The Art of Acting and Creating; Michael Chekhov Europe Training; 20 - 26 August 2015, Groznjan, Croatia

[Yana Meerzon]

The Art of Acting and Creating
Michael Chekhov Europe Training
Module IV:
Communion with the Audience
Giving – Receiving – Sharing
20 - 26 August 2015, Groznjan, Croatia

“What is it that we in the theatre give? Instead of images on canvas or in the form of statuary or music, we give our body, voice, feelings, will, imagination – we give a form of pulsating art to life itself.” (M. Chekhov)
Whatever we create on stage, we are creating not for ourselves but for others: for the audience. We want to give.
If you create a production or a theatre piece – what are your intentions and aims? What are the questions of your audience? What do you have to give them? Does your technique help you to meet the needs of your audience? Are you happy to give? Are you generous?
We will work with these questions “on the floor”, which means: exploring them through physical action.
There will be one lecture on how one can use MC theory of acting in dramaturgy by Yana Meerzon, a co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov (2015).
The participants are coming from different countries around Europe. The meeting of different cultural backgrounds and the common desire to investigate, to inspire and to learn, create a very unique atmosphere of the AAC workshops.
We will work on:
Radiating and Receiving – Listening – Objective – Physical articulation – The Voice of the Ensemble – Attitude and Gesture – Complicity – Generosity
Please learn a short monologue or scene from the play “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” by Bertolt Brecht.

Faculty
Suzana Nikolic, Zagreb, Croatia
Cynthia Ashperger, Toronto, Canada
Hugh O’Gorman, Los Angeles, USA
Ulrich Meyer–Horsch, Hamburg, Germany
Jesper Michelsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Yana Meerzon, Ottawa, Canada
www.michaelchekhov.eu<http://www.michaelchekhov.eu/> // www.michaelchekhoveurope.eu<http://www.michaelchekhoveurope.eu/>


Suzana Nikolic
is a full time professor at the Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb (ADA, UZ). She is a Founder and Artistic Director of Performing Arts Etra and STUDIO CHEKHOV.hr.
Ms Nikolić’s organizational and producing credits include over a dozen international workshops, most concerning voice and speech work and Michael Chekhov acting technique. She produced the M. I. Fornes play MUD, directed by fellow MICHA faculty member Scott Fielding and staged at ZeKaEm, Zagreb in 2004.
Ms Nikolić has worked and taught professionally with the Michael Chekhov Technique for over 15 years and received the MICHA teaching certificate of completion in 2004 when she edited Croatian translation of Michael Chekhov’s To the Actor – On the Technique of Acting.
For ADA, UZ she was Vice Dean for International Affairs from 2004-2006, and Head of Voice and Speech Department from 2006–2010.  She graduated from ADA, UZ in 1988, and was a Fulbright scholar at NYU–Tisch School of the Arts, Graduate Acting Program (1998/99).
She is an award-winning actress with credits in theatre performance, feature films, television films & serials, as well as radio, and has over 20 years of additional acting and voice training abroad.

Dr Cynthia Ashperger
graduated at Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb, Croatia, where she had extensive experience in theatre, film and television industry as an actor. She holds a PhD from University of Toronto’s Graduate Centre for Studies in Drama.
Ms Ashperger teaches acting technique and directs productions at Ryerson Theatre School since 1994 where she is also the Director of Acting Program since 2004. She has published and lectured on Michael Chekhov’s Acting Technique all over the world. 2008 she published a book on Chekhov’s Acting Technique titled The Rhythm of Space and the Sound of Time.
In 2013 she was nominated for a Dora Award for outstanding female performance in Feral Child by J. Tannahill. In 2013 she directed Tender Napalm by P.Ridley for Summerworks theatre festival to critical acclaim.

She has presented and taught workshops in Croatia, the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Spain, Korea, Japan and Canada.



