Delya Messadi, Denmark 2022
After completing a Bachelor in Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics in the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland, I pursued my studies at the Copenhagen School of Performing Arts where I immediately connected to the field of Movement Psychology. During my studies, I undertook a research on the Externalizing Drives which led to a rediscovery of the Super Objective and its function in the dramatic scene. A thesis was born out of this research and sparked my interest even further. I now assist Lars Henning at CISPA in the teaching of Movement Psychology and the Laban/Malmgren character analysis table as well as Theatre History. I am also striving to broaden the international scene in Copenhagen and have recently produced a multilingual Shakespeare at a festival.
Conation for connection
How much can we guess of one’s motives just by observing what vessels do arrive at their destination and on what frequency?
We might have been looking at this from the wrong angle; it is not a mere response to one’s reality that is externalizing, it is a response that has a precise target. And that target, is more often than not, its very source. This workshop attempts to replace linear thinking of intentionality by a more holistic approach where cause and consequence tend to merge.
This is the dramaturgical tension between Character Problem and Super Objective.
A character attends, decides and adapt within the intending implied in that tension. Through a poetic discussion and exploration of the system, I invite you to challenge the setting of one's character's Super Objective in order for the actor to viscerally connect to it and trigger the necessity for communication. How do I manifest myself in a world that inevitably and intricately affects me? How does it affect individual character work but also scene and group dynamic?