Improvisation and Spontaneity in Performing Arts

The seminar under guidance of Sergey Ostrenko will introduce contemporary methods and techniques, which develop the practical skills necessary for the actor’s professional work on the stage (through movement, dance, voice, improvisations, etc.).

The work consists of 3 parts:

      Part I
Warming-up – breathing exercises. The system of exercises allows the proper preparation of the organism for the full-value work during the day. The practice of breathing is particularly wholesome in the morning, as it allows freeing the body of the products of working accumulated during the night and warming-up of the whole organism right up to joints. The training combines breathing, movement and attention. The principal accents during the execution are relaxation and naturalness.

      Part II
The training represents the practical investigation of methods of work with actors using different individual and group exercises:
· practical investigation of potential body possibilities;
· relaxation and awareness of the body through movement and dance;
· investigation of psychology of a human, involved in creative process; · work with characters through emotional expression of the body;
· opening of verbal and nonverbal communication possibilities;
· consciousness and spontaneity in movement;
· practical investigation of improvisation.

      Part III
Group exercises:
· Search of methods impelling the group to the spontaneous collective creative process.
· Work with psychological gesture.
· Practical investigation of concepts of emotional content and will in action.
· Space and time.
· Voice and movement.
· Transition from individual improvisation to spontaneous collective interaction;
· Composition in the space.
· Building of structure.
· Structural improvisation.