Antigones Erasmus Project

Project Title

Antigones

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

international theater meetings around Antigone

The exceptional circumstances linked to the Covid-19 health crisis lead to rethinking the modalities of international exchanges between students from different European countries as well as to reinventing other forms of live theater.
Choosing the character of Antigone, symbol of the struggle of youth against the established order, (the new circumstances dictated by the virus?) as the central figure of the project seemed interesting to us in so far as the old myth allows by its updating to rethink the force of the tragic. The frail young woman inflexible before the law of men, ready to sacrifice herself to accomplish what her heart dictates to her, remains a splendid symbol of resistance and hope.
Antigone under the pen of Anne Carson will be reborn in the guise of young French, Czech or Slovak. it will be the same for the other characters in the play. Vincent Goethals, stage director, ( will follow the development of the staging in the three countries. These sequences will be filmed and edited by the students in Cinema and Audiovisual Masters. The unity of this show will be ensured by music, a universal language? It is Jacques Mercier, conductor, who will ensure its production.

A. Process and Objectives
1. Preparatory work for the meetings: distribute the 6 paintings in the play, each school taking two stages.
The objective of this distribution is to multiply the interpretations of the play in order to be able, then, to reconcile them in a dramaturgical dynamic which makes sense for all the pupils of the three schools.

2.Three “in situ” meetings, one meeting in each country:
– The first would allow for an expressive and interpretive reading of the piece. The play would be divided into three parts for each school to dramatically and critically work on the text.
– The second meeting is part of a process of staging and acting proposals. Possibilities of pooling the three stagings in the perspective of a unique work.
-The third and last meeting ends the meetings with the presentation of the piece, made up of proposals from each school . A preparatory work of reflection, proposals and rehearsals is to be expected.
3.Double digital “in visu” meetings in order to offer the staging of each school and make the dramatic link between each scene.
4. The final recording will be broadcast in the various Erasmus program countries and will be presented at various French-speaking theater festivals.

B. Participants:
-3 Countries: France, Czech Republic Slovakia.
-3 senior schools: lycée Louis de Cormontaigne in Metz; Lycée Pierre de Coubertin in Tabor; Ludovis Stur high school in Trencin. More than 3000 students involved.
Participants in mobilities : 75 students from the theater clubs of the school.
– Project leader: Lycée Cormontaigne Metz, Arnaud Brossard Headmaster; Pascale D’Ogna professor.
– Theater, video and music fields.
-Company: Stage theater.
-Artists: Vincent Goethals, artistic director and Stage director: Jacques Mercier, conductor and musical advisor. The students in Cinema and Audiovisual Master of the University of Lorraine orientation: Screen arts (production and techniques, image, sound, editing).
-External partners: The Metz conservatory and the BMK space on the island of Saulcy (university theater).
-Support: Antigonick by Anne Carson.

C. Methodology deployed for project management:
-mission in place of a steering committee
-collaborative work in person and remotely
-Evaluation
-diffusion
-penetration

D. Expected results and impacts:
For the students :
-development of quality and sustainable language skills in English and French.
-cross-border openness to the Other, construction of a European citizenship and identity.
-development of digital skills.
-development of face-to-face and distance collaborative work between students.
-development of Creativity
For schools:
-develop the European dimension of each school.
-anchor the project in the school.
-dissemination of the project with repercussions throughout the school.
For teachers:
-discovery of other education systems.
-exchanges of professional practices.
-multidisciplinary work with a European dimension.
-innovation and dynamics.
-recognition of skills.

Project Website

http://www.lycee-cormontaigne-metz.fr/site/spip.php?rubrique128&debut_articles=5#pagination_articles

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 140351 Eur

Project Coordinator

LYCEE POLYVALENT LOUIS DE CORMONTAIGNE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Gymnazium Pierra de Coubertina,Tabor, Namesti Frantiska Krizika 860
• Gymnazium Ludovita Stura, 1. maja 2, Trencin