"Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis" (Ovid)

How do you want to create today? 

International
Performing Arts Laboratory

 March 30 - April 04, 2007
Riga, Latvia

under the direction of
Sergey Ostrenko (Russia)

The world is tending to compression of information and acceleration of time.

Where to get new ideas?

How to find something new and interesting in creative work with specific group in specific circumstances and terms?

The International Laboratory is open to script writers, playwrights, directors, actors of dramatic, physical, musical and dance theatres, dancers, choreographers and teachers of theatre methods looking for change, transformation and the new creative turning-points in professional work.

For many years, Sergey Ostrenko has been exploring world theatre traditions and working with multicultural groups of performing artists. His approach is known internationally as the powerful method of growing cohesion and creation of live performances within limited time. Theatre teachers from Russia, Europe, America, Asia and Australia who trained with Ostrenko have been using his method in their own teaching practice.

Participants will become acquainted with the creative method developed by Ostrenko during the long-term research together with the members of IUGTE Creative Laboratory – the team of professional directors, actors, dancers, choreographers and psychologists with specialization in performing arts. The system formed under the influence of various exercises and techniques of traditional and contemporary theatre training.

The atmosphere of Ostrenko group training is conducive to exploration, demands alert involvement and personal investment in the process. It is a nurturing and challenging environment and a safe place within which to take creative risks!

The program includes intensive practical training, lectures and discussion club

Structure of the day

Practical training. Part One
Training by method of improvisation

Potential body possibilities.
Relaxation and awareness of the body through movement.
Practical investigation of spontaneity.
Awareness and spontaneity in movement.
Psychological gesture.
Transition from individual improvisation to spontaneous collective interaction.

Practical training. Part Two
From exercises to performance 

Methods impelling the group to spontaneous collective creative process.
Possibilities of nonverbal communication on the stage.
Emotional content and will in action.
Space and time.
Voice and movement.
Composition in the space.
Building the structure.
Structural improvisation.

Theoretical Part: Lectures & Discussion Club

“Director from Reading the Script to Meeting the Actors”

Each day will begin from the morning warm-up based on the ancient Chinese system of breathing exercises. The warm-up combines breathing, movement and imagination. It will help to waken and prepare the organism for the intensive practical work during the day.

The Laboratory provides a wonderful opportunity to establish news contacts with colleagues from other parts of the world, to share experiences, challenges and successes in the atmosphere of group creative process out of everyday formal professional roles, and to discover new ideas and inspiration for future creative projects!

PARTICIPANTS

Andreia Luís (Portugal)
Annika Andersone (Latvia)
Carmina Salvatierra (Spain)
Celso Carvajal (Chile)
Christian Miles (UK)
Darach Ó Tuairisg (Ireland)
Elena Fortuny (Spain)
Elisabetta Ticcò (Italy)
Esztella Levkó (Hungary)
Inese Upeniece (Latvia) 
Jorge Alberto Tovar (Turkey)
Juris Upenieks (Latvia) 
Katerina Alfimova (Latvia)
Larisa Yanina (Latvia)
Lidia Naumova (Latvia)
Myriam Ojeda-Patiño (UK)
Raitis Dziesma (Latvia)
Yves Delattre (Belgium)
Zita Valka (Latvia)

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