danforth; Character and vocal masters: Leslie Carrara Rudolph and Tyler Bunch. More to be announced.

Dates:	June 4^th - June 16^th 2013
Length:	Full time during this period
Cost:	1500 USD - Food and lodging are included in the cost of the conference
Address:	305 Great Neck Road WATERFORD, CT 06385, USA
Director of the program:	Pam Arciero*
Contact:	Email: Pamarciero@aol.com Web: http://www.theoneill.org Phone: +1. 203.820.3298
* Pam Arciero has been a professional puppeteer for over 30 years, working mainly in film and TV. She has worked on Sesame Street since 1981. She also directs for Theater and teaches at university level including the University of Hawaii, the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, and the University of Connecticut. She has Masters Degree in Puppet Arts from the University of Connecticut.

2) France, Cannes - L’Atelier d’Arketal, Centre de formation et de recherche pour les Arts de la marionnette
Title: "Puppets and animated movie"
Objetive:
This investigation workshop will lead to bringing puppets to life in front of the camera, through the realization of a short film. Outline: - Writing a storyboard from a song of the album " Sibérie m’était contée" by Manu Chao - Design the characters, the sets and the props - Construction of rod and string marionettes, sets, and props - Performing and directing, realization of sequences - Editing with MAC computer and video projector.
Professors/Workshop leaders:
Mina Trapp, Greta Bruggeman, Blai Tomas Bracquart

Dates:	March 25^th to April 26^th, 2013
Conditions and Cost:	(subject to having the sufficient number of participants): Teaching charges are offered. Housing with the local people. *Knowledge of French language necessary.*
Address:	Arketal’s Workshop - Professional training center on puppet arts 4, Impasse de la Chaumière 06400 CANNES - France
Director of the program:	Greta Bruggeman
Contact:	Email: compagniearketal@wanadoo.fr Web: http://www.arketal.com Phone: +33 (0)493 68 92 00

3) CHINA - Shanghai Theatre Academy, Puppetry Arts Program
Title: "Chinese shadow puppetry: study of performance skills and of the traditional repertoire"
Objetives:
Acquire the performing skills necessary to play traditional repertoire. Final result: The creation of a short show based on traditional repertoire.
Professor/Workshop leader:
Zhao Guangsheng (Renowned Chinese shadow puppetry artist, Primary Teacher of STA)

Dates:	March 4^th to July 1^st, 2013
Length:	4 weeks Limited Number: 5 person (Max)
Cost:	1000 Euro The participants have to cover travel, lodging and food expenses * Knowledge of Chinese language necessary
Address:	n° 211, Lianhua Street., Minhang District - SHANGHAI 201102
Chair of the Puppetry Art Program:	Zhao Genlou
Vice-Rector of International Relations:	Wang Xiaoxin
Contact:	For more information, please write to: Email: workingwangxiaoxin@hotmail.com

The candidates must fill out and send the application form before January 10^th, 2013 to: unimatrainingcom@gmail.com
Please, choose one of the workshops listed here above.

After the workshop, the recipiants of the grant must send to the Commission a short essay expressing their experience in the workshop and its benefits.

Criteriums of selection:
The candidates must be enrolled in a training program or must have finished the program no longer than 18 months prior to the application date.
The selection is based on the application documents.

The applications must contain:
- A Curriculum vitae
- A cover letter expressing:
1) The motivation to follow the chosen workshop
2) The motivation to study abroad
- A letter of recommendation written by the Director of the puppetry program of the School in which the student is enrolled.
- The filled application form

Application Form:

Word Format

Pdf Format
Fill, print and send by mail

The results of the selection will be communicated on January 15^th, 2013.

19/10/2011

Grants for Students - 2012

The UNIMA Commission of the Professional Training offers two grants of 1000 Euro each to students pursuing a puppetry education, to take a course or workshop with one of the Puppetry schools or programs cited.

