Physical Action in Performance Making

3-Day International Multidisciplinary Workshop

11-13 August 2023 (3 days, 15 hours workshop)

EDEN Studio *****, Berlin - Germany

The workshop is open to practising directors of the Physical Theater, Drama Theater, Musical Theater, Choreographers and Circus Directors, working in various genres, techniques, and styles, as well as actors and dancers, interested to acquire reliable director's toolkit to create contemporary professional productions. The in-class session is designed for strong, hardy, disciplined professionals and pre-professionals who are ready to participate from the beginning to the end.

This workshop is specifically designed to prepare participants for professional practice in a short time, both within the educational context and within the professional development of a performer.

The workshop is open to practicing theatre directors, choreographers and performing arts practitioners who are interested to acquire tools necessary for directors to create contemporary productions through a practical investigation of the performance making process, actors training and ensemble building.

Performers will practically explore:

- how to build up images and characters playing with the physical language of movement, relationships with space and partners;

- how to connect isolated elements into the whole performance fragments;

- how to unfold the actor’s creative nature and freedom in improvisation and spontaneity in the rehearsal process and the training.

This workshop is a simple way that can help you formulate your personal unique approach to work with actors and dancers on performance production, through the intensive practical training based on the Ostrenko Brothers Method of performer's physical training and rehearsal.

Students will be introduced to Meyerhold's "Biomechanics", M.Chekhov's "Psychological Gesture" and Stanislavsky's "Physical Action", with experienced professional practitioners, experts in performing arts pedagogy, directing and practice in multicultural groups and multidisciplinary projects - Ostrenko Brothers.

The working language is English.

SCHEDULE

11 August:

18:00 - 20:00 - Practical Training

12-13 August

10:00-12:30 Practical Training

12:30-14:00 - Lunch Break

14:00-18:00 - Practical Training

The organizer receives the right to make changes in the schedule.

CERTIFICATE

Students can receive the Certificate of Participation in this intensive training.

Evidence that you are serious about your education and professional development.

The certificate is provided after student's participation in the training and submitting the report/essay of their experience at the program (1500 words).

ABOUT NEW INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS INSTITUTE:

NIPAI is an international Institute that has been organizing workshops, laboratories and conferences for over 20 years.

Our goal is to embed professional education, multidimensional and multicultural approach of contemporary professional performance making into mainstream activity of the industry.

The aim of workshops is to explore performer's physicality through the introduction in Biomechanics, Physical Action, Psychological Gesture at the approaches of the Ostrenko brothers.

The learning content consists of: physical acting and voice training, grounding techniques, improvisation, body and sense memory, ownership of text, building a character, scene study and releasing individual acting habits.

ABOUT OSTRENKO BROTHERS METHOD:

The Ostrenkos' approach relies on the combination of practice and theory to create innovative productions. It aims at giving the performers an understanding of what they want, while also providing directors with insights into how best put on stage a new production or scene variation based on classical material.

The main advantage of the method: you will be able to get practical instructions to get results in the shortest way, using traditional and modern approaches in the analysis of physical action.

GET INSPIRED!

International theatre projects under the guidance of Ostrenko brothers took place in different countries: Austria, Belarus, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Russia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Berlin, Germany