Programme March-April 2021

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Our Online Theatre Academy has a lot to offer in the next months. We want to invite you to discover how the Director is improvising or how the Vertical of the Role can work as a true self-empowerment method for actors.

A new seminar series begins in March; we call it Sharing Secrets.
The Team of Teachers of the Online Theatre Academy asked Jurij Alschitz to open his treasure box as director and teacher to share his secrets – and he agreed to do so.
You may ask, why secrets? Are there not obvious tools to be learned? Yes, of course, but why actors follow Jurij Alschitz so happily, and want to work with him? Why they blossom after the first rehearsal and show most surprising results on stage? Why they need less and less instructions? Why the performance looks improvised while following quiet strict rules? Why …?

With the Sharing Secrets series, theatre practicioners have the unique opportunity to learn from the life-long international experience of a Master in theatre.

We would like to take the opportunity to send you positive energy combined with the wishes that you can realise your artistic projects in one way or another. Springtime ist coming!
Cordially yours Online Theatre Academy Team

all time specifications according to UTC+1 (Paris/Berlin time)

	Director is improvising: case study weekend master classes on methods and strategies for performance-making 05 – 07 March / 02 – 04 April / 30 April – 02 May The necessity to combine frames of the clear strategy with artistic freedom and improvisatory nature of creation is a challenge for any director … Lets second-guess our knowledge of improvisation as merely acting tool and harvest the best fruits of its philosophical, cognitive and artistic possibilities to enrich the feast of directing visions, techniques and methods. Dr Olga Lapina
	Team of Teachers’ Talks 13 March 2021 at 12:00 FREE EVENT! Join via ZOOMLINK Each month, the Online Theatre Academy’s Team of Teachers discusses a new topic: The Director on the tightrope We plan to investigate the multifaceted challenges for directors balancing human and artistic values, and invite you for discussion.
	Sharing secrets
	The Art of Analysis We are as far from understanding the play and the role as we are from understanding the world around us. And yet the analysis of the play, the role or the text is a necessary matter. It is an Art, but it can be quite simple. There are just a few rules you need to know… Dr Jurij Alschitz The Art of PLAY Analysis 14 + 16 + 18 March 2021 from 14 – 16:00 The Art of ROLE Analysis 22 + 24 + 26 March 2021 from 14 – 16:00 The Art of TEXT Analysis 28 + 30 + 31 March 2021 from 14 – 16:00
	Improvisation beyond acting lecture- seminars on 18 March / 15 April from 10 – 11:30 Our discussion will include theory on improvisation both as an artistic tool and as an artistic world view, and will open a space for you to define the meaning of improvisation yourself – in the most useful way for your everyday theatre practice. Dr Olga Lapina
	The Vertical of the Role weekly from 25 March – 27 May from 17 – 19:00 The self-preparation of the actor. This method shows the way to the philosophical spiritual core of the character, challenging the actor to create and engage as an independent artist… Exercises, thought provoking tasks and individual coaching will guide your personal creation of a monologe. Christine Schmalor Die Vertikale der Rolle – Kurs in deutscher Sprache wöchentlich vom 24. März – 26. Mai, von 18 – 20:00
	The handbook is available at our BOOKSHOP
	Sharing secrets The Art of Composition 5 + 12 + 19 April from 14 – 16:00 Composition in contemporary theatre is not just a technical form, but also a living one: it breathes, speaks to us and conveys the content of the play and the idea. The largest percentage of the success of a performance is based on a brilliant, dynamic composition of the director. With this practice-oriented course, you can expect to learn a number of things beyond general school knowledge: about the many different types of composition, about secrets of montage and energy management, and how to approach theatre from a compositorial point of view. Dr Jurij Alschitz
	Due to the great demand last year Jurij Alschitz offers again: Basis of Holistic Theatre: Theory – Methodology – Training The application of the holistic principle in theatre requires in practice a change of consciousness and anchoring in a holistic mode of perception. This course is about the unity of the Theatre and its diversity – the complexity of so many facets. THEORY – 27 + 29 April at 14 – 16:00 METHODOLOGY – 04 + 06 May at 14 – 16:00 TRAINING – 11 + 13 May at 14 – 16:00