The candidates must fill out and send the application form before December 31^st, 2011 to:

- Marek Waszkiel: marekwaszkiel@hotmail.com

- Marthe Adam: adam.marthe@uqam.ca

- Hans Hartvich Madsen: hans.hartvich.madsen@gmail.com

- Irina Niculescu: inniculescu@gmail.com

- Tito Lorefice: tlorefice@gmail.com

- Lucile Bodson: dir.institut@marionnette.com

- Greta Bruggeman: bruggemangreta@orange.fr

Also, they have to choose one of the workshops listed below:

1) BIALYSTOK (Poland) - Bialostocki Teatr Lalek (BTL)
Workshop: To assist in the creation process of an new production: "Black Birds of Bialystok" by Eric Bass

Dates:	March - April 2012
Length:	6 weeks
Cost:	1000 Euro (housing included)
Contact:	Marek Waszkiel BTL, Kalinowskiego 1 15-875 Bialystok Poland Email: mwaszkiel@btl.bialystok.pl
Director: Eric Bass (USA) - Stage designer: Eva Farkašová (Slovakia) This new show is a co-production between The Puppet Theatre of Bialystok (BTL), Poland and Sandglass Theatre, USA with Polish and American actors-puppeteers. Note: the work will consist in participating in the process of making the props, puppets, costumes, and assisting to the entire rehearsal period, lighting, sound design, and staging of the new prduction.

2) CANNES (France) - l’Atelier d’Arkétal
Stage: The paper theater

Dates:	February 27^th - March 9^th, 2012
Length:	70 hours over 10 days
Cost:	Teaching charges: 1160,10 Euro
Contact:	Greta Bruggeman: bruggemangreta@orange.fr
Training objectives To learn the history of Paper Theatre from its origins to its renewal To design and construct out of paper and cardboard a two-dimensional Paper Theatre, according to its original form, working from: - the text of a contemporary author - the universe of a fine artist (painter, sculptor) The participants will create and present a short sequence from the selected text. Maximum number of participants: 6 Note: This workshop is proposed to theatre professionals, puppeteers, actors, fine artists and set designers. Arketal Studio has been for ten years a place of professional training in the arts of puppetry and it is directed by Greta Bruggeman. Workshop leader: Alain Lecucq Puppeteer and director, Alain Lecucq was the first in France to rediscover the Paper Theatre, a theatre form originally shown in parlors during the ninteenth century. Recognized as one of the few world experts in paper theatre, Alain Lecucq chose to revive this art form by creating contemporary works. He created and directs the International Meeting of Paper Theatre in Pays d'Epernay (Champagne, France).

3) MONTRÉAL (Canada) - École Supérieure de Théâtre de l’Université du Québec à Montréal
Directing workshop, course given in the frame of the DESS in contemporary puppet theatre

Dates:	March 14^th - April 13^th, 2012
Length:	5 weeks
Cost:	1160 euros including boarding
Contact:	Marthe Adam: adam.marthe@uqam.ca
Course objectives Examine the tools of the director. Experiment with new theatre forms and the application of innovative directing techniques. Reflect upon the divers possible choices in the creation of a theatrical piece using puppets: the types of puppets, the meaning given to the performing objects, the kind of manipulation, the creation of images, the relation between text, stage image, and acting/performing, the relation with the audience. Note: This course is a hands-on workshop that alternates between traditional and new forms of puppetry, between theory and practice. The students will create personal and group projects going through the stages of: research, conception, elaboration of scenarios and fabrication of the necessary tools: puppets, objects, virtual imagery or/and film. Maximum length: 7 minutes. Teacher: Irina Niculescu Irina Niculescu received a master’s degree in directing from the Academy of Theater, Film, and Music in Prague. She began her work at Tandarica Puppet Theatre in Bucharest, Romania. She has since directed shows in Norway, Switzerland, and other theatres across Europe, in the USA, and Canada. She created a training program for professional puppeteers at Riksteatret, Oslo, and taught in many schools and professional training programs such as: IATC (Institute of Theatre Art and Cinema) in Bucharest, the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut, Instituto de Teatro of Seville, the ESNAM (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette) in Charleville-Mézières, and also in the Théâtre du Grutli in Geneva.

