https://maskarts.com/wordpress/?p=488 Theater Reviews & Commentary: Articles: Questions: dealing with masks, Commedia dell’Arte, clowns, dance, wrestling & more Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:25:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 https://maskarts.com/wordpress/?p=488#comment-459 maskarts Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:47:07 +0000 http://maskarts.com/wordpress/?p=488#comment-459 Serge sounds like a very good teacher. Just holding the mask and looking it, breathing with it will do a great deal in prepping to perform with the mask. The soul of the mask and finding it, letting it live taps into the joy of performing with masks.

]]> https://maskarts.com/wordpress/?p=488#comment-458 andrea Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:17:59 +0000 http://maskarts.com/wordpress/?p=488#comment-458 I did a Balinese mask workshop with Serge Nicolaï, a very fine performer who works at Theatre du Soleil. I had never been interested in mask work but since this was a special workshop and I love Teatre du Soleil I thought this was a great opportunity to get to know their work. The first time I attempted to put on a Balinese mask it was an old lady’s mask. Sege asked us to first look at the mask in detail. When I put it on my face I started to cry like a baby. I was convinced that this lady was full of suffering and it just made me cry and cry. Serge understood and he told me not to worry about the impro I was about to do. I swear that mask had a soul and a very old and true one.

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