International Conference
Performing Arts Training Today
April 14-17, 2008
Bovec, Slovenia
"Performing Arts Training Today" is the professional conference open to performers, performing arts educators and teachers from all over the world interested in the research of topical questions and processes in contemporary performing arts education and training.
The main tasks of the conference are to demonstrate various methods and techniques in contemporary performing arts education and training, to open discussions about successful and effective strategies, to establish new contacts, to exchange experiences with colleagues from different countries and to lay the foundation for future networking and collaboration.
Participants: actors, directors, dancers, choreographers, performing arts educators, teachers, playwrights, stage designers, script writers, theatre critics, journalists and cultural managers.
PROGRAMME
  Psychophysical Training Through Movement Improvisation
Workshop presentation by John Britton - director, performer, writer and educator, Senior Lecturer in Performance at the University of Huddersfield (UK).
Reflections on the total regeneration of a  post high school, professional dancers training program
Presentation by Fay Nenander - choreographer, teacher, Senior Advisor at The Ballet Academy Stockholm (Sweden).
Carnival Arts and Its Impact on Arts  Education
Presentation by Shabaka Thompson - cultural activist, social engineer, Director of the Yaa Asantewaa Arts and Community Centre, CEO of Carnival Village based in Notting Hill (UK).
 Arts Education and the Disaffected Student
Presentation by Annie Cornbleet - teacher, education consultant, expert in Creativity and the use of Arts Education, co-founder of CETTIE - Cultural Exchange Through Theatre In Education (UK).
 "Splendid Mummer" by Lonne Elder. A monodrama on the life of the outstanding Black actor: Ira Aldridge
Presentation by Shango Baku - actor, writer, director, journalist, Artistic Director of CETTIE - Cultural Exchange Through Theatre In Education (UK).
Approaches to Movement-Based Theater
 Performance and lecture-demonstration by
Pal Bernstein - performer, instructor of physical theater, professor at Rutgers University (USA).
 Performer's Physicality:
Biomechanics (Meyerhold),
Psychological gesture (M.Chekhov),
Physical action (Stanislavsky)
Workshop presentation by Sergei Ostrenko -
theatre director and teacher (Russia).
PHOTO GALLERY
Organized by
International University "Global Theatre Experience" (IUGTE)
in collaboration with "Art Universe" and "Ostrenko Centre"
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