4) BUENOS AIRES (Argentina) - Universidad Nacional de San Martín
Workshop: To attend the last trimestre of a training course in puppet theatre

Dates:	From August to November 2012
Length:	16 weeks
Cost:	1000 Euro
Contact:	Tito Lorefice: tlorefice@gmail.com , arte@unsam.edu.ar
Content: To participate in the professional training during the final period of the Degree in puppetry and object theatre. To assist in the process of staging the different student productions, and assist in the rehearsals during the entire process. The work will be guided by the professors: Mauricio Kartun, Ana Alvarado, Daniel Veronese, Tito Lorefice, Walter Cenci, Jorge Dubatti and Ale Bracchi.

5) NYKOBING (Denmark) - Scenekunstens Udviklingscenter/Odsherred Teaterskole
Workshop with Duda Païva: Animated Movement

Dates:	June 4-8^th, 2012
Length:	4 days
Cost:	350 Euro
Contact:	Scenekunstens Udviklingscenter/Odsherreds Teaterskole Danish Center for Performing Arts Annebergparken, 22 4500 Nykøbing Sj. Denmark Hans Hartvich-Madsen - email: hans@otcenter.dk
Content: Duda Paiva, founder of his own company, the Duda Paiva Company, pioneers a new movement concept that animates and extends the performer’s body language, blending it with contemporary dance and puppet manipulation to create a poetic and fluid illusion that provoques as much as it entertains. The technique suits the dancer and the physical actor to establish a deeper connection between the object and the manipulator, using movement and voice as narrative tools in a specific form of choregraphy for two bodies that function under the direction of one mind.

6) CHARLEVILLE-MÉZIÈRES (France) - Institut International de la Marionnette
"Material and movement", directed by Frank Soehnle, in collaboration with Karin Ould Chih (Figuren Theater Tübingen - Germany)

Dates:	July 10 to 27, 2012
Length:	about 15 days
Cost:	1000 Euro
Content: It will be detalled later

"On the theatrical vocation of shadow theatre (level II): the creation of a shadow performance", directed by Fabrizio Montecchi (Teatro Gioco Vita - Italy)

Dates:	August 21 to September 7, 2012
Length:	about 15 days
Cost:	1000 Euro
Content: It will be detalled later

Contact:

Lucile Bodson
Institut International de la Marionnette
7, Place Winston Churchill
08000 Charleville-Mézières
France
Email: dir.institut@marionnette.com

Criteriums of selection
The candidates must be enrolled in a training program, or must have finished their studies within the 18 months prior to the application date, in one of the schools appearing in the list given in the international UNIMA website

The selection is based on the application documents.

The applications must contain:
-·A curriculum vitae
- A cover letter expressing:
1. the motivation to follow the chosen workshop
2. the motivation to do it abroad
-·A letter of recommendation written by the director of the puppetry program of the School in which the student is enrolled
-·The application form

After the workshop, the recipiants of the grants must send to the Commission a short report expressing what was their experience and his benefits during the workshop.

The results of the selection will be communicated January 15^th, 2012

See the Application Form

7/11/2010

Grants for Students - 2011

The UNIMA Commission for Professional Training offers three grants of 1000 euros each to students pursuing a puppetry training or post-training and to the students that have finished a puppetry education program 18 months prior to the date of the grant application, to take a course or workshop with one of the Puppetry schools or programs listed below:

1.) Argentina, Buenos Aires
A complete course of puppetry of 8 months (5 days a week) in the Department of Puppetry and performing objects Training, National University of San Martin

Dates:	1^st April to 30^th November 2011
Price:	The course is free (housing and all other expenses are covered by the student)
Contact:	Unidad Académica de las Artes, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Martín de Irigoyen 3100, San Martin CP1650, Buenos Aires - Argentina - arte@unsam.edu.ar
Director:	Tito Lorefice - titolorefice@yahoo.com.ar

2.) Thailand, Chiangmai
Workshop about manipulation of traditional Burmese string marionettes

Dates:	June / July 2011 (3 weeks - Application deadline: March 30^th)
Price:	1000 euros
Contact:	Empty Space Chiangmai, 69 Moo 5, Ban Nongha, Numborluang Sunpatong, Chiangmai 50120 - Thailand
Director:	Manuel Lutgenhorst - mlutg@yahoo.com

3.) Canada, Montreal
The power of the puppet (workshop with Neville Tranter, Stuffed Puppet Theatre, Amsterdam - The Netherlands)

