【2022 Weiwuying Circus Platform】CNAC New Magic Masterclass
The hybrid nature of circus aesthetics presents abundant cross-disciplinary energy in contemporary times. Among them, "magic" is a classic of spectacle, which can also add mystery to the performance. "CNAC National Circus Art Center – New Magic Master Class," will cover the areas of understanding magic and new magic, the role of new magic plays, and the development and application of new magic in contemporary circus. This professional workshop will lead participants to explore the possibility of creating new kinetic energy with new magic. Furthermore, to develop and combine the skills of new magic in their performance to apply them to other fields and develop a unique creative style!
Schedule
Date | 12/5 (Mon.) | 12/6 (Tue.) | 12/7 (Wed.) | 12/8 (Thu.) |
09:30—12:30 | Theoretical lessons on new magic Valentine LOSSEAU | Practical creative workshops to discover new magic Arthur CHAVAUDRET | Theoretical lessons on new magic Valentine LOSSEAU | |
12:30—14:00 | Break | |||
14:00—17:00 | Practical creative workshops to discover new magic Arthur CHAVAUDRET | Practical creative workshops to discover new magic Arthur CHAVAUDRET | Theoretical lessons on new magic Valentine LOSSEAU |
- Course Date:
From December 5 (Mon) to December 8 (Thu), 2022. The course will last for four days, There is a 90-minute break at noon. Classes will be taught in French, with Chinese interpretation available on-site. - Class Location: Paint Shop
- Course target:
18 years old or above, with experience in live performing arts (such as circus performers, comedians, dancers, magicians, puppeteers, musicians, etc.), stage designers, directors, drama Constructors, or those interested in magic. - Course Fee:
NT$3,000 (13 candidates will be selected, and three will be on the waiting list for admission. Only selected candidates need to pay for the class.)
Curriculum Goal
Develop the magic and new magic : its context, history, its shows…
Complete everyone's artistic repertoire
Integrate artistic purpose, creativity, emotion, and expressiveness into magic
Initiate, and practice a few simple elements of magic to understand the artistic possibilities
Course Guidelines
This four-day training is an awareness and in-depth discovery of the world of new magic. It allows each participant to broaden their artistic culture, practice a creative activity, and arouse their curiosity thanks to the structured interventions of a teacher and a well-established artist in the field of new magic. It is a concrete, theoretical and practical journey through the magic world.
This workshop provides a transversal entry into "new magic" by showing thematic conferences and video presentations of new magic shows. The participants can also discover new magic art in full revival, which originated at the CNAC, thanks to his unique training in new magic ("magic writing" and "magic creation") of 280 hours for ten years. With two magic professionals (one playwright and the other author and performer), this workshop will feed everyone's imagination of new magic!
Course Content
1. Theoretical Lessons on New Magic
Instructor: Valentine LOSSEAU
New Magic is an artistic movement initiated in France that has accompanied magical creation's dynamism for fifteen years. More than a hundred companies in France and worldwide participate in this creative network by surveying different aesthetic territories.
Who are the artists to animate and develop the New Magic? What are the theoretical bases of this movement? This class will explore horizons as diverse as circus arts, puppetry, theatre, dance, visual arts, music, fashion, gastronomy…etc.
New Magic is part of the dynamics of interdisciplinarity at the crossroads of the arts and the public. It has existed since 2006 at the Center National des Arts du Cirque. Valentine LOSSEAU, one of the initiators of the “New Magic” movement and training at the CNAC, will present the history, the work of various companies, the dramaturgy, and theoretical and creative bases to interest artists from all disciplines.
2. Practical Creative Workshops to Discover New Magic
Instructor: Arthur CHAVAUDRET
The educational system of the CNAC is based on the encounter of magic with the other arts, in particular, the performing arts. Depending on the candidates' skills, motivation, and material available, they can try simple magic elements with thread, ... to develop new creativity.
3. Teaching Method:
Observation, description, and discussion
Supervised and improvised practical magic exercises
Research workshop
Instructor
Valentine LOSSEAU
Playwright of 14 :20, Anthropologist
Theoretical Lessons on New Magic
Magician, author, director, and anthropologist, Valentine co-writes company shows Monster(s) / Etienne SAGLIO and The Absent / Yann FRISCH, and collaborates with visual artist Prune NOURRY, Blizzard Concept, In, the RED trio… As an anthropologist, she has lived several months every year in the Mexican rainforest with Mayan populations since 2008. Specialized in the study of symbolic ecology, she organizes conferences, publications, meetings and international exhibitions of artists and researchers. She is an associate artist at the Théâtre de la Madeleine in Troyes and at the Pôle 2 cirques in Cherbourg. In 2018, she received the SACD award for the author of the year for Circus Arts.