Hugh O’Gorman
is an actor, director and writer active in professional theatre for 25 years; for the past 10 years he has been the Head of Acting at California State University Long Beach where he oversees the BA and MFA actor training programs. He has an ongoing acting class in Los Angeles, The Praxis Studio.
Hugh has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway and at over a dozen of the nation’s most respected Regional Theatres and Shakespeare Festivals. He is a founding member of New York City’s Mint Theatre Company (2002 Drama Desk Award).
Television: HBO’s multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning John Adams, for CBS Still Standing, That’s Life, and for NBC The 10th Kingdom, Law & Order and ER. Film: Killers, Upstate, The Bend.
Hugh is the author of the book “The Keys to Acting”, a workbook for university-level non-major acting classes. Hugh earned his BA from Cornell University and MFA in Acting from the University of Washington.

Ulrich Meyer-Horsch
is an actor, director and artistic director of Michael Chekhov Acting Studio Hamburg.
He has been performing and directing in German state and regional theatres for more than 20 years: Theater Kiel, Theater Lübeck, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Altonaer Theater, Komödie Düsseldorf and Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, among others.
Ulrich has worked with artists such as Simon McBurney and Complicite, Augusto Boal and Yoshi Oida. As an award winning director he is known for his playful productions of the works of Bertolt Brecht. He has been appointed Associate Artistic Director of Kreuzgangspiele Feuchtwangen for 2014 to 2016.

Ulrich holds diplomas in Acting from Schule für Schauspiel Hamburg, and in Theology, Philosophy and Theatre Pedagogy from the Universities of Heidelberg, Hamburg, London (King’s College) and Kiel.

He studied with Michael Chekhov’s former students Hurt Hatfield, Deidre Hurst du Prey, Mala Powers and Joanna Merlin as well as with Chekhov teachers from Germany and Russia. In his approach to the Chekhov Technique he incorporates the exploration of children’s games and work with masks. Since 1994 he has been teaching throughout Europe, Russia, Brazil, the US and Taiwan. He is a member of the international faculty of MICHA, New York.

Jesper Michelsen
is director, acting coach and artistic director of Glad Teater, Copenhagen.
Originally trained as an actor, over the last ten years Jesper has been working mostly as an acting coach, director, dramaturge and producer in many different projects. He holds a BA in theatre studies and pedagogy from the University of Copenhagen. Jesper studied the MC Technique with MICHA (USA) and has been working with it in various workshops and programmes since 2003, teaching MC Technique alone or combined with Meisner- and other techniques.
He is the co-founder of Glad Teater, a professional theatre and acting school for people with handicaps in Copenhagen. His special interest alongside training actors is the use of the body and the imagination in human development and creativity.

Dr Yana Meerzon
is an Associate Professor at the Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa. She has completed a study on Michael Chekhov’s acting theory and pedagogy A Path of the Character: Michael Chekov’s Inspired Acting and Theatre Semiotics, in 2005.
GENERAL INFORMATION

PLACE, DATE & COSTS

Place:             Groznjan, The Academy of Dramatic Arts
Date:               Thursday 20th – Wednesday 26th August 2015
From:              10.00h – 17.00h (incl. 1 hour break) (two free afternoons)
We ask participants to arrive at latest on Wednesday afternoon (August 19) and leave on Thursday morning (August 27). There will be a reception and introduction evening on Aug.19th at 21.00h at the facilities of the Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Working language:   English / Participants can act in their own language

Costs
Application before July 15th, 2015  € 420,--
Application after July 15th, 2015      € 450,--
Participants from Croatia and non-EU-countries can apply for a grant / discount (only limited number). Housing and food are not included.
Accommodation: We can arrange an accommodation for you in a dormitory per about 25 € per a day. It is usually two or three bed-room, there are only some single bed-rooms available. Please, let us know what is more convenient for you or whether you would like to have private accomodation which costs from 30–50 € per day.
Eating in Groznjan: There are four restaurants where you can eat all kind of food (pasta, meat, fish, pizza – all available at reasonable prices).
Currency in Croatia: Croatian Kuna (Kn) / Exchange rate: 1 Euro = 7,7 Kn