Dates:	March 7-18, 2011
Price:	1000 euros
Contact:	École Supérieure de Théâtre, Université du Québec à Montréal, Case Postale 8888, Succursale C, Montréal H3C 3P8,(Québec) - Canada
Director:	Marthe Adam - adam.marthe@uqam.ca

4.) France, Cannes
Workshop about stage design course after philosophical tales adapted to a small shape with Julia Skuratova, Lithuania, and Greta Bruggeman, France).
- Conception of the set design model and characters with Julia Skuratova (from 7^th to 18^th March 2011).
- Realization of the set design model and puppets building with Greta Bruggeman (from 21^st March to 1^st April)

Dates:	March 7 - April 2011
Price:	1000 euros (free lodging with people)
Contact:	L’Atelier d’Arketal 4, Impasse de la Chaumière F06401 Cannes Cedex - France
Director:	Greta Bruggeman - compagniearketal@wanadoo.fr

5.) France, Charleville-Mézières
a) "Masks and Puppets" directed by Jaime LORCA (Chili) from 6^t^h to 28^th July 2011 (20 days of workshop).
b) "The art de Punch et Judy", directed by Rod BURNETT (Great Britain) from 17^th Agust to 2^nd September 2011 (15 days of workshop).

Dates:	Summer 2011
Price:	a) 1300 euros b) 1000 euros
Contact:	Institut International de la Marionnette 7, Place Winston Churchill 08000 Charleville-Mézières - France
Director:	Lucile Bodson - dir.institut@marionnette.com

6.) Poland, Bialystok
A course of 3 months at The Theatre Academy (participation in the training of the puppeteers)

Dates:	March-May or October-December 2011
Price:	1000 euros (housing included)
Contact:	Aleksander Zelwerowicz State Theatre Academy in Warsaw, Faculty of Puppetry Arts in Bialystok, 15-092 Bialystok, Sienkiewicza 14 - Poland
Director:	Wieslaw Czolpinski - dziekanat@atb.edu.pl

7.) Poland, Bialystok
Workshop and participation to the creation process of a new performance in Bialostocki Teatr Lalek

Dates:	End of August-October 2011 (Romeo and Juliette by Ruslan Kudashov, Russia), October-November 2011 (Antigone by Fabrizio Montecchi, Italy)
Price:	1000 euros (housing included)
Contact:	Bialostocki Teatr Lalek, 15-875 Bialystok, Kalinowskiego 1 - Poland
Director:	Marek Waszkiel - mwaszkiel@btl.bialystok.pl

The applications must contain:
- Curriculum vitae
- Cover letter
- Letter of recommendation written by the Director of the school/program in which the student is enrolled
- Application form completed

The applications for the year 2011 have to be sent before January 31^st, 2011 to the following addresses:
1.) Irina Niculescu - inniculescu@gmail.com

2.) Hans Hartvich Madsen - hans.hartvich.madsen@gmail.com

3.) Tito Lorefice - titolorefice@yahoo.com.ar

4.) Marek Waszkiel - marekwaszkiel@hotmail.com

See the Application Form

25/05/2010

Report of the Professional Training Commission

2008-2010

The members of the Commission:

Marek Waszkiel, president (Poland), Marthe Adam (Canada), Lucile Bodson (France), John T. Bell (USA), Greta Bruggeman (France), Hans Hartvich-Madsen (Denmark), Tito Lorefice (Argentina), Athanase Kabre (Burkina Faso), Shu-Ming Ju (Taiwan), Jing Xian Wang (China, till 2009), Irina Niculescu (USA, since 2009).

The meetings:

I. Bialystok (Poland), June, 23-24, 2008 during the IV International Festival of Puppetry Schools in Bialystok (with the participation of the representants of the puppetry schools and General Secretary of UNIMA)

II. S. Petersburg (Russia), June 22-26, 2009 during the festival　KUKART

III. Charleville-Mézières (France), September 22-25, 2009 during the Festival Mondial des Marionnettes

Projects realised:

1. Actualisation of the list of puppetry schools which offer training in puppetry art
We complited the list of more then 60 institutions which offer the permanent training in puppetry art

2. Preparation of the questionnaire for the puppetry schools
The questionnaire was sent to the schools in 2008; we received 32 full answers from 26 countries

3. Preparation of the list of the professional workshops offered by the institutions/compagnies
We started to create the list in 2009; till the end of the 2009
We recieved 8 answers from 6 contries; the list is still open

4. Actualisation of the list of the training places on the UNIMA website
On the http://www.unima.org you can see the full list of the schools and first preliminary list of the professional workshops

5. Grants for students 2010

Starting on September 2009 (after the EC decission to offer 2000 euros to each Commission) we decided to create two grants (1000 euros each one) for students for 2010 to participate in the workshops/studing in different countries.

