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Ostrenko Performing Arts Laboratory
 

Ostrenko Performing Arts Lab (OPAL)

international practical theatre direction course
under the direction of Sergei Ostrenko

Leitring bei Leibnitz
Austria

Session I - February 22 - 27, 2010
Session II - April 25 - May 1, 2010
Session III - August 16 - 22, 2010

OPAL is the practical theatre direction course with further direction practice opportunity on professional stage - the production of the performance at the repertory theatre with professional actors.

The course is designed for advanced candidates with professional stage experience - performing arts practitioners from various genres, techniques and styles. Participants will have opportunity to learn the key principles of mounting the performance,
acquire reliable director’s toolkit for creating contemporary professional productions, improve skills and gain confidence in the director’s role.

The course will be also useful to playwrights, directors of video, film and animation, dancers, choreographers and actors interested to gain deeper understanding of the stage direction category.

COURSE STRUCTURE

The course programme includes three full-time sessions, intensive practical training, lectures, discussions, participation in conferences, as well as the distance course work by email correspondence.

The most successful candidates will have the opportunity of additional direction practice on professional stage - the production of the performance at the repertory theatre with professional actors.

CERTIFICATION

Participants who take part in the three course sessions and successfully complete all course tasks receive the Certificate of IUGTE.

Participants who take part in the three course sessions, successfully complete all course tasks and direct the final performance on professional stage with the actors of the repertory theatre receive the Diploma of IUGTE. The group of performance directors will be formed on a competitive basis. The performance production will take place in the period determined by the specific theatre.


SERGEI OSTRENKO AND OPAL

Sergei Ostrenko is a Russian director and teacher working in professional theatre over thirty years. His creative way has passed through the Cold War of the 1980s, collapse of the USSR in the 1990s, creative ordeals in the period of the interethnic tension in the Baltic and joining the New Europe. His creative work is the synthesis of the Russian Theatre School and the newest experiments in various performing arts.

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

Ostrenko Performing Arts Lab (OPAL) traces roots back to the 1980s in the former USSR when the team of professional directors, choreographers, actors, and psychologists with specialization in creativity, initiated the practical research project of performer’s training methods from traditions to contemporaneity.

Today Ostrenko has been teaching in different countries: Russia, Ukraine, Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Sweden, Austria, Malta and United Kingdom.

REGISTRATION

To submit an application, candidates should send the following materials to globtheatre@gmail.com

- letter of motivation stating the title of the course (about 250 words)
- detailed CV/résumé with dates including date of birth
- latest head shot and 2-3 additional photos in JPG format.

Places are limited and the registration will be closed once the group is formed.

COURSE FEE

1500 EUR if payment is made before January 9th.
1710 EUR if payment is made after January 9th.

The fee covers participation in the course programme - three full-time sessions of intensive practical training, lectures, discussions, participation in two conferences and the distance course tasks; accommodation in shared twin room and three meals per day.


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