PEMART: A Stage for the Arts

Let's start from the most recent. During October and November, Pemart Artistic Director and Actress Nora Armani taught Master classes in Yerevan and Shushi by special invitation of Yerevan National Theatre and Cinema Academy Rector Armen Mazmanyan. Ms. Armani worked with a total of 62 students (45 in Yerevan and 18 in Shushi) and spent a total of 3 weeks in Armenia. "It was a great experience," said the actress, "both for the participants and for myself.  Teaching offers you an opportunity to refresh your knowledge and always be prepared for new challenges. This style of theatre training in the traditions of Peter Brook and Theatre du Soleil's Ariane Mnouchkine is a great way to help develop a new generation with a deeper social consciousness and sense of social responsibility." To read more

HELP US DO more in 2012!!

Our projects for 2012 include a Feature Film to be shot in the rural regions and border villages in Armenia and Karabagh. This will help bring attention to some of the problems these Regions (Marz) face, and will, in the short and long run, help improve local economic conditions through film production.
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Audition coaching for actors at Bergen Byspill

Bergen Byspill Artistic Director Solvei Stoutland invited Nora Armani to teach a Masterclass in audition skills for actors preparing to audition for the Den Nationale Scene. The workshop took place over a weekend. Ms. Armani works with acting exercises created by Peter Brook, Ariane Mnouchkine and Complicity Theatre director Simon MacBurney as well as movement guru Monica Pagneux, with all of whom she has trained, to help free the actor of tensions and obstacles that hamper the audition process. "These exercises are foul proof ways to a relaxed and available actor, and help put the joy in acting back where it belongs," said Armani during an interview. The auditions were in Norwegian, which Armani does not speak. "It is better when you do not speak the language, as the emotional flaws and 'lies' are immediately detected when the actor has now words to hide [behind]". Solvei and Nora will be conducting a workshop on Ibsen and Physical Theatre in New York in March 2012. To read more click here.