The Chekhov Technique in 6 modules and 1 project
International Training Programme
StudioChekhov Croatia
Zagreb, February 9 – 12, 2023
Module 2 – The Moving Space
Creative Individuality – Atmosphere – Play
In this module, we explore a given play’s space and world. What happens when we dive into the writer’s world and allow ourselves to be surprised by its specific dynamics, energy, language, and space?
Michael Chekhov’s concepts of “Objective Atmosphere” (“the soul of every piece of art”), “Personal Atmosphere of the character,” and “The Feeling of Ease, Form, Beauty, and the Whole” will guide us through this exploration.
Focus – Space – Personal and objective Atmosphere – Playfulness – Higher Self – Feeling of Ease, Feeling of Form, Feeling of Beauty, and Feeling of the Whole
Working material: Midsummer Night’s Dream by W. Shakespeare
Please read the play several times and choose one character and one short monologue that belongs to the character you have chosen.
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Participation
Early bird by January 27th, 2023. – 450€
Regular price by February 9th, 2023. – 480€
StudioChekhov will give away two scholarships to the acting students of the Academy of Dramatic Arts University of Zagreb.
StudioChekhov will give 50% off to two acting students from other acting schools in Croatia.
StudioChekhov will give 30% off to four professional actors from Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and North Macedonia.
Mentors
Suzana Nikolic, Croatia
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 Michael Chekhov Croatia (MCC). Ms. Nikolic’s organizational and producing credits include over a dozen international workshops concerning voice and speech work and Michael Chekhov Acting Technique. Ms. Nikolic has worked and taught professionally with the Michael Chekhov Technique for over 15 years and received the MICHA teaching certificate of completion in 2004. In 2004 she also edited the Croatian translation of Michael Chekhov’s “To the Actor – On the Technique of Acting” with its second edition in 2019. 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 performances, feature films, television films & TV serials, and radio. She has over 20 years of additional acting and voice training abroad. Ms. Nikolić taught Michael Chekhov Technique at Shanghai Theatre Academy in Shanghai, China, from 2019 – 2022. Her book The Actor of the Future was translated into Chinese and will be published in China by June 2023. Croatian translation of the same book is expected to be published in 2024 in Croatia.
Sol Garre, Spain
A graduated academic actress, director, and professor of acting and movement at the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramatico de Madrid (RESAD). She received her doctorate in 2013, at the University of Exeter in Great Britain. Her research is based on acting and the stage practice of the actor’s psychophysical training and the acting technique of Mikhail Chekhov. She is a member of nonprofit arts organizations leaders in promoting the method of Mikhail Chekhov, Michael Chekhov Europe, and MICHA USA. In 2011, Sol founded VERTICO, a non-profit arts organization whose goal is to promote continuous improvement, research, and collaboration among performing arts professionals in Madrid and abroad. She is the author of numerous professional articles about his artistic work.
Tarya Nyberg, Finland
An academic actress and musician. She graduated in music and drama from the Guildhall School in London and got her master’s degree at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. She is a double bass teacher at the East Helsinki Music Institute. She combines Mikhail Chekhov’s method in her artistic and pedagogical work for twenty years. She is a co-founder and member of Michael Chekhov Europe organizations.
Applications:
To apply, download and fill out the form and e-mail it to: studiochekhov.zagreb@gmail.com
