Jurij Alschitz
The.Director’s.Tools
we moved this whole course online – your chance to participate whereever you are
Introduction
11 February 2024 from 15-18 (UTC+1)
Intensive course
21 – 25 February from 10-14:00 (UTC+1)
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For directors, theatre educators, actors and playwrights, |
Get knowledge and inspiration from a Master
This course is about the instruments of directing, i.e. the underlying methodology for all artistic decisions. Talent and imagination need to be realised with professional tools. That is why the director must undertake an in-depth text analysis, as the basis on which to work with actors.
Jurij Alschitz will pose many questions and tasks to the participants and open up the text as a source of energy. What does the composition of a scene, the play, the planned performance look like? Already we come across many compositions: composition of themes, of facts, of events, of atmospheres, of relationships and conflicts…. How do I build the network, the cosmos of events? How do I recognise and deal with open and hidden events? How do the lines of the events of the various characters intersect? Only on this basis can I decide on my rehearsal strategies and develop tasks for actors.
If we take a closer look at the text, we enter the world of words, which follow their own laws. How do the threads of individual words weave themselves across the whole play? How do I prepare the actors for the labyrinth of words? Or is it the pauses? What happens in the empty spaces? Perhaps they are the real carriers of meaning? Does the scenic life take place without words? Where does the meaning emerge without words?
We can look at the text, the play as a musical work – what about rhythm and melodic lines? In which genre do I want to move, how do I want to change and develop it? Which styles do I use and how are they reflected in the overall production?
The questions will multiply during this course – they are the ABC of the professional director, his tools. The individual mastery will be revealed in the finesse of their application.
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11 February 15-18:00
Introduction and tasks
21 – 25 February 10-14:00
Intensive course
online
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+49 30 612 87 274 akt.zent@berlin.de