Sergey Ostrenko  

Sergey Ostrenko is a Russian director and teacher working in professional theatre over twenty-eight 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.

Workshop Overview

The workshop is open to performers from different creative genres and techniques. Participants will have opportunity to become acquainted with Ostrenko method. Physical training is the core of the workshop programme. The process will develop in the form of various practical exercises which progress from simple to compound. Gradually the group will proceed to group improvisations and structures. 
Participants will explore physicality as the principal creative instrument of a performer, as the key to form, style, atmosphere and emotional palette in contemporary performance.