August 1 - 28, 2008
Malpils, Latvia

Performers Village is a four-week course – production of
a performance open to professional actors, dancers, singers, musicians as well as directors, choreographers, playwrights, scriptwriters and stage designers from different countries, creative genres, techniques and styles. Film makers, photographers, body painters, mask makers and multimedia artists will also find a role in this process.

The Village programme is designed as the intensive consecutive training process of mounting the performance by Ostrenko method. As a result of practical training, discussions and rehearsals all participants will become the co-authors of the work-in-progress under the artistic direction of Sergey Ostrenko. As a component of the real process the work-in-progress will be shown to the spectator.

Course Structure
The first week is dedicated to the intensive physical training. Participants will study such methods as Biomechanics (Meyerhold), Psychological Gesture (M.Chekhov) and Physical Action (later Stanislavsky). After the preparatory phase participants will gradually proceed to the rehearsal period. During the fourth week the group will explore the inner processes and creative dynamics on the stage in the connection with the spectator.

The course will take in a secluded village traditionally known as the "theatre village". The place itself is conductive to a very detailed creative process in the group of colleagues from different parts of the world. The work-in-progress uniting artistic ideas and their creators in one common “given circumstances” will become the basis of developing the international production in collaboration with professional theatres in different countries.

The Village 08 is an opportunity for professional performers to find new devices for realization of creative ideas together with colleagues from different parts of the world.

CERTIFICATION

Participants who successfully complete the course have opportunity to receive the Certificate of Participation and the video supplement of the Village 08 process.

REGISTRATION