After the competition of applications the Commission dicided to offer the grants to the students from Tunis and Israel to participate in the chosen workshops.

Dr. Marek Waszkiel

20/11/2009

From September 2009, with Irina Niculescu - USA, the UNIMA Professional Training Commission 2008-2012 accounts with a new member.
Also some member asked to update his personal datas. So, we publish again the full list of the members of the Commission.

The UNIMA Professional Training Commission 2008-2012

President:
Dr. Marek Waszkiel (Poland)
Bialostocki Teatr Lalek
Kalinowskiego 1
15-875 Bialystok, Poland
cell: +48 603 684 339
phone/fax: +48 (0)85 742 86 31
home: +48 (0)85 878 98 68
email: mwaszkiel@btl.bialystok.pl / marekwaszkiel@hotmail.com

Marthe Adam (Canada)
École Supérieure de Théâtre
Université du Québec à Montréal
Case postale 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville
Montréal (Québec) H3C 3P8, Canada
phone: +514 987 3000 poste 8456
phone: +514 495 9000 (home)
fax +514 987 7881
email: adam.marthe@uqam.ca

John T. Bell (USA)
Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry and Great Small Works
100 Jackson Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02140 USA
cell: 617 599 3250
home: 617 497 9889
email: john.bell.puppeteer@gmail.com

Lucile Bodson (France)
Institut International de la Marionnette
7, Place Winston Churchill
08000 Charleville-Mézières, France
phone: +33 (0)3 24 33 72 50
fax: +33 (0)3 24 33 72 69
email: dir.institut@marionnette.com

Greta Bruggeman (France)
Compagnie ARKETAL
BP 17
06401 Cannes Cedex, France
phone: +33 (0)4 93 68 92 00
email: bruggemangreta@orange.fr

Hans Hartvich-Madsen (Denmark)
President of UNIMA Demark: hansh@unima.dk
Klitvejen 40
7700 Thisted, Denmark
or
Danish Centre for Performing Arts - Head of Puppetry Department
Annebergparken 22,
4500 Nykøbing Sjælland, Denmark
http://www.otcenter.dk
email: hans@otcenter.dk / hans.hartvich.madsen@gmail.com

Irina Niculescu (USA)
director/producer/teacher
3127 Ferguson Road
Cincinnati, Ohio 45211, USA
phone: +1 513 878 9734
email: inniculescu@gmail.com

Shu-Ming Ju (Taiwan)
Song Song Song Children's & Puppet Theatre
No.52, Lane 308, Sec 3, Hoping E Rd. Taipei 106, Taiwan, R.O.C.
phone: +886-2-27389859 ext.100
fax: +886-2-27361184
home: +886-936-054406
email: song0001@ms4.hinet.net / song1@9s.org.tw

Athanase Kabre (Burkina Faso)
UNIMA BURKINA FASO
01 BP 561 Ouagadougou 01, Burkina Faso
phone : (+226) 78 81 59 00
fax : (+226) 50 30 60 99
email: lefil1@yahoo.fr

Tito Lorefice (Argentina)
CIPTO - Centro Titeres Escuela de Humanidades
Universidad Nacional de San Martin
Martín de Irigoyen 3100, San Martín
CP 1650, Argentina
email: titolorefice@yahoo.com.ar / dtiteres@unsam.edu.ar

8/07/2008

Report of the Professional Training Commission
Bialystok, Poland, June, 23-24, 2008

and meeting with the representants of the puppetry schools and General Secretary of UNIMA
Bialystok, Poland, June 27th, 2008

The members of the Commission are: Marek Waszkiel, president (Poland), Marthe Adam (Canada), Lucile Bodson (France), John T. Bell (USA), Greta Bruggeman (France), Hans Hartvich-Madsen (Denmark), Tito Lorefice (Argentina), Athanase Kabre (Burkina Faso), Shu-Ming Ju (Taiwan).

