Training as Method
An all-encompassing approach for training, rehearsal and your artistic life.
Seminar for Acting Teachers in cooperation with the Greek Academy of Dramatic Art Notos.
Directed by Christine Schmalor
Impulse lecture and closing colloquium with the author of method – Dr Jurij Alschitz
We are back on stage again to meet you in Berlin
Sunday 24 April – Saturday 30 April 2022
For our theatre education today, we need acting teachers who challenge the system, provoke it, but above all renew it constructively. For this we do not need new “systems”, but individual pedagogical and methodical thinking. Let us understand teaching and training as an Art. Teachers act as artists, constantly exploring new approaches and finding their own way of training actors to be artists.
The course “Training as Method” is a concrete proposal for teaching practice, with the aim of giving participants inspiration for new ways of teaching through the tool of Exercises. Above all, it is about the perception of one’s own profession: I create my own system through my own exercises.
“Training as method” is one of the most effective tools of artistic communication. This is achieved through a specific language of exercises that is much more powerful than wordy explanations. With exercises you can build ensembles, convey ideas and create meaning on stage. Exercises are the most useful tool for working with international productions or with newly forming groups – not only as a means of communication, but above all to create the artistic language of an ensemble.
However, exercises are much more than physical training. When Dr Jurij Alschitz developed Training as Method, he was referring to the idea of exercise in its whole and highest meaning.
Let us look at training / exercises as:
a method of teaching and studying
a method of analysis of the scene and the play
a way for actors to create a role and a way of acting
a way for directors of constructing a performance.
In the end, it leads to a higher understanding as a way of life. Exercise itself becomes a philosophy.
Our seminar will address the different aspects. Each day can be considered as a long training session that closely links theory and practice. The focus will be on inventing exercises. This starts with turning seemingly simple tasks into complex processes. We will create a methodological framework that gives you the opportunity – and the security – to never again be without a suitable task. This opens the way to the “Art of Training” for you to become free and self-reliant as a teacher.
Seminar plan
Sun 24 April | 18-21:00 | Dr Alschitz: Introduction and Exercises N°1 – This is my theatre
Mon 25 April through Fri 29 April | 10-16:00 | Schmalor: Training as Method.
The principles of exercises. Exercises for self-preparation, as tool for analysis, as the tool for creation.
Sat 30 April | 10-14:00 | Concluding Training | Colloquium with Dr Alschitz
Place:
ETI – Europäisches Theaterinstitut | Rungestraße 20 | 10179 Berlin | U+S Jannowitzbrücke
Fee / Application:
250 € / This seminar is a European cooperation project with the Greek Academy of Dramatic Art Notos, whose teachers are coming to Berlin. Therefore, we can offer this favourable price, but we only have a limited number of 4-6 places available.
Please send us a short letter of motivation with a link to your CV / homepage via our
You will be informed immediately.
Hygiene measures:
In order to make our training relaxed, we will apply the 3G rule. Adjustment according to the situation is possible. The room will be ventilated regularly and we will work largely with open windows. The room is equipped with air filters.
Contact and further information:
Christine Schmalor | akt.zent@berlin.de | +49 30 612 87 274