The Staged Body Workshop

  • Dienstag, 04. April 2017, 20:00 – Dienstag, 06. Juni 2017, 22:00
  • Veranstaltungsort: INKA-Theatre
  • Sparte: Theater

The Staged Body

“Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.” Hamlet, Shakespeare

Bodies surround us.
Through bodies we breath we believe – in them, we are ‘in the world’.
And quite often, we neglect them – in life and on stage.
Bodies become but props to the spoken word.

This is a course which explores the equal importance of the body, and its role in directing and expressing our physical and psychic presences on stage.
It’s about how we communicate to each other, with our bodies, with our posture, with our walk; how we say a thousand different things long before we talk.

As children we tumble and we play. As adults we pose and talk.
Sometimes in bodies we are free and happy; other times – stifled, trapped.
For better, for worse, in one form or another, they are with us from beginning to end.

It’s about exploring, through contrast and difference, the acting practices proposed by people like Laban, Boal,
Meyerhold, and Grotowski, and see if they give light to our own stage movement and performance-making today.
These we will attempt to apply to text: Song, lyric, lines of a play, prose, or poem, whatever makes us curious.
And hopefully we find ways of expression which give rich life and presence to our work on stage.

In this course, no specific experience is required, but all are welcome.
The only thing we ask for: curiosity.




Andrew is a recent arrival to Berlin, a professional actor hailing from New Zealand.
There, he worked and trained for several years with New Zealand’s longest running producer of experimental theatre, The Free Theatre of Christchurch. As part of the ensemble he helped develop several productions, as an actor and as a musician, working to offer socially-engaged and critical theatre and help rebuild some of the cultural life of Christchurch post-earthquake.

As part of the ensemble, he instructed in various workshops and theatre courses for actors and the community, both adults and children.

Weitere Infos: inka-theatre.com


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