Present at the meeting:
Marek Waszkiel, Greta Bruggeman, Hans Hartvich-Madsen and Marthe Adam.

Excuses: Lucile Bodson, John T. Bell, Tito Lorefice, Shu-Ming Ju.

Invited person: Pal Lengyel (Hungary), Albert Bagno (Italy) and Ida Hledikova-Polivkova (Slovaquia).

Points discussed:
1) Actualise the list of schools that offer training in puppetry art wether they are universities, institute or private schools.

A list was published in the 2000 "Blue Book" of UNIMA.
In 2004, another list was made by the Training Commission and published by the Puppetry School in Turku, Finland but very few copies were available.

We made a first draft of the questionnaire:

Questionnaire for the schools

Name of the school

Adress of the school

Statute of the school:
     University
     Private school
     Institute

Which grade

Name and references of the director

What is the duration of the training

What is the training program: repartitions of the courses

What are the training specialities

How many students are admitted to the program

What is the frequency of the admissions

What is the total number of students in the program

What are the admission conditions: diplomas, auditions, experience

How many teachers intervene in the program

How are the teachers selected

What are the specialities of the teachers

What facilities your school offers: wood shop, library, scenography worshops, theaters, repetition local,

Number of practical courses versus theorique courses

At the end of the training, what diploma do the students obtain

Are there any complementary trainings to this diploma

Do your institution receive students from other countries ?

What are the facilities offered to them: bourseries, work possibilities, appartement facilities ?

What are the services offered to then teachers

Does the school publish texts and researches on a website or school publisher

What is the adress of the website

2) a - Actualise the list of festivals that offer professionnal workshops.
b - Identify the festivals that give UNIMA scholarships to students.
These two questions will be asked to the president of the Festival Commission.

3) Make a list of the professionnal workshops offered by the compagnies
How could we:
1. Obtain such a list ?
2. Judge of the quality of the artist or the company that offers the workshop ? We did not answer these questions for the moment.

4) Make a list of institutions and companies that offer residences
For exemple, Villa d’Aubilly in Charleville-Mézières, France.

5) Make a list of the artists that offer professionnal worshops in different puppetry specializations
How do we start such a process knowing that we probably would have to measure the quality of either the work of the artist and of his teaching ?
Do we establish a list at random and let potential students decide ?
Firstly, maybe one of us can pay attention to the worshops that are given in their country or regions and start to identify who is doing what.

6) Les Etats Généraux des Saisons de la Marionnette de l’Association THEEMA (UNIMA France) Section formation
Greta Bruggeman informs us of the reunions that took place and will be taking place between 2007 and 2010. Theema has been conducting an action (Les Saisons de La Marionnette) for the perenity of puppetry arts.
Many working groups have been formed and one of those is working on profesionnal training.
A document was made public and you will find the resume of this paper following this paragrah.

Sommaire
Synthèse
Introduction: Formation professionnelle

1ère partie: Sensibilisation et premières approches
1.1 - Relation avec le milieu scolaire (maternelle, primaire et collège)
1.2 - Formation de formateurs : enseignants et animateurs sont des relais privilégiés
1.3 - Formation en lycée (L3)
1.4 - La place des arts de la marionnette dans le schéma départemental ou régional de formations artistiques
1.5 - Les études de théâtre à l’Université

2ème partie: La formation initiale Supérieure
2.1 - La formation dispensée à l’Esnam
2.2 - Comment penser et préparer l’après diplôme ?
2.3 - Entre formation et mise en réseau: des dispositifs afin d’accompagner un parcours d’insertion professionnelle
2.4 - Favoriser la mobilité des élèves et des enseignants : les contacts avec les autres écoles supérieures
2.5 - Un réseau d’Ecoles supérieures des Arts de la Marionnette en Europe et dans le monde
2.5.2 - Les autres Ecoles artistiques supérieures en France

3ème partie : La formation professionnelle continue
3.1 - Vers un réseau national de formation professionnelle continue : les compagnies et le compagnonnage
3.2 - Le Diplôme d’Etat (DE) et le Certificat d’Aptitude (CA)

7) Propositions of Lucile Bodson
She thinks that one of the priorities should be that we work on the mobility of students and teachers that are outside Europe. For exemple we could organise an itinerant summer academy.

