Organization

Organisation Mille et une scènes creates, produces, distributes professional and non-professional plays of a multi-linguistic nature (mainly French and English).

They organize workshops in acquisition of English through theatrical methodology. Theatrical language is used as a pedagogical tool to deliver multidisciplinary workshops and training.

Web: http://mille1scenes.wix.com/mille-et-une-scenes

Contact: Irene Golovine
E: inerengolovine@gmail.com
T: (0 33) 6 11 37 13 29

Project

Play:
Entitled “Mahan”: a collaborative writing project (multi-language play without subtitles).

Team:

Irène Golovine
Writer, director, actor, acting director, theater adaptation. (French citizen, currently working in France)

Mark C.Thompson
Director, acting director, scenographer, choreographer, mime. (American citizen, currently working in USA)

Hamid Reza Javdan
Director, actor, storyteller, mask. (double citizenship French and Iranian, currently working in France)

Jean François Cuvelier
Musician, sound technician (French citizen, currently working for the music conservatory of Genevilliers with whom we are planning a partnership)

Tour in Europe and USA, with a trans-national and transdisciplinary dimension

Through both public and private institutions, develop and validate a process of learning a foreign language working from a theatrically based pedagogy, through a scientific approach that integrates insights and techniques from neuroscience and cognitive science.

Dialoguing and collaborating closely and in partnership with:
Scientists in the fields of neuroscience and cognitive science (where neuroscience has a physiological focus, including the nature of neurons and the brain, and cognitive science studies the nature of the human mind);

Specialists in foreign language acquisition and studies;
Educational institutions, including elementary and middle schools, and universities: Teaching a foreign language through theatrical methods leading to workshops; pedagogical flipbooks; publications; documentaries; conferences, and so on;
Higher learning departments of language art and science, opening the possibility of research into new topics as the basis for doctoral and other theses.

They are looking for partners such as universities, scientists, researchers, schools, cultural centers that can host presentations of the play and participate in the global project.

Find more about the project here.