Writer Sandro William Junqueira will promote a Dramatic Expression workshop aimed at young people aged 8 to 14, on Saturday, at the Municipal Library of Silves.
The workshop starts at 15 pm and is part of the “Saturdays in the family” initiative.
This will be the first of a series of sessions with the same theme, which aim to "give young people the opportunity to experience the art of the stage, training diction, body posture and text interpretation, among other components of training an actor" . The following sessions take place on March 28th and May 30th.
«I believe that Dramatic Expression as a Theatrical platform is an essential instrument for a better understanding of what we are, what others are, the world and the times in which we live. It is a unique place of individual and social knowledge; of sharing and exchange; where we can, as actors and spectators, question ourselves, and what surrounds us, in order to build or transform. To find and amplify what defines us as human beings», considers Sandro William Junqueira.
More information about the initiative can be collected from the Municipal Library of Silves by calling 282 442 112 or by email [email protected].
About the Workshop:
The game is a privileged means of expression and learning that allows a great investment in the use of imagination. In this Workshop, the proposal of symbolic and fictional games will give young people the opportunity to play different roles and to put into practice all their motor, aesthetic, creative, intellectual and social behavior skills.
It is through the game, and the performance of these roles, that students will be able to enter the fictional world, of imagination, of make-believe.
Dramatic play allows the expression of individual and collective sensations or feelings. To do so, young people will thus appeal to different means of expression and discover their different potentials.
About Sandro William Junqueira:
He was a graphic designer in several studios from 2001 to 2007.
He founded the theater group “A drawer” in 2000, a group in which he played the role of artistic director in professional terms from 2006 to 2009.
He received theatrical training with actors Ana Baião and Pedro Ramos from the Algarve Theater Company (ACTA), and directors James Daker and Anthony Banks from the National Theater in London.
As an actor, he worked with the directors Figueira Cid (Cendrev), Manuel Coelho (D. Maria II National Theater), Prof. José Louro and João de Ávila, interpreting authors such as Nicolau Machiavelli, Vaclav Havel, A J. Gurney, Javier Tomeo, Nuno Júdice, Fernando Pessoa, among others.
He made his professional staging debut in 2007, at Teatro da Trindade, with the show “Dois Senhors – a play in two days”, based on texts by Gonçalo M. Tavares. He also staged the monologue “Primeiro Amor” based on the homonymous novel by Samuel Beckett (Teatro da Trindade – 2008), and the play “A Gente Sã do Campo” based on tales by Flannery O'Connor. Show that premiered at Capa – Center for Performing Arts of the Algarve, in 2009, in Faro.
As the person responsible for teaching Dramatic Expression in the Schools Group, Eng.º Nuno Mergulhão, from 2009 to 2013, created the group “sexta insomnia” with the students of the group. Group with which he participated in four editions of the Culturgest PANOS Festival, featuring the texts “Sons of Assassins” by Katory Hall, “Os Avôs” by Rory Mullarkey, “Ester” by Rui Catalão, and “O Hotel” by Gonçalo M. Tavares. Stages always selected by the PANOS jury for the festival's final show at Culturgest.
From 2006 to 2009 he was the creator and interpreter of numerous projects and workshops to promote books and reading that were part of the itineraries of the General Directorate of Books and Libraries (DGLB): “Ode”, “O Cor-de-rosa é o red slowly”, “Book that barks does not bite”, are examples.
As a writer, he published O Caderno do Algoz (Caminho, 2009), A Piano for Tall Horses (Caminho and Leya Brasil, 2012), In Heaven there are no lemons (Caminho, 2014). He was one of the eleven writers of the crime novel O Caso do Cadaver Esquisito (Associação Cultural Prado, 2011) and author of one of the short stories in the collection Dez Contos para Ler Setado (Caminho, 2012). In 21012, he was considered one of the writers for the future by the weekly Expresso.
In 2013, he contributed a short story to the collection Prazer da Leitura 2013, a project by Teodolito in association with FNAC.
He wrote the play Os Anjos toss thus for the PANOS project, Culturgest, 2013/14.
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