8) Meeting of the Training Commission of UNIMA at the 2009 Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes of Charleville-Mézières

9) A date and a place for another meeting before Charleville-Mézières
It would be appropriate that we meet during an event somewhere between november 2008 and february 2009.
We are thinking of this possibily and will discuss it soon.

ADDITIONAL MEETING DURING THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PUPPETRY SCHOOLS IN BIALYSTOK, June 27th, 2008

Present: Jacques Trudeau (Canada), Henryk Jurkowski (Poland), David Burman (Russia), Marek Waszkiel (Poland)

Teachers and participants of the festival: Igor Zaykin (Russia), Johanna Niedermüller (Germany), Mihaela Tiuleva (Bulgaria), Anastassia Savinova (Bulgaria), Svetlana Buzova (Russia), Penny Francis (Great Britain), Cariad Astles (Great Britain), Frank Becker (Germany), Ingo Manes (Germany), Markus Juss (Germany), Julia Skuratova (Lithuania), Beata Pejcz (Poland), Anna Ivanova (Finland), Albert Bagno (Italy), Giordano Sangiovanni (Italy), Fiorano Rancati (Italy), Janos Meczner (Hungary) Marica Mikulova (Slovakia), Leslaw Piecka (Poland).

PROPOSALS:
1) David Burman (director of the KUKART festival, St. Petersburg, Russia): proposition to make a special line for the puppetry schools presentation during the next edition of KUKART festival, in June 2009 in St. Petersburg : meeting of the schools from Russia, from all over the world, meeting of the Trainning Commission and the conference about the training problems;

2) Penny Francis (London School of Speach and Drama) : to organize a meeting of the teachers for presentation of differents methods of training;

3) Igor Zaykin (St. Petersburg Academy of Performing Arts, Russia): during the next edition of the KUKART the St. Petersburg school can propose the workshops presenting their methods;

4) Anna Ivanova (Turku school of puppetry art, Finland): to organize an international workshop before the international festival for some students from different countries on the base of Erasmus exchange programme;

5) Anastassia Savinova (NATFIZ, Sofia, Bulgaria): to create a platform of permanent exchanging of the ideas, methods of training (meetings, workshops, publications);

6) Jacques Trudeau (Canada): annoncment that in 2010, during the Council Meeting of UNIMA in Dordrecht, The Netherlands, is planned full 1 day for the matters of trainning;

7) Wojciech Kobrzynski (Theatre Academy, Bialystok, Poland): we can start with publications on our own web sites the full programme of the trainning in our own schools (the list of subjects);

Theoretical questions:
8) Henryk Jurkowski (Poland): to create an international research project why the young people are chosing the puppet professions;

9) Albert Bagno (Italy): - how to teach the teachers; - danger situation in the countries without the long tradition for the puppetry training: the students start to teach; - how to teach those, who use puppets in other activity (pedagogical, therapeutic, etc..).

8/07/2008

The UNIMA Professional Training Commission 2008-2012

Greta Bruggeman (France)
Compagnie ARKETAL
BP 17
06401 Cannes Cedex, France
phone: +33 (0)4 93 68 92 00
email: bruggemangreta@orange.fr

Hans Hartvich-Madsen (Denmark)
Thy Teater
Håndværker torv 1
7700 Thistro, Denmark
phone: +45 97 96 01 00
fax: +45 40 54 13 21
~~email: hans@thyteater.dk~~

Athanase Kabre (Burkina Faso)
UNIMA BURKINA FASO
01 BP 561 Ouagadougou 01, Burkina Faso
phone : (+226) 78 81 59 00
fax : (+226) 50 30 60 99
email: lefil1@yahoo.fr

30/04/2008

Our first meeting will be held in Bialystok, Poland, on June 23 2008 as part of the 55^th anniversary of the BTL (20-22/06/08) and during the International Festival of the Schools of Puppetry in Bialystok (24-29/06/08).
Details about the activities of this Commission shall be debated in this meeting.