February 8 → 9, 2025
Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

PEDAGOGIC SUPERVISION GROUP

Joan Miró: Woman and bird at night (1947)

Forms are Masks
Masks are Forms

Figures emerging from the background

Gestures, characters, rhythms…
exercises, classes, dramatic territories…
they are all patterns
of the Poetic Body

Pedagogy is the Art of Teaching
Teaching is the Art of giving feedback

The essence of feedback is in recognizing patterns
and bringing them to awareness

The art of describing forms as they manifest

Rigorous, empathic and poetic phenomenology

Nature Patterns, Giovanni Fusetti, 2018-2022

Welcome to a PEDAGOGIC SEMINAR dedicated to the art and practice of Supervision.

The process of Supervision happens when a practitioner of a particular discipline or art, meets with a elder of the practice, in order to reflect on the work and have a perspective and a feedback from someone more experienced. Typically the “client” brings to the supervision session a case from their practice, in which they encounter a particular challenge. It can be a difficult student or group, a recurrent pedagogic hot-spot in which the teacher finds their practice not effective or frustrating, or a theoretical question around some aspects of the work. The supervisor’s task will be to highlight the various dimensions of the challenge (pedagogical, technical, emotional, theoretical, …) and support the practitioner to clarify their experience, and create new ways to face that challenge. Supervision can also involve giving feedback to the design of a pedagogic project. Supervision can happen in individual sessions or in groups.

This group session will include different ingredients:

• Case studies
• Theoretical and practical review of classes or exercises
• Consulting on the Pedagogic design of classes and projects
• Lectures on pedagogic theory
• Sharing of pedagogic experiences from the participants
• Discussion on the questions from the participants
• Exploration of the emotional life of the pedagogic process: working on the teacher’s hotspots

A WORKSHOP is essentially a practical exploration of an art. The focus is on the active experiential practice, with very little theory, always related to the unfolding of the exercises.

In a SEMINAR the practice is integrated with a strong focus on the THEORY that stands behind it. This creates a space of reflection and intellectual elaboration: a field of discussion, analysis, examples, questions and synthesis. It gives food for the mind, references, history of ideas, articulation of principles. And a space to unfold the emotional dimension of the process.

PRACTICALITIES

ADMISSION
This workshop is only open to theatre practitioners with previous experiences in the Pedagogy of Jacques Lecoq, who are actively teaching and who have trained in the past with Giovanni Fusetti.

LOCATION
VCA, Victoria College of the Arts

SCHEDULE
Saturday February 8 and Sunday February 9: from 9:30 to 5:30pm, with one hour lunch break.

HOW TO APPLY
There is no application form. To apply to the workshop, please email a letter of motivation to giovanni.fusetti@helikos.com. In your letter please share a few words on your pedagogic practice as well as your experience with movement-based theatre.
Giovanni will contact you after receiving the application. Places will be given in order of email submission.
The maximum number of participants is 14.

Giovanni Fusetti being supervised by a penguin.

TUITION
AUD 450

Once accepted, a deposit of AUD 200 is required in order to confirm the enrollment.

Please note that tuition does not include accommodation and that participants will be responsible for organizing their staying in Melbourne.

Before the beginning of the workshop the participants will receive a message outlining all practical details about the workshop.

For further information about the content of the workshop
and for APPLICATIONS, please contact Giovanni Fusetti at

giovanni.fusetti@helikos.com

For enrollment and practical enquiries please contact