HOW TO GET TO GROZNJAN
TRIESTE (Italy) – GROZNJAN (1 hour driving by car or bus)
If you fly to Trieste, you need to go from the airport to the bus station in Trieste and take the bus to BUJE in CROATIA!
ZAGREB – GROZNJAN (3 hours driving by car or bus)
If you fly to Zagreb, go from the airport to the main bus station in the city, and take the bus to BUJE (5 minutes driving from Groznjan) or UMAG (20 minutes driving from Groznjan).
Here is the schedule:
TRIESTE – BUJE
15.30h 16.30h One way ticket price – cca 20 €
ZAGREB – BUJE
22.30h 03.00h One way ticket price – cca 30 €
ZAGREB – UMAG
Buses leave from Zagreb at: 00.30h / 01.15h / 06.30h / 15.15h / 22.30h
It takes 5 hours driving to get to Groznjan! One way ticket price – cca 35 €
You will be picked up in BUJE or UMAG, just make sure to let us know when and where you are arriving. Good idea is to have your mobiles with you and send SMS whenever needed to 00 385 98 335 695 (Suzana).

HOW TO APPLY
Please fill in the application form (see last page) and mail it to:
suzana at adu.hr<mailto:suzana at adu.hr>
OR send it via fax to the following number:
+385 1 4828 508
OR send it by ordinary mail to:
Suzana Nikolic, Baboniceva 37, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Applications will be registered once the application form has been received and the fee is paid. Your place will be confirmed by mail as soon as possible thereafter. Your application is definite and irrevocable.

Payment to:
Michael Chekhov Europe e.V., Eisenbahnstrasse 21, D-10997 Berlin
Landesbank Berlin - Berliner Sparkasse 

IBAN: DE70100500000190265264
BIC: BELADEBEXXX
“AAC Groznjan 2015”
The fee is non-refundable, unless someone else fills your place (for example from a possible waiting list). In that case there will be an administrative charge of 50 €. Please make your payment until August 15, at latest.
Not later than 14 days before the workshop begins you will be sent further details concerning the training and practical matters. You will be given a receipt of your payment and a letter of completion for the workshop.
The organizers are not responsible for any claims regarding loss or theft of valuables, or in cases of accidents or illness.

CONTACT
Suzana Nikolić: suzana at adu.hr<mailto:suzana at adu.hr>  +385 98 335 695
Ulrich Meyer-Horsch: umeyerhorsch at gmx.de<mailto:umeyerhorsch at gmx.de>  +49 1773165375
Jesper Michelsen: jesperjaever at gmail.com<mailto:jesperjaever at gmail.com>  +45 21829999

www.michaelchekhov.eu<http://www.michaelchekhov.eu> // www.michaelchekhoveurope.eu<http://www.michaelchekhoveurope.eu>

All details are subject to change.

APPLICATION FORM

Communion with THE Audience
INTERNATIONAL Michael Chekhov workshop, August 2015


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I wish to register for the
International Michael Chekhov Workshop
COMMUNION WITH THE AUDIENCE
(Module IV of “The Art of Acting and Creating” Training Programme)
20 – 26 August 2015, Groznjan, Croatia

I shall pay:
€ 420, -- (application before July 15th) // € 450, -- (application after July 15th)
to the following account:

Michael Chekhov Europe e.V., Eisenbahnstrasse 21, D-10997 Berlin
Landesbank Berlin – Berliner Sparkasse
IBAN: DE70100500000190265264
BIC: BELADEBEXXX
“AAC Groznjan 2015”
The organizers are not responsible for any claims regarding loss or theft of valuables, or in cases of accidents or illness. I accept that I have to take care of my insurances, because the organizers will not insure participants.

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