Arthur CHAVAUDRET
Magician / Manipulator
Practical Creative Workshops to Discover New Magic
Born in 1989, Arthur discovers the practice that will be his profession at 9: magic. After training in new magic at the CNAC Châlons-en-Champagne, he now questions the production and the definition of magic: What does magic depend on? Based on what people would believe that something is magical? To broaden his horizons, he collaborates with many artists. For example, he is an outside consultant for Yann FRISCH on the Baltasset creations Le Paradoxe de Georges and Jean-Christophe DOLLE on Handball and Je vole. He was also a "magic advisor" for David BLAINE on the TV show Beyond Magic in Los Angeles in 2016 and even a magic consultant in 2018 with the Comédie-Française to create FAUST by Valentine LOSSEAU and Raphaël NAVARRO. For his practice, he works closely with Cie 14:20 by Clément DEBAILLEUL and Raphaël NAVARRO, and he is a magic technician on stage on Nous, rêveurs definitives at the Théâtre du Rond-Point in 2016, a magician on Terabak de Kyiv by Stéphane RICORDEL in 2018. He has provided close-up shows since 2015, at the 360° Festival, the Art Rock Festival and events such as Roland Garros, Hermès, Fiat, Radio Nova...etc. He has been associated with the Comète since the autumn of 2020.
Centre National des Arts du Cirque, CNAC
The National Center for Circus Arts, an international reference establishment, was created in 1985 by the Ministry of Culture and Communication. It consists of a centre for higher education in circus arts and a centre for documentation, study, and research. The CNAC, an international reference centre, anchored on its territory, defends the values of the circus spirit, including rigour, self-control, a sense of community, and respect for others. Through the excellent training it provides, its ambition is to be at the forefront of pedagogical, artistic and technical innovation, to put itself even more at the service of its students, researchers and circus professionals and, more broadly, live performance.
Presenter: National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), Centre National des Arts du Cirque, CNAC
Special Thanks:
【2022 Weiwuying Circus Platform】CNAC New Magic Masterclass
The hybrid nature of circus aesthetics presents abundant cross-disciplinary energy in contemporary times. Among them, "magic" is a classic of spectacle, which can also add mystery to the performance. "CNAC National Circus Art Center – New Magic Master Class," will cover the areas of understanding magic and new magic, the role of new magic plays, and the development and application of new magic in contemporary circus. This professional workshop will lead participants to explore the possibility of creating new kinetic energy with new magic. Furthermore, to develop and combine the skills of new magic in their performance to apply them to other fields and develop a unique creative style!
Schedule
Date | 12/5 (Mon.) | 12/6 (Tue.) | 12/7 (Wed.) | 12/8 (Thu.) |
09:30—12:30 | Theoretical lessons on new magic Valentine LOSSEAU | Practical creative workshops to discover new magic Arthur CHAVAUDRET | Theoretical lessons on new magic Valentine LOSSEAU | |
12:30—14:00 | Break | |||
14:00—17:00 | Practical creative workshops to discover new magic Arthur CHAVAUDRET | Practical creative workshops to discover new magic Arthur CHAVAUDRET | Theoretical lessons on new magic Valentine LOSSEAU |
- Course Date:
From December 5 (Mon) to December 8 (Thu), 2022. The course will last for four days, There is a 90-minute break at noon. Classes will be taught in French, with Chinese interpretation available on-site. - Class Location: Paint Shop
- Course target:
18 years old or above, with experience in live performing arts (such as circus performers, comedians, dancers, magicians, puppeteers, musicians, etc.), stage designers, directors, drama Constructors, or those interested in magic. - Course Fee:
NT$3,000 (13 candidates will be selected, and three will be on the waiting list for admission. Only selected candidates need to pay for the class.)
Curriculum Goal
Develop the magic and new magic : its context, history, its shows…
Complete everyone's artistic repertoire
Integrate artistic purpose, creativity, emotion, and expressiveness into magic
Initiate, and practice a few simple elements of magic to understand the artistic possibilities
Course Guidelines
This four-day training is an awareness and in-depth discovery of the world of new magic. It allows each participant to broaden their artistic culture, practice a creative activity, and arouse their curiosity thanks to the structured interventions of a teacher and a well-established artist in the field of new magic. It is a concrete, theoretical and practical journey through the magic world.
