Places must be reserved in advance until full capacity is reached. This event is aimed primarily at Dramático Professionals.
Teatro Valle-Inclán | Sala Mirlo Blanco
On the Monday before the event, detailed information and booking instructions will be sent by email to the members of Dramático Professionals. Requests will be accepted in strict order of arrival.
13 APR 2024 at 12:00 If places are available, attendance will be opened up to the general public.
Philippe Quesne will give a masterclass aimed primarily at Dramático Professionals in the next season, in parallel to the exhibition of his show The Garden of Delights.
He trained in visual arts before creating stage sets for theatre and opera. In 2003 he created the company Vivarium Studio and produced shows that went around the world: La Démangeaison des wings (2006), D’après nature (2006), L’Effet de Serge (2007), La Mélancolie des dragons (2008), Big Bang (2010), El club del pantano (2013). Since 2014, he has been directing Nanterre-Amandiers, at the Centro Dramático Nacional, where he created Le Théâtre desnegociations (2015) with Bruno Latour and his team, La Nuit des taupes (2016) and Crash Park, la vie d’une île. (2018). He designs performances and installations for exhibitions, notably including the Lyon Biennale in 2017 and 2019.
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Abroad, he created Caspar Western Friedrich (2016), Farm Fatale (2019) at the Kammerspiele in Munich and staged the opera Usher (2018) at the Staatsoper in Berlin. In 2019, his installation Microcosm won the Country Pavilion award at the Prague Quadrennial; Philippe Quesne designs the Parcours Jean-Luc Godard/Image Book at Nanterre-Amandiers. In 2020, he designed the set for shows by Gwenaël Morin, Le Théâtre et son double, and choreographer Meg Stuart, Cascade. In 2021, he created a new piece of science fiction, Cosmic Drama, at the Theatre Basel and Das Lied von der Erde by Gustav Mahler with the Klangforum in Vienna at the Wiener Festwochen.
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