This workshop provides a transversal entry into "new magic" by showing thematic conferences and video presentations of new magic shows. The participants can also discover new magic art in full revival, which originated at the CNAC, thanks to his unique training in new magic ("magic writing" and "magic creation") of 280 hours for ten years. With two magic professionals (one playwright and the other author and performer), this workshop will feed everyone's imagination of new magic!
Course Content
1. Theoretical Lessons on New Magic
Instructor: Valentine LOSSEAU
New Magic is an artistic movement initiated in France that has accompanied magical creation's dynamism for fifteen years. More than a hundred companies in France and worldwide participate in this creative network by surveying different aesthetic territories.
Who are the artists to animate and develop the New Magic? What are the theoretical bases of this movement? This class will explore horizons as diverse as circus arts, puppetry, theatre, dance, visual arts, music, fashion, gastronomy…etc.
New Magic is part of the dynamics of interdisciplinarity at the crossroads of the arts and the public. It has existed since 2006 at the Center National des Arts du Cirque. Valentine LOSSEAU, one of the initiators of the “New Magic” movement and training at the CNAC, will present the history, the work of various companies, the dramaturgy, and theoretical and creative bases to interest artists from all disciplines.
2. Practical Creative Workshops to Discover New Magic
Instructor: Arthur CHAVAUDRET
The educational system of the CNAC is based on the encounter of magic with the other arts, in particular, the performing arts. Depending on the candidates' skills, motivation, and material available, they can try simple magic elements with thread, ... to develop new creativity.
3. Teaching Method:
Observation, description, and discussion
Supervised and improvised practical magic exercises
Research workshop
Instructor
Valentine LOSSEAU
Playwright of 14 :20, Anthropologist
Theoretical Lessons on New Magic
Magician, author, director, and anthropologist, Valentine co-writes company shows Monster(s) / Etienne SAGLIO and The Absent / Yann FRISCH, and collaborates with visual artist Prune NOURRY, Blizzard Concept, In, the RED trio… As an anthropologist, she has lived several months every year in the Mexican rainforest with Mayan populations since 2008. Specialized in the study of symbolic ecology, she organizes conferences, publications, meetings and international exhibitions of artists and researchers. She is an associate artist at the Théâtre de la Madeleine in Troyes and at the Pôle 2 cirques in Cherbourg. In 2018, she received the SACD award for the author of the year for Circus Arts.
Arthur CHAVAUDRET
Magician / Manipulator
Practical Creative Workshops to Discover New Magic
Born in 1989, Arthur discovers the practice that will be his profession at 9: magic. After training in new magic at the CNAC Châlons-en-Champagne, he now questions the production and the definition of magic: What does magic depend on? Based on what people would believe that something is magical? To broaden his horizons, he collaborates with many artists. For example, he is an outside consultant for Yann FRISCH on the Baltasset creations Le Paradoxe de Georges and Jean-Christophe DOLLE on Handball and Je vole. He was also a "magic advisor" for David BLAINE on the TV show Beyond Magic in Los Angeles in 2016 and even a magic consultant in 2018 with the Comédie-Française to create FAUST by Valentine LOSSEAU and Raphaël NAVARRO. For his practice, he works closely with Cie 14:20 by Clément DEBAILLEUL and Raphaël NAVARRO, and he is a magic technician on stage on Nous, rêveurs definitives at the Théâtre du Rond-Point in 2016, a magician on Terabak de Kyiv by Stéphane RICORDEL in 2018. He has provided close-up shows since 2015, at the 360° Festival, the Art Rock Festival and events such as Roland Garros, Hermès, Fiat, Radio Nova...etc. He has been associated with the Comète since the autumn of 2020.
Centre National des Arts du Cirque, CNAC
The National Center for Circus Arts, an international reference establishment, was created in 1985 by the Ministry of Culture and Communication. It consists of a centre for higher education in circus arts and a centre for documentation, study, and research. The CNAC, an international reference centre, anchored on its territory, defends the values of the circus spirit, including rigour, self-control, a sense of community, and respect for others. Through the excellent training it provides, its ambition is to be at the forefront of pedagogical, artistic and technical innovation, to put itself even more at the service of its students, researchers and circus professionals and, more broadly, live performance.
Presenter: National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), Centre National des Arts du Cirque, CNAC
Special Thanks: